AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Don’t miss the AHA Leadership Summit July 25-27 in San Diego. On the first day of the conference, the AHA Center for Health Innovation will present six leading solutions in the inaugural Leadership Summit Startup Competition. The startups will be selected by their ability to quantify savings or…

Building on its track record of medical innovation, the Cleveland Clinic is creating a new center for artificial intelligence designed to further collaboration and communication among physicians, researchers and data scientists. Healthcare IT News reports that the Center for Artificial Intelligence…

Amazon Web Services is working with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to test ways that artificial intelligence can simplify medical care. Bloomberg reports that Amazon recently gave the Harvard Medical School teaching hospital a grant of up to $2 million to experiment with machine learning and…

Virtual care has the potential to increase access, reduce costs and help patients make better decisions about their care as symptoms arise. Fulfilling these lofty goals may be a work in progress, but evolving telemedicine platforms are attempting to solve some of health care’s perplexing problems…

Looking for ways to increase the speed and scale of innovation efforts in your hospital or health system? Embracing innovation starts with building a culture that is nimble and accepts and encourages calculated risk. That’s why the AHA has partnered with The University of Chicago Booth School of…

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…

Partnerships among various stakeholders in the health care ecosystem will be key to successfully engaging patients in population health models, explained panelists at the recent 2019 MIT Sloan Healthcare & BioInnovations Conference in Boston. Providers who are responsible for managing health…

Walmart customers love a bargain. Now the company is hoping its employees will feel the same way about virtual care visits. The Denver Post reports the retail giant rolled back prices on telemedicine visits earlier this year from $40 to $4 for the 1 million people enrolled in its Associates’…

While hospitals and health systems are exploring virtual care models as part of their overall transformation strategy to improve access and value and reduce costs, wide variation exists in their tactics, rates of adoption and maturity levels in leveraging telehealth technology. These are some of…

Google and its Alphabet and Verily units that are targeting health care certainly aren’t thinking small. Here are several ambitious health care projects that the companies are undertaking, based on a recent CNBC report.