AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan
AHA Center for Health Innovation鈥檚 Market Scan articles provide insights and analysis on the field鈥檚 latest developments in health care disruption, transformation and innovation.
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A new partnership between CVS Health and Microsoft is designed to facilitate personalized service leveraging CVS鈥 massive data from its base of roughly 100 million customers and health plan enrollees.
COVID-19鈥檚 reset of the U.S. economy will reverberate well beyond the pandemic. For health care executives, the critical question is to what extent the business model and nature of competition in care delivery may change.
Atrium Health officials recently shared early details with Mecklenburg County Board about a planned $1.5 billion innovation district in uptown Charlotte, N.C. The nonprofit health system is seeking a public-private partnership for the 40-acre district that would be built near a planned Wake Forest鈥
With the effects of COVID-19 expected to continue for some time, providers can expect many of the trends that developed over the past two years to continue. Care delivered in alternative settings to hospitals, for example, is expected to increase considerably before the decade closes.
The recent release of the Kaiser Family Foundation鈥檚 annual employer health benefits survey put data behind a number of trends that surfaced during the pandemic. But a deeper look at the trends behind the numbers illustrates why many employees are feeling the pinch of rising health care costs and鈥
To help members reduce the significant operational challenges caused by some of these commercial payer issues, the AHA has also launched a new solution, the AHA Vitality Index.
Payers and self-insured employers, who cover more than 100 million Americans, have been rapidly developing so-called 鈥渧irtual-first鈥 health plans. Self-insured employers can鈥檛 sustain the average 6% annual health plan cost increase they have been seeing and need to find ways to better engage鈥
After announcing it had raised another $100 million 鈥 nearly doubling its capital base 鈥 startup Truveta launched its data platform for research and drug development and shared highlights from its COVID-19 breakthrough infection research.
A clinical workforce strategy has become paramount as the field seeks to address the ongoing shortages of physicians, nurses and other mission-critical positions. The recently released AHA 2022 Talent Scan from the AHA Workforce Strategy team provides a road map for addressing: resilience,鈥
In late October, the company launched Primary360, a service now being offered nationally to health plans, employers and other benefits providers. Teladoc hopes to increase access to care, particularly for those who don鈥檛 have a primary care physician, and improve quality while reducing costs for鈥