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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Intermountain Healthcare, Presbyterian Healthcare and SSM Health recently founded a nonprofit company to tackle digital transformation challenges. Dubbed Graphite Health, the venture is modeled after Civica Rx, a nonprofit drug company formed by member hospitals to address drug shortages and reduce…
In its first global report on AI, the World Health Organization recently cited concerns about algorithmic bias and the potential to misuse the technology and cause harm.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has pledged to invest $40 million over the next three years in organizations working on improving health outcomes for underserved and underrepresented communities.
Empowered by the continued rise of consumerism in health care, 60% of consumers say they would switch to another provider for more trust and respect, according to a recent Huron Consulting Group study. This is despite the fact that 75% of consumers are satisfied with their care.
Already in the early stages of a partnership with Google Cloud to develop electrocardiogram algorithms, Mayo Clinic has launched a separate two-year partnership with Google subsidiary Verily to build decision-support tools for cardiology and diabetes.
In the marathon that the COVID-19 pandemic has become, hospitals and health systems set a brisk early pace in transforming digitally. Telehealth services scaled rapidly as organizations adopted clinically integrated digital strategies and shifted how and where they deliver services. That momentum,…
In one of its largest partnerships with a payer to date, Walgreens is collaborating with Blue Shield of California to offer health care services to the insurer’s members.
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been a key component of value-based strategies like hospital-at-home and in certain specialties like palliative care, as well as managing patients with chronic diseases. Only recently have large-scale studies surfaced that measure the impact of RPM programs…
There is still a quarter to go, but 2021 already has been a year of explosive growth for Cityblock Health. The primary care startup that targets Medicaid and low-income Medicare populations has raised roughly $900 in funding since last December and is now valued at $5.7 billion.
Big tech firms, intent on disrupting health care, have hit a rough patch. Apple’s unpublicized vision of offering primary care services with company-employed physicians and clinics has stalled, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. For the second time in a decade, the Google Health…