AHA Center for Health Innovation
If you continue building, will they still come? In a nutshell, that鈥檚 what some analysts wanted Humana Inc. President and CEO Bruce Broussard to answer on a recent earnings call regarding his company鈥檚 $600 million joint venture with private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe to help鈥
The 2020 AHA Innovation Challenge aims to disrupt behavioral health care, inspire new strategies and test bold ideas that will make it easier for people living with psychiatric or substance-use disorders to obtain and afford better treatment, shatter the stigma commonly associated with behavioral鈥
The AHA has launched its 2020 Innovation Challenge 鈥 a leading competition to accelerate health care innovation. This year鈥檚 challenge asks AHA members and their partners to help make behavioral health care more accessible and affordable.
One in every five American adults are living with a behavioral health disorder. Roughly half of these people don鈥檛 receive treatment. How should the health care field respond? What can be done to improve access and affordability? Learn more from AHA's Center for Health Innovation.
The AARP鈥檚 Livability Index鈥痑cts as鈥痑 useful tool for health care organizations and communities working on innovative, place-based solutions that improve health outcomes for all, writes Shannon Guzman, senior strategic policy advisor at the AARP Public Policy Institute.
Deploying telehealth in rural areas and elsewhere to deliver care more efficiently while reducing costs and expanding access continues to accelerate. And the evidence is mounting that virtual care is delivering on these promises. This was a hot topic at the recent AHA Rural Health Care Leadership鈥
Winona (Minn.) Health is using an intelligent online exam tool built on an AI platform to automate care delivery and improve both efficiency and the patient experience for those in remote areas. Patients can access Winona Health鈥檚 SmartExam platform from Bright MD 24/7, complete an online鈥
Health care can borrow from the startup playbook, embrace new mindsets and leverage the ingenuity and compassion that define our field鈥檚 connection to purpose, writes Andy Shin, chief operating officer for the AHA Center for Health Innovation.
The latest national 鈥淔uturescan鈥 survey of health care executives found that 18% of respondents already have entered into at least three vertical partnerships with organizations in areas such as insurers and pharmaceutical companies, and another 63% are somewhat or very likely to do so within the鈥
Karen Conway, vice president of health care value at Global Healthcare Exchange, noted recently in HealthData Management that various technologies will help supply chain leaders in their organizational mission to facilitate better care at lower costs.