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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What impact is artificial intelligence having on health care? A Fast Company infographic recently highlighted some of the more interesting stats.
Walgreens Boots Alliance and McLaren Health Care, which operates 14 hospitals, are collaborating on a plan to expand pharmacy and outpatient care services throughout Michigan. McLaren will offer services ranging from retail health clinics to urgent care centers and primary care sites in select…
Expect massive vertical consolidation in health care. Payers, providers, suppliers and pharmacies will be under one corporate umbrella. Health insurance as we know it will largely be replaced by subscription-based plans that provide patients with unlimited telehealth consultations along with…
Innovation labs and centers of excellence continue to take shape as health care organizations look for ways to speed delivery system transformation and control costs better. Partners HealthCare, the Boston-based nonprofit and physicians’ network, became the latest to step up its activity in this…
As the primary care field continues to undergo rapid change and hospitals and health systems experiment with new business models to improve access, reduce costs and boost patient satisfaction, care delivery models are evolving. Some large employers — Apple, Intel, Amazon and others among them —…
Efforts are accelerating to spur funding and rapid development of innovations to drive health care transformation, and budding entrepreneurs are some of the primary beneficiaries.
Acadia Hospital, Bangor, Maine, a nonprofit acute care psychiatric hospital employing more than 30 psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, has helped rural hospitals in the state and as far away as Indiana bridge this critical gap in ED services with videoconferencing technology.
Through the third quarter this year, U.S. health care companies are topping all other business areas in venture capital funding, according to a report from PitchBook.
For the second time in less than a month, the Department of Justice has approved a megamerger between leading players in the health insurance and pharmacy worlds. The DOJ said it will allow the $69 billion merger of CVS Health with Aetna once the insurer sells its Medicare Part D business, which…
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health and GE Healthcare are partnering in a five-year, risk-sharing program designed to achieve $1 billion in savings and improved patient care across the 14-hospital system.