AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Market Scan
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- September 22
4 Lessons for Navigating a New Reality | Children’s Hospitals, Startups to Create Digital Solutions to Transform Care - September 15
Innovation Collaborative Delivers Valuable Insights on Evaluating Technology | Pandemic Could Trigger Changes in Commercial Health Plans - September 1
Specialist and Private Practices Take Severe Blow During Pandemic | Market Share Up for Grabs as Telehealth Players Look to Go Public - August 25
Forecasting Shifts in Strategic Priorities amid COVID-19 | A Road Map for Maintaining Essential Surgery During the Pandemic - August 18
3 Considerations for Restarting Surgical Service During the Pandemic - August 11
Virtual Care’s Post-COVID-19 Future Comes into Focus | How Can You Address Increasing Demand for Behavioral Health Services? - August 4
Hospitals Work to Ensure Patients a Safe Return for Needed Care | Pandemic Could Reshape Physician Practice Landscape, Pay Models - July 28
Health Care Faces Financial Challenges During the Pandemic | Intermountain Healthcare CEO Shares Takeaways from COVID-19 | ‘Automated Hovering’ App Helps Manage COVID-19 Patients at Home - July 21
Will Machine Learning Help Health Care and Policymakers Solve the Pandemic? | Walgreens and Amazon Step Up Efforts to Disrupt Primary Care - July 14
How to Check the Pulse of Your Digital Behavioral Health Efforts - July 7
Leverage These AHA Tools to Enhance Your COVID-19 Response Efforts - June 30
Is Your Telehealth Program Built for the New Health Care World? | Penn Medicine’s COVID-19 Sprint Innovations Provide Key Lessons - June 23
Repurposing Knowledge Accelerates Health Care Innovation | New COVID-19 Early-Warning System Will Debut in July | AHA, AVIA Launch Assessment for Behavioral Health Digital Strategy - June 16
Shared Risk May Be Key to Future Growth Opportunities | COVID-19 Reshapes How Hospitals Will Address Next Pandemic | Pathfinder Tools Provide On-Demand COVID-19 Information - June 9
Stakeholders Target Health Disparities During Pandemic | Could We See $250 Billion in Care Virtualized? | Digitally Enable an Effective COVID-19 Behavioral Health Strategy - June 2
Consumer Attitudes Changing on Accessing Care Remotely | Providers Team Up To Expand PPE Production | Business Community Steps Up to Help Providers Respond - March 17
Hospitals Prepare for Influx of Patients with Coronavirus - March 10
It May Be Time to Reassess Your Consumer Digital Interface | Alexa Can Now Answer Questions about 1,500 Most-Prescribed Drugs | Dissecting Health Care’s Disruptors - March 3
Growing List of Competitors Targets Physician Practices - February 25
Ready to Advance Your Innovation? Check Out the AHA Fund | Snapchat Is Ready to Disrupt the Health Care Conversation - February 18
Hospitals Make Progress on Value-Based Payment Models | What’s Behind Humana’s Expanding Investments in Senior-Focused Clinics? | Make Behavioral Health More Accessible: Are You Up for the Challenge? - February 11
Studies: Telemedicine Pays Dividends in Rural Health | Leveraging AI to Provide a Rural ‘Retail Medicine’ Experience - February 4
Assessing the Changing Face of Strategic Partnerships | Technologies to Fortify Your Supply Chain | CVS Health Upends the Diabetes Drug Market - January 28
Check Your Blind Spot as You Address Disruptive Changes | Google Cloud Faces Headwinds in Trying to Win Over EHR Companies | Virtual Primary Care Gets a Major Boost from Cigna | How Hospitals Are Paving the Way to the Future - January 21
Providers Cut Costs, Better Engage Patients | Leaders Come Together with Updates on Health Care Transformation | Payers Push to Slow Disease Progression | Major Tech Deal to Drive Telehealth Integration - January 14
The Age of Consumer Empowerment Begins in Earnest | Alphabet’s Verily, Walgreens Hire New Clinical Leaders - January 7
The Story Isn’t Finished but Early Chapters on Disruption Have Been Written - December 17
Millennials Speak Up About Their Health Care Expectations | Fitbit Forms Its First Partnership with Medicaid Plan | Strength of Partnerships to Determine Walgreens’ Future - December 10
Tap These AHA Resources to Prepare for Changes in 2020 and Beyond - December 3
Assessing AI’s Potential for Care Delivery - November 19
Removing Health Care Inefficiencies One Link at a Time | AHA Digital Pulse Pilot Will Help Hospitals Benchmark Performance - November 12
Forecast Calls for Extension of Healthy Years | New AHA Tool Helps Frame Problem Solving for Big Challenges | New Market Entrants Haven Healthcare and Fitbit on the Move - November 5
More Big Market Transformation Moves in Store Next Year | What’s Trending in Digital Health? There’s a Podcast for That. | Future-Proof Your Career: Become an AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellow - October 29
On-demand Virtual Care Is Rising . . . and So Are Consumer Expectations | AHA and AVIA Form Strategic Alliance to Speed Digital Transformation | Look for CVS to Expand in Chronic Care Management - October 22
Consumerism, Population Health Drive Demand for Data Sharing and Transparency: Are Providers Ready? | How to Implement a Successful Telebehavioral Health Program - October 15
Surveying the AI Health Care Landscape | Civica Rx Delivers First Generic Drug | Walmart Looks to Roll Back Costs on Employee Health - October 8
Amazon’s Customer-first Focus Could Reshape the Pharma Supply Chain | It’s Time to Get Back to the Basics on Social Determinants - October 1
Innovative Devices Engage Patients in Their Health — at Home and on the Run | Amazon Takes First Step into Virtual Primary Care - September 24
New AHA Report Demystifies AI and Implementation | Scenario Planning for The AI-Enabled Health System - September 17
Consumers Buy into Genetic Testing Kits | Set Your Strategy with Help from AHA Annual Survey Database | Need a Deal on MRI or CT Scan? Grab a Coupon - September 10
Global Digital Health Startup Activity Near All-time High | Fitbit Takes Next Step into Care Management | Need Help with Your Digital Transformation Strategy? - August 27
Investor Appetite Remains Strong for Digital Health Startups | Gain Insight, Take Action with AHA’s New Data Viz Tool | Machine Learning Project Targets Advances to Improve Patient Care - August 20
Health System Venture Funds Place Their Bets on Innovation | UCHealth Launches a Real Conversation Starter Using AI - August 13
The Buzz: 9 Key Takeaways from the AHA Leadership Summit - August 6
Six Promising Startups Worth Watching | Is It Time to Partner with Retail Pharmacies on Service Expansion? - July 30
Could Emerging Sensors Revolutionize Wearable Technology? | A Chance to Disrupt the Clinic-based Dialysis Market | Machine Learning Could Speed Drug Development - July 23
Market Expands for Teaching Value-Based Care Imperatives | To Drive Your Telehealth Strategy, Answer One Simple Question | AI Image Recognition Moves from Radiology to Pathology - July 16
Mhealth: improving patient engagement | Virtual care gets a boost at NY - July 9
Fulfilling AI’s promise | AI vs. process automation | Providence St. Joseph buys into innovation - June 25
Using TV to reach your doctor | App detects behavioral health crises | Impeding innovation - June 18
Integrating behavioral health | Get your innovation up to scale and up to speed - June 11
Win the consumerism challenge | 7 steps to organizational well-being - June 4
Combining wearables, AI | Tap into patients’ social needs in one minute | Protect your IP - May 28
Optimizing precision care delivery | Plan to disrupt | Digital innovation’s cost - May 21
Risk-based contract progress slows | Why Amazon bought PillPack | Are you future-ready? - May 14
3 innovation mistakes leaders make | Put nurses on your innovation team | AI reports go live - May 7
AI 2020 | Telehealth at heart of new Humana plan | 6 startups for inaugural accelerator class
Article Archive
Sep 22, 2020
Strategy and innovation leaders from hospitals and health systems across the country recently came together to share lessons learned and plans for the future as the field moves from response through recovery and on to rebuilding. The virtual “Navigating a New Reality” program Sept. 14-16 from the AHA Center for Health Innovation and the Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development generated a wealth of insights for health care leaders.
Sep 22, 2020
The recently created KidsX Accelerator program will bring together 32 pediatric hospitals from across the globe to partner with digital health startup companies to meet the unique needs of pediatric patients and their families.
Sep 15, 2020
Experts from the AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Innovation Collaborative, a cohort of leading organizations that convene regularly to share best practices and solve common challenges, recently shared the following insights on how they approach technology evaluation.
Sep 15, 2020
While commercial payers and employers are finding their own ways of dealing with this new COVID-19 normal, it’s important for hospital and health system leaders to stay abreast of how the upheaval in these sectors may ultimately impact provider organizations.
Sep 1, 2020
Published last month, the first of a three-part survey report from The Physicians Foundation paints a sobering picture of the existential threat the pandemic has posed to many physician practices.
Sep 1, 2020
After demonstrating the value of virtual care for routine primary care services, telehealth startups are rapidly diversifying services and forming strategic partnerships to expand market share.
Aug 25, 2020
Nothing has tested health care providers’ mettle to be more nimble, efficient and responsive than COVID-19. And now, with the future anything but clear, strategic thinkers, consultants and tech gurus have begun to reimagine the field’s future and what opportunities lie ahead.
Aug 25, 2020
To ensure that health care organizations, physicians and nurses remain prepared to meet these demands to care for patients who undergo recommended essential operations, the AHA along with the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists and Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, released a Joint Statement: Roadmap for Maintaining Essential Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic.
Aug 18, 2020
Deferment of medical care during the pandemic has had negative consequences for patients and providers. And even now, with most states lifting restrictions on so-called elective surgeries, the issue of how to quickly and effectively restart these services could bring unintended consequences.
Aug 11, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Americans to rapidly and without warning pivot to telehealth at levels exponentially higher than before the pandemic. So, what’s next?
Resources
Behavioral Health Integration
Framework for hospitals and health systems to shift focus to overall health and bring together behavioral and physical health services into a fully integrated system of care.
Evolving Care Models
Framework for hospitals and health systems to assess their current capabilities to determine the best type of value-based care for the organization.
Telehealth Strategy
Tools for hospitals and health systems to assess their digital transformation strategy and expand telehealth services into integrated virtual care models.
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