AHA Center for Health Innovation
Fund managers now target companies addressing health equity with solutions aimed at increasing access and improving outcomes for historically underserved and marginalized communities. Some are assessing the diversity of fund managers and allocating a percentage of funds to companies owned by Blacks…
In a move to support its primary care strategy and in an apparent response to competitors like Walgreens and Walmart, CVS Health says it will accelerate its acquisition of physician practices and clinics.
A Physicians Foundation survey published this summer found that 61% of practitioners report having often experienced feelings of burnout due to the pandemic — a sharp increase compared with the organization’s 2018 data.
A new partnership between CVS Health and Microsoft is designed to facilitate personalized service leveraging CVS’ massive data from its base of roughly 100 million customers and health plan enrollees.
Matt Kelly and Marc McLaughlin, partners with the innovation and strategy group, Do Tank, dive into some tools and concepts that explore the application of empathy mapping, design sprinting, storytelling, strategy canvases and other cutting edge approaches to creatively impact quality improvement,…
COVID-19’s reset of the U.S. economy will reverberate well beyond the pandemic. For health care executives, the critical question is to what extent the business model and nature of competition in care delivery may change.
Atrium Health officials recently shared early details with Mecklenburg County Board about a planned $1.5 billion innovation district in uptown Charlotte, N.C. The nonprofit health system is seeking a public-private partnership for the 40-acre district that would be built near a planned Wake Forest…
With the effects of COVID-19 expected to continue for some time, providers can expect many of the trends that developed over the past two years to continue. Care delivered in alternative settings to hospitals, for example, is expected to increase considerably before the decade closes.
The recent release of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual employer health benefits survey put data behind a number of trends that surfaced during the pandemic. But a deeper look at the trends behind the numbers illustrates why many employees are feeling the pinch of rising health care costs and…
To help members reduce the significant operational challenges caused by some of these commercial payer issues, the AHA has also launched a new solution, the AHA Vitality Index.