AHA Center for Health Innovation
As we all work to reduce cost and improve value; deliver superior outcomes; create new innovative delivery models; and develop new strategic alliances, there’s great opportunity for innovation.
The AHA Center for Health Innovation has released a set of resources on disruptive innovation in the health care market designed to help leaders better understand new market entrants’ challenges to traditional business models and ways to respond to these developments. The tools focus on the major…
Megan Callahan, who has a strong background in health information technology, has been hired by the ride-provider Lyft to boost its mission of helping customers get to their medical appointments. Callahan worked most recently as chief strategy officer for the revenue cycle-management firm Change…
Hospitals and health systems will need to develop a more proactive and innovative mindset and invest more money if they plan to develop and deploy cutting-edge tools such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and voice-based programs that will shape digital transformation. These are some of…
The health care field is transforming. New entrants and unique partnerships are accelerating this transformation. Hospitals and health systems are preparing for the future by investing in innovative technologies and cultures. Teams, technology and data will spur the advancement of care coordination…
These 10 events, forces and trends — based on the collective insights from leading health care experts — should be on the radar of hospitals and health systems in 2019 as they prepare for a full and robust year of disruptive innovations from new market entrants and vertical integrators.
Amazon has introduced a new cloud-based software service that reportedly will sift through patient medical records in seconds searching for actionable intelligence to provide hospitals and physicians with clinical decision support and coding while reducing costs. Amazon Comprehend Medical can…
It took nearly a year to complete the transaction, but CVS Health has closed on its acquisition of Aetna, creating what many analysts believe will be a transformational force in health care.
In a move that signals its decision-making will be data-driven, the joint health care venture by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase has hired Dana Gelb Safran, senior vice president of enterprise analytics at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
All of health care is undergoing rapid transformation as organizations accelerate innovation efforts, explore partnership opportunities and other options for improving care delivery and cost reduction. But rural providers may face special challenges due to limited resources and — surprisingly — may…