AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

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New entrants are seeking ways to provide a better care experience through consumer-driven, innovative approaches. The AHA Center for Health Innovation's Disruptor Framework identifies three market forces driving the disruption of legacy hospital and health system business models and classifies…
Some of the nation’s most innovative companies have launched initiatives large and small to disrupt health care’s status quo. The aim: to deliver better health care in more cost-effective and efficient ways in locations that are easily accessible, affordable and more desirable for consumers to use…
Five health care enterprises, including two national insurers, Spectrum Health of Michigan, Accenture and a medical-services staffing firm, will deploy blockchain technology in a new pilot program designed to simplify physician credentialing. ProCredEx, a new company backed by Hashed Health, which…
Amazon Web Services is continuing its rapid push into health care by adding three more HIPAA-eligible services to its machine-learning tools, including a speech-to-text offering that that will automatically create transcripts from provider-to-patient calls.
The rapid rise of telehealth services has spawned a new academic fellowship at Jefferson Health, which includes Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University. Working in partnership with the telehealth company Teladoc Health, Jefferson Health's telehealth academic fellowship includes a…
Like a lot of employers in and out of health care, Genesis Health System has focused on its employee-wellness program to improve the health of its staff and cut costs. And it's achieving some uncommon levels of success, as a recent case study from the AHA's Value Initiative demonstrates.
Educators, innovators and organizations from across the biomedical and technology spectrum met recently at the Exponential Medicine 2018 conference to explore the future of health care.
Seemingly everyone agrees that consumers should have a stronger voice in value-driven health care and how benefit plans are designed. What hasn't been clear, until now, is how to ensure this. The Health Care Transformation Task Force, a consortium of well-known payers, providers, purchasers and…
Once the CVS Health-Aetna merger is officially completed (expected to be around Thanksgiving), the retail chain will turn its attention to opening its first "health hub" concept stores early next year.
Leading health care organizations will share their success stories at the AHA Executive Forum in Chicago, Dec. 3-4. The AHA member-exclusive event will include presentations on a broad range of innovation projects.