AHA Center for Health Innovation
At the Summit’s inaugural Startup Competition, attendees met and judged six finalist teams chosen for their practical and tactical solutions from applications submitted by more than 50 organizations. Members of each team discussed the problem they were trying to solve, how their solution worked and…
It’s getting tougher to find a retail pharmacy chain that isn’t expanding deeper into providing web-driven digital health care services. Rite Aid became the latest, saying it will launch telehealth kiosks with InTouch Health’s virtual care platform at 25 of Rite Aid’s East Coast RediClinic Express…
AHA Center for Health Innovation Announces 2019 Innovation
Challenge Winners
Writing recently in the research journal Nature, two experts from Northwestern University’s bio-integrated electronics department and the director of a Chicago based research lab, noted that millions of early versions of sensors, computers and transmitters woven into flexible films, patches,…
In a move that eventually could disrupt the dialysis market, CVS Health recently began a trial for its HemoCare device to determine whether it is more convenient and effective than clinic-based treatment. HemoCare uses an artificial kidney device to simplify dialysis for home-based patients.
Google’s DeepMind, the artificial intelligence arm of Alphabet Inc., has shown promise in predicting the shapes of proteins, the building blocks of disease. A recent Bloomberg report notes that this could lead to more rapid development of drugs.
The AHA's Center for Health Innovation, joined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hospital Improvement Innovation Network and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Safety Program for ICUs, recognized seven state and allied associations for their accomplishments in…
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare recently spun off a new company, Castell, to help providers and payers accelerate their transition to value-based care. The nonprofit company will share best practices from Intermountain’s prevention-focused Reimagined Primary Care delivery model and offer a…
It seems simple, but hospitals and health systems looking to expand their telehealth capabilities and services must first answer why telehealth is a solution for their organizations, patients and communities, said Kevin Curtis, M.D., medical director of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Center for Telehealth and…
Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and med-tech computational pathology startup Paige say they’ve developed a clinical-grade artificial intelligence model to detect cancer in tissue slides with near-perfect accuracy.