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How Hospital Food Can Fuel Sustainability Efforts
Learn how hospitals are embracing plant-based menus to offer healthful meal options and reduce carbon emissions.
Grapefruit Health Targets a New Way to Address the Field’s Workforce Shortage
Ballad Health in Johnson City, Tennessee, recently completed an interesting pilot to improve communication around medication adherence. It worked with Grapefruit Health, a startup focused on addressing health care’s staffing shortage by creating a workforce solely comprising clinical students.
4 Takeaways from Aspen Ideas: Health Conference
More than 1,000 health care leaders and change-makers convened last week at Aspen Ideas: Health. An AHA panel discussion, “Deliver Care Anywhere: Rewriting the Site of Care Playbook,” explored how health systems are pairing their expertise in care delivery with consumer-oriented practices.
Survey Finds Common Challenges to Innovation Efforts
Only 16 percent of business leaders responding to a recent Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey said that their company has been very or extremely effective in its innovation attempts to date. And while the survey wasn't targeted specifically to health care, it illustrates the challenges all fields face in achieving innovation goals.
Pandemic Could Reshape Physician Practice Landscape, Pay Models
More than half of independent physicians reported concerns about whether their practices will survive during the pandemic, according to a recent McKinsey & Company survey.
3 Ways 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Health Care
Many hospitals have centralized 3D facilities for point-of-care manufacturing. The FDA has approved hundreds of medical products made with 3D technology. Three areas impacted are implants and prosthetics, anatomical models, and medical equipment.
CVS Health, Others Make News at J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference
CVS Health is rapidly incorporating Aetna into its business and will open the first in a series of concept stores in February in the Houston market to test its consumer-centric retail engagement model that can target Aetna’s members. Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health unveiled a second $150 million health care venture fund. And health care providers shared cost-cutting strategies as they try to improve the affordability of health care.
Humana Names First Participants in Hospital-Improvement Program
Humana has selected the first four participating organizations in its hospital-improvement program, which focuses on general acute-care hospitals and ways to better integrate care for Humana members. The participating organizations include: Cleveland Clinic Florida; Jackson Health System in Florida; TriHealth in Ohio; and the WellStar Health System in Georgia.
What Health Care Could Look Like a Decade from Now
Expect massive vertical consolidation in health care. Payers, providers, suppliers and pharmacies will be under one corporate umbrella. Health insurance as we know it will largely be replaced by subscription-based plans that provide patients with unlimited telehealth consultations along with wellness, fitness and nutrition information.
It’s Time for Holistic Patient Care
Treating the whole patient — both mind and body — in a well-coordinated system has become essential to health care’s mission. But integrating behavioral health into every aspect of patient care and coordinating and connecting with community resources across all points in the care continuum often prove challenging, research shows.