AHA Center for Health Innovation
Snapchat, the popular social website, is ready to test its reach in health care. The company will launch a new set of tools and custom content centered around mental health and wellness. The new feature, Here For You, provides in-app support for those who may be experiencing a behavioral health or…
We profile four major new investor types: private equity, venture capital, health plans and large employers along with a representative sample of recent investments and partnerships. Several of the deals by private-equity firms and health plans are billion-dollar acquisitions. Expect further…
As health system leaders look at the physician-practice merger and acquisition activity in their local markets and reassess their own physician alignment strategies, they need to answer questions about their strategic physician partnership needs, local market dynamics, their organization’s value…
The next Age-Friendly Health System Action Community will commence March 25 and run through October, offering free monthly webinars and an in-person meeting to help hospitals and health systems integrate “age-friendly” health care.
This report provides an overview of current trends in physician–practice ownership models and their driving forces, lessons from nontraditional physician-practice arrangements, and implications for hospitals’/health systems’ organizational strategies, physician relationship strategy and provision…
Physician-practice acquisitions and/or equity investment by such nontraditional players as health plans, private-equity investors, venture capitalists and large employers is an increasing trend. These new entrants give physicians new options for where and how to work. In the shift to value-based…
In this podcast, Jay Bhatt, AHA chief medical officer, and Andy Shin, chief operating officer of the AHA Center for Health Innovation, discuss major trends for 2020 and beyond as health care organizations build teams to advance clinical care and drive innovation.
The 2020 Industry Pulse Report from Change Healthcare, a technology company that provides data and analytics solutions to improve clinical and financial outcomes, found payers were far more likely than providers to have migrated to value-based care strategies. The survey drew from a sample of 445…
If you continue building, will they still come? In a nutshell, that’s what some analysts wanted Humana Inc. President and CEO Bruce Broussard to answer on a recent earnings call regarding his company’s $600 million joint venture with private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe to help…
The 2020 AHA Innovation Challenge aims to disrupt behavioral health care, inspire new strategies and test bold ideas that will make it easier for people living with psychiatric or substance-use disorders to obtain and afford better treatment, shatter the stigma commonly associated with behavioral…