AHA Center for Health Innovation
On the heels of New York's top financial watchdog expressing alarm over the proposed $69 billion merger between CVS and Aetna, the drug store chain's CEO has begun a more public campaign to lay out the company's strategy for achieving $750 million in savings.
Intermountain Healthcare's new Kem C. Gardner Transformation Center will house programs to improve care quality while reducing costs for the nonprofit health system. In one of its first ventures, the center will partner with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives to collaborate…
The American Hospital Association is looking for your ideas to help shape the 2019 AHA Innovation Challenge.
The AHA and its Institute for Diversity and Health Equity with support from the Aetna Foundation today announced the launch of a national program dedicated to closing gaps in health equity.
Despite the technical and feasibility challenges faced by artificial intelligence in health care, venture capitalists are betting that positive results will come sooner than later. Private equity investments in AI health care startups are soaring.
Accenture is working with Merck and Amazon Web Services to build a cloud-based informatics platform for life-sciences collaborators. Meanwhile, Deloitte and Vineti announced that they will work together to build a cloud-based, precision-medicine platform.
mHealth Intelligence reports that a yearlong Humana telehealth study that has yet to be published found that physicians with a virtual care platform prescribe fewer antibiotics than they do for in-office visits and are more discerning about tests and follow-ups, resulting in more effective…
Carle — a central Illinois-based integrated health system that includes hospitals, a physician group and the health plan HealthAlliance — used design thinking to develop a new set of health plan offerings to better engage millennials.
David Shulkin, the former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, will become chief innovation officer and a strategic advisor at Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, S.D. He will focus on research and Sanford's Imagentics, Chip, Profile and World Clinic.
The new Apple Watch Series 4 — billed by the company as an "intelligent guardian for health" — can detect falls, take electrocardiograms and show nutritional information.