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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Advancement in any health care organization is rarely linear. And innovation doesn’t happen without a mindset shift and significant change. This may seem intuitive, but it’s a leap many executives never quite make, opting instead for safer, incremental progress. That won’t cut it if you’re intent…
Digital innovation may be a necessity for health care organizations, but it’s coming at a steep price. Modern Healthcare’s most recent Power Panel survey of top CEOs found that more than a third of the 26 responding CEOs said their organizations spent between $5 million and $19.9 million on digital…
The days of shared-risk, value-based contracts (VBC) dominating health care are seemingly just around the corner. But that reality may not materialize as quickly as some envision, based on results of the 9th Annual Industry Pulse Survey recently released by Change Healthcare and the HealthCare…
To understand what’s really driving Amazon's moves in pharmacy, it’s important to know the back story of Amazon’s $750 million-plus acquisition of PillPack, an online pharmacy for most medications that consumers can get from their local drugstores. PillPack sorts all of a customer’s medications by…
Technology is transforming how the world works. Automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping the roles humans hold, and the responsibilities we carry out. While this shift creates uncertainty, it also creates opportunity for organizations that are open and adaptive to new…
Building and leading a culture of innovation is no easy task. But, in a time of disruption and transformation, it’s a critical activity for health care leaders. They undoubtedly will face challenges along the way, but they can avoid these three common mistakes, which were shared in a recent AHA…
Nurses regularly tackle clinical and operational challenges in innovative ways as they go about ensuring the best care for their patients. But, often the impact of their innovations are limited to the patients they care for directly. Not including nurses in enterprisewide innovation initiatives is…
Hardin Memorial Health in Elizabethtown, Ky., has become the first health system to implement IBM Watson Health Imaging’s artificial intelligence-powered software, Patient Synopsis. The program, trained by radiologists, integrates with and draws information from a health system’s existing platforms…
Sixty faculty members from Partners HealthCare — the Boston-based system that has been at the forefront of exploring artificial intelligence — recently identified 12 emerging AI technologies with the greatest potential to impact health care as soon as next year. The team identified its “Disruptive…
While many health plans offer virtual care services, these services typically have suffered from low utilization. By making virtual care the centerpiece of this plan design, Humana hopes to drive up usage while driving down costs.