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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Walgreens Boots Alliance, which has long struggled to cement its place in primary care services, plans to invest $1 billion to collocate in 500 to 700 VillageMD stores and, over the next five years, to offer full-service doctors’ offices. More than half of the locations will be in Health…
Provider organizations face workforce challenges ranging from training and retraining to finding the most effective ways to engage and protect staff. This will require reassessing issues like workforce resiliency, thinking innovatively about workforce shortages, transitioning to a team-focused…
Digital health funding in Q3 surpassed the record-setting second quarter this year and totaled $9.4 billion, the venture capital firm Rock Health reports. The sector’s influx of capital is being fueled in large part by rising consumer demand for access to remote care and health care providers’…
Hospitals and health systems can expect sharp declines in commercially insured patients due to job losses in the pandemic economy, which likely will fuel a rise in Medicaid, exchange and uninsured patients. To a large extent, how effectively and aggressively provider organizations are able to…
Some health insurance reimbursement changes that helped fuel virtual care’s rapid rise during the early months of the pandemic are being eliminated. Health insurance giants UnitedHealthcare and Anthem are revising their telehealth reimbursement rules in ways that will increase patients’ out-of-…
Want to know how long it will take to clear the backlog of postponed surgical procedures due to ordered shutdowns during the pandemic? A newly revised AHA resource, “COVID-19 Tools: Forecasting the Pandemic’s Spread and Planning for Recovery,” includes links to two new online calculators to do just…
A recent report, “Journey Toward the Next Normal,” from the Providence Digital Innovation Group provides some answers and examines the role that technology and digital health will play in achieving this transformation.
The pandemic has fueled a huge spike in telehealth services this year and the growth is just beginning, according to the 2020 State of Telemedicine Report from Doximity, the nation’s largest physician network.
To help you understand how AI is meeting today’s challenges and shaping the health care field’s work, the American Hospital Association and Microsoft have teamed up to offer a unique free course, “AI in Health Care: Leading Through Change.”
Strategy and innovation leaders from hospitals and health systems across the country recently came together to share lessons learned and plans for the future as the field moves from response through recovery and on to rebuilding. The virtual “Navigating a New Reality” program Sept. 14-16 from the…