AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan
AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Market Scan articles provide insights and analysis on the field’s latest developments in health care disruption, transformation and innovation.
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The landscape is littered with failed ventures from well-intentioned, well-funded startups that set out to overhaul the employer-sponsored health care system. But the recent formal launch of Transcarent, a Silicon Valley health tech firm planning to transform employer-sponsored benefits, bears…
Continued focus on developing digital health tools that increase access and improve the patient experience again has led Providence to spin out one of its innovations. The nonprofit Catholic health system’s Digital Innovation Group recently launched DexCare Inc., a new digital health company.
Confidence in value-based arrangements has grown during the pandemic, notes William Shrank, M.D., chief medical officer at Humana.
After studying how supply chains broke down during the pandemic’s early days and talking with affected health care executives, physicians, engineers and others, Hannah recently outlined in Harvard Business Review steps health care organizations can take to create a more resilient PPE supply…
Ambulnz, a provider of mobile medical services and patient transportation, recently announced plans to go public through a merger with Motion Acquisition Group, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
U.S. hospitals and health systems increasingly are addressing the inextricable link between affordable, good-quality housing and optimal health as a way to promote community well-being. Hospitals’ efforts to address social determinants of health can have a far-reaching positive impact on patients…
Providers will have to access consumer behavioral health data and have the ability to apply advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to enable preventive interventions, predict early onset of behavioral disorders, recommend interventions to improve behavioral health outcomes and tailor…
With hospital-at-home programs gaining momentum during the pandemic, some of the largest providers in this space are joining forces to push for expanding the way home-based services are financed. Amazon Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Ascension and several home-based health companies recently…
The Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas has been working with Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), an independent collaborator, to use social needs data to identify women who are economically vulnerable and face challenges accessing care and may be at an elevated risk for…
Predictive modeling has helped hospitals and health systems project clinical outcomes, enhance workflows and identify patient preferences, but this tool may also give leaders better intelligence to forecast finances amid this year’s economic uncertainties.