AHA Center for Health Innovation

With virtual care services rapidly expanding and investments in telehealth companies soaring, Avera is selling its clinician-to-clinician telehealth business Avera eCare for an undisclosed sum to Aquiline Capital Partners, a private-equity firm.
If there is a silver lining in the pandemic, it’s that it rapidly accelerated hospital-at-home programs. HaH programs can sharply reduce costs while maintaining quality and safety levels and lowering readmissions with improved patient experience.
Leaders from Houston Methodist’s DIOP team — Digital Innovation Obsessed People — outlined during the AHA’s recent virtual Leadership Summit how they evaluate, prioritize and implement digital solutions throughout the system.
Buried deep within immense volumes of health care data are clinical insights waiting to be unearthed to improve treatments, cure diseases and better serve communities. Now the race is on to scale data from across many organizations to achieve this goal and to make it easier to search and analyze.
Under a new partnership, the Innovation Institute’s innovation incubator will work with robotic process-automation company Olive to co-develop and commercialize new products using Olive’s automation tool set. The products will be targeted to address problems identified by clinicians, back-office…
Disruption just keeps coming in the primary care sector. Denver-based startup Everside Health Group, which offers a nationwide in-person and virtual primary care platform, is going public.
Hospital leaders need to be aware of the national movement toward a new blood culture contamination benchmark. View this webinar to learn more about the impact that blood culture contamination has on both patient care and hospital costs, and hear our evidence-based solution and best practices to…
Walgreens has begun identifying locations for the first of 600 on-site clinics adjacent to its stores in 30 markets that will open in partnership with VillageMD over the next four years. Houston, El Paso and Austin are among the Texas cities that will be home to 29 Village Medical at Walgreens…
During the height of the pandemic, McKinsey & Company issued a startling projection that as much as $250 billion of U.S. health care could become virtualized. A new McKinsey report notes that two-thirds of the office visits and outpatient care that they forecasted would be delivered virtually…