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Idaho’s First Hospital-at-Home Program Showing Promising Results

The St. Luke’s Hospital at Home program, launched in late 2024, provides hospital-level care to patients in the comfort of their homes.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

CVS Concept Stores to Open in 2019, Focus on Cutting Medical Costs

Once the CVS Health-Aetna merger is officially completed (expected to be around Thanksgiving), the retail chain will turn its attention to opening its first "health hub" concept stores early next year.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

6 Takeaways from New Forecast of Health Care’s Future

Optimizing workforce retention, recruitment and development will be critical over the next decade as hospitals and health systems adjust to what is expected to be a changing landscape in patient volumes, higher-acuity levels, increased length of stay and preferred sites for care delivery.

CMS Announces Savings in First Year of Home Care Demonstration

Participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s Independence at Home demonstration saved more than $25 million in the payment model’s first performance year while delivering h

Hospitals and housing

Wellness and well-being are inextricably linked to the social and economic conditions of people’s lives.

Information exchange portal closes the gap between health system and social services

In Dallas, as in many cities, frequent users of emergency services often face underlying social issues.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Hospital-at-Home Gains Momentum with Added Flexibilities, New Entrants

The hospital-at-home model is expanding concepts of where and how acute medical care can be delivered. Hospitals can “admit” qualified patients into their homes, where they receive acute, hospital-level care through a combination of telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and in-person visits.

Medical Devices Made Better

What’s your blood pressure? Do you check it yourself at home? Terrific, if you do! But how do you know if your device is reading your pressure accurately?
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

COVID-19 Didn’t Stop Health Care Disruptors from Moving Forward

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic turbulence last year, some of America’s largest companies were forced to reexamine their strategies to disrupt health care in an effort to reduce costs, increase access and forge stronger bonds with consumers. Some, like Amazon, CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart, added to the number of their early brick-and-mortar primary care locations to serve their customers or employees.

Investing in healthy cities

What does it mean for a health system to invest fully in its community?