Collaboration & Partnerships
Providers and insurers have been working together for years to align incentives on payment and quality, but Delaware-based ChristianaCare and Highmark Health Options are taking their relationship a step further. They鈥檝e established a 10-year deal to create a new for-profit joint venture company鈥
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System developed and implemented a framework connecting clinicians with laboratory professionals, which improved collaboration, removed process waste, improved patient outcomes and resulted in process efficiencies.
AHA and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), a non-profit member organization for sharing cyber threat intelligence and best practices, released a joint white paper to help senior health care leaders understand and respond to certain cyber risks to their enterprise鈥
AHA is looking for hospitals and community partners to advance health equity. Applications for the 2021 Hospital Community Collaborative Cohort are now open.
William Shrank, chief medical officer, Humana, explains how payer-provider partnerships help advance patient care and value-based care models.
A report issued by the group last month, the 鈥淣ational Dialogue for Healthcare Innovation,鈥 provides a framework for how hospitals and health systems, public health, government leaders and others can work together during future crises. The wide-ranging report addresses three primary areas in which鈥
HCC program cohorts feature teams from around the country. This page features background information and stories about their work.
By leveraging the health care ecosystem, hospitals and health systems can form powerful partnerships and integrate to solve significant pain points or inefficiencies and deliver the highest quality of care and patient experiences. The AHA Center for Health Innovation can help.
In part two of this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Jay Bhatt, D.O., AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer, and Maurice Jones, president and CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, continue their discussion on social determinants of health and how collaborations between鈥
In this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Nancy Myers, AHA vice president of leadership and system innovation, speaks with health care leaders from Washington state and Ohio to discuss the results of community collaboratives with public health departments, hospitals and health systems, and other鈥