AHA Center for Health Innovation
In late October, the company launched Primary360, a service now being offered nationally to health plans, employers and other benefits providers. Teladoc hopes to increase access to care, particularly for those who don’t have a primary care physician, and improve quality while reducing costs for…
Continuing its push to expand its retail clinic offerings, Walmart Health has hired Ochsner Health System’s David Carmouche, M.D., as senior vice president of Omnichannel Care Solutions. Carmouche, who will begin his new role at the end of the month, had been executive vice president of Ochsner…
Community investment Series, otherwise known as place-based investment, helps create the social and physical environments that support community health over the long term.
Videos of health system leaders discussing how their organizations are working with key stakeholders and using community investment to improve individual and community well-being and advance health equity.
The Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), a coalition of about 40 large private and public employers including Walmart, Disney, Costco and Microsoft, recently launched EmsanaRx, a nonprofit PBM. Meanwhile, billionaire Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company is another PBM that launched recently.
The recent acquisition of RubiconMD by Oak Street Health will enable the value-based primary care disruptor to add virtual specialty care to its service offerings.
In a move designed to help patients more easily navigate their care, LifePoint Health has signed a five-year strategic partnership with tech startup Loyal to deploy its new artificial intelligence (AI) multi-experience platform across its 80 hospitals.
During the program that kicked off last week’s HLTH conference, AHA leaders, provider organizations, health tech and business executives shared insights into how to move the needle as the field transforms in a post-pandemic world.
Walgreens Boots Alliance is still honing its strategy, but recent moves indicate the company appears ready to go all in on health care. The retail pharmacy giant recently launched Walgreens Health, a new division created for all its health care assets, including its majority holdings in VillageMD…
Walmart recently partnered with the consumer-facing health care platform Transcarent to provide low-cost prescription drugs, telehealth, optical and other services to self-insured employers.