{
  "id": 8769303,
  "title": "Weekly Rundown: Rutgers, RWJBarnabas Health tap AWS for new innovation hub; Luma Health launches new agentic outreach workflows",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/weekly-rundown-rutgers-rwjbarnabas-health-tap-aws-for-new-innovation",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-20T19:12:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fierce Healthcare",
    "slug": "fierce-healthcare",
    "url": "https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/weekly-rundown-rutgers-university-rwjbarnabas-health-aws-partner-innovation-hub-luma"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health unveiled a new collaborative innovation hub reliant on Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday. The Rutgers/RWJBarnabas Health Innovation Hub aims to empower students to work alongside clinicians, researchers and tech experts on projects lasting four to ten weeks. The hub's inaugural teams, composed of up to five interdisciplinary groups, will focus on areas like clinical decision-making tools and student wellness. The university's future School of Medicine will benefit from this partnership, as students will not only learn about future healthcare but actively create solutions that can directly impact real patients in communities across New Jersey, according to Amy Murtha, the founding dean of the school. Meanwhile, Luma Health, an operational healthcare AI platform, expanded its agentic outreach workflows through its navigator agent, introducing new capabilities such as referral scheduling. Luma's navigators have already saved over 130,000 hours in 2026 by reaching patients through their preferred communication channels and ensuring timely appointments. Hello Patient, an agentic AI company, acquired Converse Health, a firm specializing in AI workflow automation. This acquisition will enhance Hello Patient's front-office operations by incorporating AI agents that handle tasks like referral and fax intakes, authorization paperwork, records, and registration. Hello Patient's CEO, Alex Cohen, emphasized that the company's AI agents streamline interactions, ensuring every call is answered and patients' needs are addressed efficiently, thereby reducing administrative burdens on staff. Pharmacy intelligence platform Latent Health's platform has been operational at 60 leading healthcare systems nationwide, serving approximately 70 million patients. The addition of these health systems, including prominent institutions like Cleveland Clinic and AdventHealth, enables Latent to offer autonomous clinical agents designed to expedite access to high-demand and complex therapies, such as GLP-1s. Latent aims to handle more than 5.8 million patient medication journeys within the next year, addressing the challenge of ensuring patients receive necessary treatments in a timely manner by overcoming coverage rule complexities.",
  "summary": "The latest news from Rutgers University, Hello Patient, RWJBarnabas Health, Amazon Web Services, Luma Health, Vitality and more.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}