Innovation/New Models of Care
The Ochsner Health Network will start a new accountable care plan on Jan. 1 to cover about 6,600 Walmart and Sam’s Club employees in the New Orleans, North Shore and Baton Rouge areas. The deal is designed to improve the quality of care and lower overall health costs for employees from 41 store…
The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation this week released a roadmap for reinventing U.S. health care.
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.
The current behavioral health system is not fully meeting the needs of patients in New Jersey, where more than 240,000 adults live with a severe mental illness and a growing number of adults require treatment for substance use disorder. To address these challenges, five health systems have joined…
Also in this roundup of weekly health news: suicide rates are on the rise, but not for Latinos; and electric scooters are taking off, but people not wearing helmets has led to more ED visits.
The Department of Health and Human Services has extended to Oct. 12 the deadline to recommend health care leaders to participate in HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan’s Innovation and Investment Summit.
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association is looking for your ideas to help shape the 2019 AHA Innovation Challenge.
Successful collaborative took third place in the inaugural AHA Innovation Challenge.
Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan plans to meet quarterly with health care investors and innovators to discuss and receive perspectives on emerging opportunities and how the government can facilitate and accelerate innovation.