AHA Center for Health Innovation
Major transformational shifts in health care have made it difficult to visualize the path to future success. And building out an effective strategy — in which advancing innovation, making savvy technology investments and forging sound partnerships are givens — can be fraught with complexity,…
With ever-increasing frequency, academic and nonprofit health systems are opting to take part in externally run venture capital funds to test new technologies from outside startups over developing homegrown intellectual property.
It may not be ready to take on the Amazons and Walmarts of the world in pushing into the health care market, but big box technology retailer Best Buy has identified health care as a growth priority. The latest evidence: Best Buy is the first U.S. retailer to sell exclusively a telehealth device kit…
Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA compliant. The company recently launched six Alexa voice health tools built by providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers and digital health coaching companies that allow organizations to securely transmit private patient information. The Alexa Skills Kit enables select…
It’s getting tougher and tougher to distinguish between insurers and providers — and even more so after Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas became the latest payer to move into primary care.
Hospital and health system executives face a reality that plagues military brass on the battlefield: how to lead, create a vision for success and inspire innovation when it’s tough to see what’s over the horizon.
Hospitals and health systems across the country are redesigning care delivery to improve quality and outcomes, enhance patient experience, and reduce costs with the ultimate goal of better population health. Testing and implementing new care delivery models that focus on prevention and better…
Even though it accounts for only 2.6 percent of overall medical claims, Telehealth usage surged 53 percent between 2016 and 2017 and continues to grow rapidly. This rate of telehealth growth surpassed that of urgent care centers, retail clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and emergency departments…
In its worst quarter since forming the Walgreens Boots Alliance with European drugstore chain Alliance Boots GmbH, the Deerfield, Ill.-based retailer says it will further expand its aggressive cost-cutting strategy, adding another $500 million in cuts to the $1 billion previously announced. The…
Even as many hospitals and health care systems continue to evaluate whether to participate in risk-based reimbursement models, some health care startups are betting their futures on it.