AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan
AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Market Scan articles provide insights and analysis on the field’s latest developments in health care disruption, transformation and innovation.
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Continuing its push to expand its retail clinic offerings, Walmart Health has hired Ochsner Health System’s David Carmouche, M.D., as senior vice president of Omnichannel Care Solutions. Carmouche, who will begin his new role at the end of the month, had been executive vice president of Ochsner…
The Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), a coalition of about 40 large private and public employers including Walmart, Disney, Costco and Microsoft, recently launched EmsanaRx, a nonprofit PBM. Meanwhile, billionaire Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company is another PBM that launched recently.
The recent acquisition of RubiconMD by Oak Street Health will enable the value-based primary care disruptor to add virtual specialty care to its service offerings.
In a move designed to help patients more easily navigate their care, LifePoint Health has signed a five-year strategic partnership with tech startup Loyal to deploy its new artificial intelligence (AI) multi-experience platform across its 80 hospitals.
During the program that kicked off last week’s HLTH conference, AHA leaders, provider organizations, health tech and business executives shared insights into how to move the needle as the field transforms in a post-pandemic world.
Walgreens Boots Alliance is still honing its strategy, but recent moves indicate the company appears ready to go all in on health care. The retail pharmacy giant recently launched Walgreens Health, a new division created for all its health care assets, including its majority holdings in VillageMD…
Walmart recently partnered with the consumer-facing health care platform Transcarent to provide low-cost prescription drugs, telehealth, optical and other services to self-insured employers.
Disrupting employer-sponsored health care can be like trying to devour an elephant. Where does one begin? Investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase has been wrestling with this issue since it launched Morgan Health four months ago as a follow-up to its failed Haven venture with Berkshire Hathaway and…
Building on the foundation it laid in 2019 with its Digital Institute for Health, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health in New York City has launched the department of artificial intelligence and human health.
Amazon Web Services has had relationships with thousands of health care startups. On Oct. 28, however, the culmination of AWS’ Healthcare Accelerator launch will give 10 recently selected startups an unprecedented experience.