Pharma companies are finding it difficult to hire data science talent—we think it’ll make AI drug discovery startups like Valo (who is going public via a $2.8B SPAC merger) attractive partners.

Nuance hooks deeper into the EHR space—but its AI voice tech alone won’t necessarily be enough to address the broad scope of clinicians’ administrative woes.

Amazon Halo launched a new feature that uses AI to track movement and build a personalized fitness plan—here’s how Big Tech can use wearables to capitalize on the growing remote patient monitoring market.

Olive and health system TriHealth are partnering to automate revenue cycle management—which can save hospitals a ton of money in denied claims, but AI RCM vendors are also focusing on digital billing to recoup hospital revenue.

Insurance incumbents struggle to introduce their own AI-powered tools—so they’ll be eyeing companies like Monogram with ready-to-deploy tools as potential partners or acquisition targets.

Despite being in the healthcare AI game for less time than its big tech rivals Amazon and Google, Microsoft outcompeted them for strongest healthcare AI tools in 2020. Around 35% of healthcare organizations surveyed said Microsoft’s Healthcare AI offerings are strong to very strong, beating out Google, Amazon, and IBM, according to the 2020 KLAS Healthcare AI report.

Rather than waiting until digital leadership kinks are ironed out in-house, some pharma giants have been merging with AI partners to speed up drug development: In 2018, Roche snapped up AI developer Flatiron Health to advance usage of its real-world evidence platform for oncology research, for instance.

And AI is being leveraged to wade through backlogs that have been mounting since the beginning of the pandemic: AI developers are creating tools that help radiologists go through and spot abnormalities in patient scans, for instance.

The news: Cleveland Clinic and IBM struck a ten-year partnership to use AI and quantum computing tech to facilitate healthcare research initiatives, like precision medicine and drug discovery. As part of the deal, Cleveland Clinic will get to install IBM’s first private sector quantum computing system.

It will enable enhanced functionality, AI, and visual fidelity as well, because of the ability to move some of the processing into the cloud with edge computing. 5G technology will also open the door for personalized training and planning. It will introduce the ability to add patient-specific data to AR/VR training modules in a way that’s optimized for an immersive format.

For context, Komodo Health offers healthcare stakeholders a suite of solutions based on its proprietary AI-powered analytics tool, Healthcare Map, which tracks over 320 million deidentified patient encounters to glean real-world insights. We spoke to Komodo Health’s CEO, Arif Nathoo, to learn more about the massive funding haul and where Komodo is headed—here’s what he told us:.

Now that Google is gaining access to HCA’s heaps of patient data, it’ll be able to improve its AI-driven tech and strengthen its grip in the EHR space. In 2020, HCA Healthcare had over 32 million patient encounters—a lot of real-world data Google can leverage to train its AI models and hone its healthcare products to perform even better.

For example, last year, Babylon teamed up with Mount Sinai to launch AI-powered diagnosis and telehealth services for millions of New Yorkers. And AI-generated symptom checker app Buoy Health is teamed up with Boston’s Children’s Hospital to identify potential causes of pediatric symptoms to guide parents to the correct mode of care.

When paired with innovations in AI, IoT, robotics, and cloud and edge computing, 5G will open the way for a serious step change in innovation.