AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan
AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Market Scan articles provide insights and analysis on the field’s latest developments in health care disruption, transformation and innovation.
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COVID-19 continues to spread throughout much of the country. Many states are experiencing spikes in cases. Media outlets report a daily total of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the virus. But the financial havoc the pandemic is wreaking on hospital and health system finances is…
For all the challenges that COVID-19 has presented, the pandemic also has created significant learning opportunities. Every day, provider organizations are innovating, forging and expanding partnerships, finding better ways to better communicate internally and externally and identifying ways to…
Monitoring confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients at home and remaining in regular contact can be a challenge, but the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) has come up with an automated text messaging system that has been working effectively.
Harvard University’s Kennedy School, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the United Nations recently collaborated on a platform to produce a decision-making tool that initially will focus on digital contact tracing of coronavirus infections. The platform, which…
he pandemic continues to take a toll on health care providers, but it hasn’t stopped disruptors like Amazon and Walgreens Boots Alliance from advancing their primary care strategies.
At the peak of New York state’s COVID-19 outbreak, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx was at the epicenter. For the behavioral health center, that meant greatly expanding its already innovative use of digital solutions to connect with its patients. This would be needed to continue to serve the…
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the AHA and its Center for Health Innovation have been diligently compiling resources and tools to help hospitals and health systems optimize performance in care delivery. And now, with COVID-19 cases rising in many parts of the country, we are sharing…
A funny thing happened on the way to telehealth’s rapid exponential rise in use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many hospitals and health systems that had been refining their virtual care services and platforms at a methodical pace suddenly had to quickly ramp up access to technology platforms and…
Like hospitals and health systems everywhere, Penn Medicine scrambled to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. But it didn’t take long for its leaders to come up with an iterative sprint process to quickly design, validate and scale much-needed services.
For all the damage that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused to the health of millions of people worldwide, the U.S. and global economies and health care provider balance sheets everywhere, it has had one significant positive impact: accelerating innovation. All of these examples of accelerated…