Innovation Landscape - California Health Care Foundation

Innovation Landscape
The Innovation Fund conducts a series of high-level landscape analyses on issues ripe for tech-enabled innovation. The Innovation Landscape Series aims to inform funders and customers in safety-net organizations seeking scalable solutions to meet their challenges.

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Innovation Landscape — Solving Shortages: How Technology Can Help Meet California’s Immediate Health Workforce Needs

Joanne Spetz, Amy Quan

Workforce, Investing in Innovation

This publication reviews the barriers to hiring providers in this specific sector of the health care system, the role of the temporary workforce, and the emergence of technology-enabled staffing companies as a potential alternative to traditional staffing agencies. An accompanying snapshot outlines data on key characteristics of vacancies, perceived recruitment challenges, and hiring of registry and contract providers.

Remote Patient Monitoring in the Safety Net: What Payers and Providers Need to Know

AVIA, Public Health Institute

Telehealth, Investing in Innovation

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a type of telehealth that involves the secure transfer of personal health and medical data to a provider for remote monitoring, care, and support. Providers, payers, and all Californians have an interest in leveraging technologies such as RPM that can assist in the management of chronic illnesses.

Innovation Landscape: Maternity Care in Medi-Cal

Investing in Innovation, Maternal Health

This paper examines the opportunities for technology-enabled innovations to improve the value and quality of the maternity care that Medi-Cal delivers.

Innovation Landscape: Telehealth MAT

Telehealth, Investing in Innovation, Behavioral Health

This brief provides an overview of the developing but nascent landscape of organizations using telehealth to deliver medication-assisted treatment.