AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan
AHA Center for Health Innovation鈥檚 Market Scan articles provide insights and analysis on the field鈥檚 latest developments in health care disruption, transformation and innovation.
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While many health plans offer virtual care services, these services typically have suffered from low utilization. By making virtual care the centerpiece of this plan design, Humana hopes to drive up usage while driving down costs.
Hoping to give a boost to startups with innovative medical technologies that show promise for improving patient care, Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University have selected six firms for their inaugural MedTech Accelerator program.
Many hospitals and health systems are grappling with how to evolve their care delivery models, and which payment models can support their transformation goals. A newly released AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Insights report 鈥 Evolving Care Models 鈥 explores the rapidly changing dynamics in鈥
Humana鈥檚 鈥淏old Goal鈥 of improving the health of seniors through better management of populations in seven U.S. cities is showing promising results, according to a recent report from the health insurer. Medicare Advantage members living in the company鈥檚 original seven Bold Goal communities have seen鈥
Major transformational shifts in health care have made it difficult to visualize the path to future success. And building out an effective strategy 鈥 in which advancing innovation, making savvy technology investments and forging sound partnerships are givens 鈥 can be fraught with complexity,鈥
With ever-increasing frequency, academic and nonprofit health systems are opting to take part in externally run venture capital funds to test new technologies from outside startups over developing homegrown intellectual property.
It may not be ready to take on the Amazons and Walmarts of the world in pushing into the health care market, but big box technology retailer Best Buy has identified health care as a growth priority. The latest evidence: Best Buy is the first U.S. retailer to sell exclusively a telehealth device kit鈥
Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA compliant. The company recently launched six Alexa voice health tools built by providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers and digital health coaching companies that allow organizations to securely transmit private patient information. The Alexa Skills Kit enables select鈥
It鈥檚 getting tougher and tougher to distinguish between insurers and providers 鈥 and even more so after Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas became the latest payer to move into primary care.
Hospital and health system executives face a reality that plagues military brass on the battlefield: how to lead, create a vision for success and inspire innovation when it鈥檚 tough to see what鈥檚 over the horizon.