AHA Center for Health Innovation
All of health care is undergoing rapid transformation as organizations accelerate innovation efforts, explore partnership opportunities and other options to improve care delivery and reduce costs. But rural providers may face special challenges. We asked futurist Michael Rogers for his thoughts…
The health care field is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Vertical integrators and new market entrants see opportunity within this environment and are seeking to disrupt the status quo. Here are twenty questions on the potential impact of disruptors on current business models for leaders…
New health care market entrants and vertical integrators are challenging the traditional business models of both hospitals and health systems. This report from the AHA Center for Health Innovation outlines the moves hospitals and health systems can make to convert that challenge into an opportunity…
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.