AHA Center for Health Innovation
OODA Health, which focuses on removing inefficiency from health care administration, and Blue Shield of California are building a cloud-based platform to provide payments to providers immediately after care is delivered. The companies will test the new technology as a pilot program with Dignity…
In their first joint initiative since forming a collaboration to drive innovation, Advocate Aurora Health and Chicago-based health technology incubator Matter launched the Health Care Tech Venture Challenge.
John Hancock, one of the nation's oldest and largest life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only what it's calling interactive policies in which individuals can regularly share their fitness and health data from wearable devices and smartphones.
On the heels of New York's top financial watchdog expressing alarm over the proposed $69 billion merger between CVS and Aetna, the drug store chain's CEO has begun a more public campaign to lay out the company's strategy for achieving $750 million in savings.
Intermountain Healthcare's new Kem C. Gardner Transformation Center will house programs to improve care quality while reducing costs for the nonprofit health system. In one of its first ventures, the center will partner with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives to collaborate…
The American Hospital Association is looking for your ideas to help shape the 2019 AHA Innovation Challenge.
The AHA and its Institute for Diversity and Health Equity with support from the Aetna Foundation today announced the launch of a national program dedicated to closing gaps in health equity.
Despite the technical and feasibility challenges faced by artificial intelligence in health care, venture capitalists are betting that positive results will come sooner than later. Private equity investments in AI health care startups are soaring.
Accenture is working with Merck and Amazon Web Services to build a cloud-based informatics platform for life-sciences collaborators. Meanwhile, Deloitte and Vineti announced that they will work together to build a cloud-based, precision-medicine platform.
mHealth Intelligence reports that a yearlong Humana telehealth study that has yet to be published found that physicians with a virtual care platform prescribe fewer antibiotics than they do for in-office visits and are more discerning about tests and follow-ups, resulting in more effective…