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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Backed by private investors ranging from former Goldman Sachs’ CFO David Viniar to BlackRock’s Larry Fink, 98point6 is melding a direct primary care subscription model with virtual care approach to give consumers a low-cost way to establish a relationship with a primary care physician.
The 2019 AHA Innovation Challenge is a juried award program to source and spread innovative technological approaches that address social determinants of health. The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as the circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work and…
Only 16 percent of business leaders responding to a recent Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey said that their company has been very or extremely effective in its innovation attempts to date. And while the survey wasn't targeted specifically to health care, it illustrates the…
After more than a decade of transforming health care for its roughly 1 million workers and huge and loyal customer base, Walmart plans to play an even larger role. Marcus Osborne, vice president of transformation and wellness for the retail giant, made that point clear in a recent talk with the…
Developing transformational strategies to achieve financial sustainability in the age of disruption is never easy, but health care leaders will get a chance to do just that alongside their peers and leading thinkers as they explore the future of health care at the AHA's 2019 Leadership Summit, July…
Kaiser Permanente last week unveiled three multimillion-dollar initiatives to create affordable housing for vulnerable populations in its service areas. The programs, which engage community and investment partners, are part of a larger strategy to improve the health of its most vulnerable…
How will Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft leverage the Azure platform and other tools to create what WBA CEO Stefano Pessina calls a “seamless ecosystem of participating organizations”?
The AHA Center for Health Innovation has partnered with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to develop “Building and Leading a Culture of Innovation,” a one-day course that will help participants answer this and many other questions on the path to creating a strategic framework to…
Digital health startup companies attracted a record $8 billion-plus in investments in 2018, reports Rock Health, a U.S. venture fund dedicated to the sector. That represents a 42 percent increase over 2017. Globally, digital health funding totaled $14.6 billion — 14 times what it was in 2010,…
Many emerging technologies are showing promise in the quest to find innovative solutions to improve care and reduce costs, but health care executives remain cautious about adoption due to lack of capital and fear of creating unintended operational burdens. This is just one of the many insights you’…