AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

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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.
A report issued by the group last month, the “National Dialogue for Healthcare Innovation,” provides a framework for how hospitals and health systems, public health, government leaders and others can work together during future crises. The wide-ranging report addresses three primary areas in which…
In this week’s Take Five conversation, the AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Chief Operating Officer Andy Shin speaks with Marcus Osborne, senior vice president of health and wellness transformation at Walmart, about creating patient-centered solutions that drive greater patient engagement and…
Providence and 13 other health systems have formed a startup to pool patient information in an effort to streamline anonymous data to improve care, find cures faster and promote more equitable treatment of underrepresented groups.
A new health economy is coming. In this reshaped sector, emerging technologies, an ability to cure, prevent and detect disease earlier along with highly engaged consumers focused on wellness will lead to a deceleration in health spending. By 2040, these trends could deliver a $3.5 trillion “…