Care Delivery
With CVS Health’s launch of several HealthHUB stores and plans to launch other outlets in Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, many have been speculating about whether the company’s strategy is now centered on primary care.
In an attempt to lower cost and improve quality, Walmart on Jan. 1 will launch a “featured providers” pilot to incentivize workers to choose higher-quality physicians. Workers who opt for the featured providers program will pay less out of pocket. If successful, the program will expand.
In what could be the first step toward a larger-scale play down the road, Amazon recently launched a pilot virtual primary care program called Amazon Care to give some of its Seattle-area employees and their families quicker access to care without the need for an appointment. Assuming the pilot…
Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, recently invested $16 million in Health at Scale, a California-based startup using machine learning to help risk-bearing entities determine the highest-quality provider and hospital at the lowest cost. Health at Scale offers a suite of services, including building…
Health care is changing rapidly. The rise of consumerism, the digital economy, precision medicine, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, new high-tech entrants to the health care sector and affordability pressures all serve as catalysts for change. And America’s hospitals and health…
It a time when groceries, taxis and other goods and services are just a smartphone touch away from showing up at consumers’ doorsteps, America’s on-demand economy is booming. And health care services are a big part of that growth. An ever-widening array of companies now provide on-demand services…
Leaders from Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Excellence Research Center suggest focusing on three sets of care delivery attributes that set top performers apart: (1) thinking beyond the hospital stay; (2) cutting inefficiency, not safety; and (3) engaging the front-line team in improving the cost-…
How will Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft leverage the Azure platform and other tools to create what WBA CEO Stefano Pessina calls a “seamless ecosystem of participating organizations”?
This presentation offers an overview of the 2019 Environmental Scan, outlining key themes and trends that the health care field is currently facing during this time of transformation. Understanding the current climate of health in America will help hospital and health system leaders to shape the…
Population health leaders come from multiple sectors and professions, but we share a common goal: to advance well-being and health equity for individuals and communities. At the 2019 ACHI National Conference, we will come together as a community of population health leaders to amplify our shared…