AHA Center for Health Innovation
Walmart customers love a bargain. Now the company is hoping its employees will feel the same way about virtual care visits. The Denver Post reports the retail giant rolled back prices on telemedicine visits earlier this year from $40 to $4 for the 1 million people enrolled in its Associates’…
All around us, we see exciting examples of bold thinking and experimentation to better serve patients. Already, many of these new models and methods are achieving positive results.
The AHA has partnered with The University of Chicago Booth School of Business to develop a new training opportunity for health care leaders, Building and Leading a Culture of Innovation. The course, which is offered in April and July, will help leaders uncover behaviors that inhibit innovation in…
While hospitals and health systems are exploring virtual care models as part of their overall transformation strategy to improve access and value and reduce costs, wide variation exists in their tactics, rates of adoption and maturity levels in leveraging telehealth technology. These are some of…
Google and its Alphabet and Verily units that are targeting health care certainly aren’t thinking small. Here are several ambitious health care projects that the companies are undertaking, based on a recent CNBC report.
The genetic testing startup 23andMe is making progress in creating new drugs. A recent report in Business Insider notes that the company now has 13 drug candidates in its pipeline.
The types of telehealth technologies are as varied as the patients that the technologies are designed to help. That can make picking the right technology difficult. Find out the best practices for vetting telehealth vendors and their technologies and what red flags to watch out for.
In 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expanded Medicare coverage for virtual services and the agency provides waivers in some alternative payment models, but more fundamental change is needed to expand payment to all geographic areas and all services that are safe to provide via…
See how hospitals and health systems use community and patient need as the starting points for new telehealth services. These examples illustrate the ingenuity of providers that have created measurable improvements in patient outcomes and savings for the health care system.
Successful hospital and health system telehealth programs don't happen by accident. As hospital and health system executives start, grow and optimize their organizations' telehealth programs, they need to answer these 25 questions to reach their clinical and financial objectives.