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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Two major players working to disrupt health rang in the new year by hiring prominent leaders to head their clinical operations.
Some of America鈥檚 largest companies have made it their business to disrupt health care. And in 2019, these six firms took significant steps to improve efficiency and make high-quality care more accessible. Here are some of their biggest moves.
Hospital and health system leaders and their boards continue to wrestle with how to engage millennials (generally regarded as those born between 1981 and 1996) in managing their health. They鈥檙e not alone. Many payers, tech companies and others allied to the field also are trying to figure out what鈥
In its first partnership with a Medicaid plan, Fitbit and WellCare of Georgia recently teamed up to provide Medicaid enrollees who have type 2 diabetes with a Fitbit device if they complete an annual diabetic retinal exam.
Even as its chief rivals, CVS Health and Walmart, continue to grow through acquisitions and by increasingly adding in-store health services, Walgreens Boots Alliance鈥檚 future will be determined by the strength of its partnerships inside and outside health care.
Hospitals and health systems are deploying artificial intelligence to transform care delivery. So, what do some of these applications look like? At the recent AHA Executive Forum in Chicago, five health systems shared ways they are addressing pressing challenges through the use of algorithms,鈥
From access to care to innovation to affordability and value to consumer engagement, 2020 will be another year of great change for health care. Hospital and health system leaders, their staffs and boards can get a jump on charting their strategic course for next year and beyond with help from the鈥
A new AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Insights report, 鈥淎I and Care Delivery,鈥 examines what hospital and health system leaders need to build a powerful AI infrastructure of people, policies, resources and technology. The report also explores ways to reimagine care delivery with AI鈥
Blockchain is a term that describes a system in which data are maintained and shared across a peer-to-peer network, rather than by a single authority. It鈥檚 most known as the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but it鈥檚 beginning to be used to improve significant inefficiencies in鈥
During the recent CB Insights Future of Health Conference, Natan Reddy, a senior intelligence analyst, asked a simple question with anything but a simple answer. What would the world look like if people began living to age 150?