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- June 23
Repurposing Knowledge Accelerates Health Care Innovation | New COVID-19 Early-Warning System Will Debut in July | AHA, AVIA Launch Assessment for Behavioral Health Digital Strategy - June 16
Shared Risk May Be Key to Future Growth Opportunities | COVID-19 Reshapes How Hospitals Will Address Next Pandemic | Pathfinder Tools Provide On-Demand COVID-19 Information - June 9
Stakeholders Target Health Disparities During Pandemic | Could We See $250 Billion in Care Virtualized? | Digitally Enable an Effective COVID-19 Behavioral Health Strategy - June 2
Consumer Attitudes Changing on Accessing Care Remotely | Providers Team Up To Expand PPE Production | Business Community Steps Up to Help Providers Respond - March 17
Hospitals Prepare for Influx of Patients with Coronavirus - March 10
It May Be Time to Reassess Your Consumer Digital Interface | Alexa Can Now Answer Questions about 1,500 Most-Prescribed Drugs | Dissecting Health Care’s Disruptors - March 3
Growing List of Competitors Targets Physician Practices - February 25
Ready to Advance Your Innovation? Check Out the AHA Fund | Snapchat Is Ready to Disrupt the Health Care Conversation - February 18
Hospitals Make Progress on Value-Based Payment Models | What’s Behind Humana’s Expanding Investments in Senior-Focused Clinics? | Make Behavioral Health More Accessible: Are You Up for the Challenge? - February 11
Studies: Telemedicine Pays Dividends in Rural Health | Leveraging AI to Provide a Rural ‘Retail Medicine’ Experience - February 4
Assessing the Changing Face of Strategic Partnerships | Technologies to Fortify Your Supply Chain | CVS Health Upends the Diabetes Drug Market - January 28
Check Your Blind Spot as You Address Disruptive Changes | Google Cloud Faces Headwinds in Trying to Win Over EHR Companies | Virtual Primary Care Gets a Major Boost from Cigna | How Hospitals Are Paving the Way to the Future - January 21
Providers Cut Costs, Better Engage Patients | Leaders Come Together with Updates on Health Care Transformation | Payers Push to Slow Disease Progression | Major Tech Deal to Drive Telehealth Integration - January 14
The Age of Consumer Empowerment Begins in Earnest | Alphabet’s Verily, Walgreens Hire New Clinical Leaders - January 7
The Story Isn’t Finished but Early Chapters on Disruption Have Been Written - December 17
Millennials Speak Up About Their Health Care Expectations | Fitbit Forms Its First Partnership with Medicaid Plan | Strength of Partnerships to Determine Walgreens’ Future - December 10
Tap These AHA Resources to Prepare for Changes in 2020 and Beyond - December 3
Assessing AI’s Potential for Care Delivery - November 19
Removing Health Care Inefficiencies One Link at a Time | AHA Digital Pulse Pilot Will Help Hospitals Benchmark Performance - November 12
Forecast Calls for Extension of Healthy Years | New AHA Tool Helps Frame Problem Solving for Big Challenges | New Market Entrants Haven Healthcare and Fitbit on the Move - November 5
More Big Market Transformation Moves in Store Next Year | What’s Trending in Digital Health? There’s a Podcast for That. | Future-Proof Your Career: Become an AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellow - October 29
On-demand Virtual Care Is Rising . . . and So Are Consumer Expectations | AHA and AVIA Form Strategic Alliance to Speed Digital Transformation | Look for CVS to Expand in Chronic Care Management - October 22
Consumerism, Population Health Drive Demand for Data Sharing and Transparency: Are Providers Ready? | How to Implement a Successful Telebehavioral Health Program - October 15
Surveying the AI Health Care Landscape | Civica Rx Delivers First Generic Drug | Walmart Looks to Roll Back Costs on Employee Health - October 8
Amazon’s Customer-first Focus Could Reshape the Pharma Supply Chain | It’s Time to Get Back to the Basics on Social Determinants - October 1
Innovative Devices Engage Patients in Their Health — at Home and on the Run | Amazon Takes First Step into Virtual Primary Care - September 24
New AHA Report Demystifies AI and Implementation | Scenario Planning for The AI-Enabled Health System - September 17
Consumers Buy into Genetic Testing Kits | Set Your Strategy with Help from AHA Annual Survey Database | Need a Deal on MRI or CT Scan? Grab a Coupon - September 10
Global Digital Health Startup Activity Near All-time High | Fitbit Takes Next Step into Care Management | Need Help with Your Digital Transformation Strategy? - August 27
Investor Appetite Remains Strong for Digital Health Startups | Gain Insight, Take Action with AHA’s New Data Viz Tool | Machine Learning Project Targets Advances to Improve Patient Care - August 20
Health System Venture Funds Place Their Bets on Innovation | UCHealth Launches a Real Conversation Starter Using AI - August 13
The Buzz: 9 Key Takeaways from the AHA Leadership Summit - August 6
Six Promising Startups Worth Watching | Is It Time to Partner with Retail Pharmacies on Service Expansion? - July 30
Could Emerging Sensors Revolutionize Wearable Technology? | A Chance to Disrupt the Clinic-based Dialysis Market | Machine Learning Could Speed Drug Development - July 23
Market Expands for Teaching Value-Based Care Imperatives | To Drive Your Telehealth Strategy, Answer One Simple Question | AI Image Recognition Moves from Radiology to Pathology - July 16
Mhealth: improving patient engagement | Virtual care gets a boost at NY - July 9
Fulfilling AI’s promise | AI vs. process automation | Providence St. Joseph buys into innovation - June 25
Using TV to reach your doctor | App detects behavioral health crises | Impeding innovation - June 18
Integrating behavioral health | Get your innovation up to scale and up to speed - June 11
Win the consumerism challenge | 7 steps to organizational well-being - June 4
Combining wearables, AI | Tap into patients’ social needs in one minute | Protect your IP - May 28
Optimizing precision care delivery | Plan to disrupt | Digital innovation’s cost - May 21
Risk-based contract progress slows | Why Amazon bought PillPack | Are you future-ready? - May 14
3 innovation mistakes leaders make | Put nurses on your innovation team | AI reports go live - May 7
AI 2020 | Telehealth at heart of new Humana plan | 6 startups for inaugural accelerator class
Article Archive
Jun 23, 2020
For all the damage that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused to the health of millions of people worldwide, the U.S. and global economies and health care provider balance sheets everywhere, it has had one significant positive impact: accelerating innovation. All of these examples of accelerated innovation share one thing in common: They all involved repurposing knowledge, notes a recent MIT Sloan Management Review report.
Jun 23, 2020
Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., has partnered with Charlotte, N.C.-based Stanson Health, a Premier Inc. company, to develop an artificial intelligence-enabled solution for tracking COVID-19 transmission. The EHR-agnostic, free, real-time surveillance app sifts through volumes of ambulatory, emergency department and other provider documentation in real time for unstructured phrases that suggest COVID-19 symptoms such as, “loss of taste,” “trouble breathing,” and hundreds of other phrases that initially might go unnoticed.
Jun 23, 2020
A new behavioral health digital strategy assessment — brought free to AHA members by a collaboration between the AHA and digital health consultancy AVIA — allows hospitals and health systems to advance the integration of physical and behavioral health with digital solutions.
Jun 16, 2020
COVID-19 has taken a catastrophic financial toll on health care providers, with an estimated $202.6 billion loss between March and June for hospitals alone. This precipitated a sectorwide downgrade by Moody’s and FitchRatings from stable to negative. Innovation within this context may mean more shared-risk opportunities vs. traditional vendorbuyer relationships, notes Andy Shin, chief operating officer for the AHA’s Center for Health Innovation, in a recent blog.
Jun 16, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to process, technology and operational improvements to enhance patient and staff safety, and many of these changes could figure prominently during the next major infectious disease outbreak or pandemic. Other changes requiring more elaborate planning will impact future hospital designs.
Jun 16, 2020
Verily Life Sciences, a sister company to Google, has launched a new set of digital tools to help hospitals and health systems provide ondemand and up-to-date COVID-19 information.
Jun 9, 2020
COVID-19 may be an invisible enemy that threatens all people, but evidence is mounting that it is disproportionately more lethal to racial and ethnic minorities and the poor as well as those with chronic conditions like diabetes. To address these disparities, hospitals and health systems and various stakeholders have been working together to find new ways to share data and develop solutions.
Jun 9, 2020
If you’re wondering how significant the long-term impact of the soaring use of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic could be on health care, a new analysis from McKinsey & Co. pegs the number at $250 billion.
Jun 9, 2020
On June 17 at 1 p.m. ET, the AHA and Avia Health Innovation will host a webinar during which experts will share how hospitals and health systems successfully have deployed digital solutions to provide access to behavioral health care treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jun 3, 2020
In the spirit of helping front-line virus fighting organizations during these uncertain times, KII Consulting Inc., in partnership with Allstate Identity Protection (InfoArmor), is offering free identity protection coverage for employees of all health care organizations for the remainder of 2020.
Resources
Behavioral Health Integration
Framework for hospitals and health systems to shift focus to overall health and bring together behavioral and physical health services into a fully integrated system of care.
Evolving Care Models
Framework for hospitals and health systems to assess their current capabilities to determine the best type of value-based care for the organization.
Telehealth Strategy
Tools for hospitals and health systems to assess their digital transformation strategy and expand telehealth services into integrated virtual care models.
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