AHA Center for Health Innovation
After more than a decade of transforming health care for its roughly 1 million workers and huge and loyal customer base, Walmart plans to play an even larger role. Marcus Osborne, vice president of transformation and wellness for the retail giant, made that point clear in a recent talk with the鈥
Developing transformational strategies to achieve financial sustainability in the age of disruption is never easy, but health care leaders will get a chance to do just that alongside their peers and leading thinkers as they explore the future of health care at the AHA's 2019 Leadership Summit, July鈥
The 2019 AHA Leadership Summit promotes a revolution in thinking among health care leaders that reflects a steady wave of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions for future success. Focusing on transformational strategies and approaches for achieving financial sustainability while delivering鈥
Kaiser Permanente last week unveiled three multimillion-dollar initiatives to create affordable housing for vulnerable populations in its service areas. The programs, which engage community and investment partners, are part of a larger strategy to improve the health of its most vulnerable鈥
How will Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft leverage the Azure platform and other tools to create what WBA CEO Stefano Pessina calls a 鈥渟eamless ecosystem of participating organizations鈥?
The AHA Center for Health Innovation has partnered with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to develop 鈥淏uilding and Leading a Culture of Innovation,鈥 a one-day course that will help participants answer this and many other questions on the path to creating a strategic framework to鈥
The AHA's Center for Health Innovation Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. ET will host a webinar for hospital and health system leaders to make sense of the various types of disruption occurring within the health care ecosystem and the forces driving this disruption.
Digital health startup companies attracted a record $8 billion-plus in investments in 2018, reports Rock Health, a U.S. venture fund dedicated to the sector. That represents a 42 percent increase over 2017. Globally, digital health funding totaled $14.6 billion 鈥 14 times what it was in 2010,鈥
Many emerging technologies are showing promise in the quest to find innovative solutions to improve care and reduce costs, but health care executives remain cautious about adoption due to lack of capital and fear of creating unintended operational burdens. This is just one of the many insights you鈥欌
CVS Health is rapidly incorporating Aetna into its business and will open the first in a series of concept stores in February in the Houston market to test its consumer-centric retail engagement model that can target Aetna鈥檚 members. Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health unveiled a鈥