UPMC Enterprises Invests in VeloSource to Expand AI-Enabled Clinician Staffing Platform
UPMC Enterprises is making a strategic investment in VeloSource with plans to further develop its AI-enabled staffing management platform.
Hospitals Are All In on AI, but Testing and Oversight Haven’t Caught Up
A new report found that while more than 90% of health systems have deployed third-party AI tools, less than half have the infrastructure to properly test and validate them before they become embedded in patient care.
Why Pharma Companies Should Look To Social Media For Better Patient Insight
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.
UPMC Enterprises’ Biopharma Lead: We are At a Tipping Point When it Comes to China
Matthias Kleinz, executive vice president and head of translational sciences investments at UPMC Enterprises, explained why biopharma companies cannot ignore China anymore.
UPMC Enterprises, Redesign Health Launch New Startup for Chronic Pain Patients
UPMC Enterprises and Redesign Health launched a new startup named Glimmer Health. The company partners with primary care providers to improve pain management using a personalized, holisitic approach.
Inside Healthcare’s Hottest New AI Category: Agentic AI
Healthcare organizations are starting to implement AI agents — autonomous, task-specific systems designed to perform functions with little or no human intervention. While initial adoption is focused mainly on non-clinical areas like scheduling and prior authorizations, experts predict that AI agents could eventually play a role in clinical decision-making, provided they meet rigorous safety and reliability standards.
7 ViVE Announcements You Don’t Want to Miss
This year's ViVE conference was full of announcements — from acquisitions to rebrands to product launches. This list compiles short summaries for seven of the conference’s most notable announcements.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Arrive Health Acquires Medication Adherence Tech from UPMC
Arrive Health (formerly RxRevu) recently acquired a suite of technology developed at UPMC. The technology suite includes an AI-powered chatbot and customer relationship management platform, both designed to support improved medication adherence and prescription capture rates.
UPMC creates telemedicine company to address shortage of infectious disease specialists
The company, which is called Infectious Disease (ID) Connect, aims to virtually connect UPMC infectious disease specialists to other hospitals.
UPMC chief innovation officer will head to Atrium Health
Rasu Shrestha, UPMC's chief innovation officer and executive vice president of UPMC Enterprises, will join Atrium Health as its chief strategy officer in February 2019.
UPMC Enterprises-backed Curavi acquires telemedicine business TripleCare
Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, the organizations said the combined company will serve almost 100 facilities in 14 states.
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Biotech startup developing carbon monoxide poisoning antidote closes $5M Series A
The Tus Science & Technology Service Group, an enterprise group in China, led the Series A round with participation from the commercialization arm of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — UPMC Enterprises.
At SXSW, UPMC’s innovation and venture chiefs tout hospitals as strategic investors
The president of UPMC's venture arm and it's innovation chief were among panelists explaining the benefits of having a hospital as an investor while asking for help from startups to transform the customer experience in healthcare.
Microsoft refocuses in healthcare, teams with UPMC on innovation
Microsoft chose UPMC Enterprises as its initial innovation partner for Healthcare NExT as the Redmond Empire takes aim at the growing influence of IBM Watson Health, Salesforce, Apple's ResearchKit and other tech heavyweights.
Here’s how University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Enterprises launches companies
UPMC Enterprises is the innovation and commercialization arm of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and it has launched about 60 healthcare companies to date.
UPMC backs cancer diagnostics startup Cernostics
Cernostics is part of the wave of oncology that looks at cancer at the tissue and cellular level instead of focusing on the location of the tumor — lung, stomach, pancreas.