Investing in Innovation - California Health Care Foundation

Investing in Innovation
From ending the opioid crisis to making care affordable for all, solving health care's most intractable challenges will require innovative solutions. Through direct investments, grants, and partnerships, CHCF helps innovations succeed and scale in the safety net.

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

AVIA, Public Health Institute

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.

CHCF Invests in Docent Health to Improve Maternity Care Coordination in Medi-Cal

Investing in Innovation, Maternal Health

CHCF's new program-related investment in Docent Health will help the company's technology-enabled maternity care coordination platform serve more birthing people enrolled in Medi-Cal.

November 18, 2020

Webinar — Remote Patient Monitoring Innovation Showcase

Investing in Innovation, Telehealth

November 18, 2020

This virtual showcase event featured companies whose technology solutions make scalable, effective, and culturally responsive remote patient monitoring possible for health care organizations serving the safety net.

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.

Concert Health Aims to Scale Collaborative Mental Health Care

January 30, 2020

Behavioral Health, Investing in Innovation, Telehealth, Workforce

Patients served by small and rural primary care physicians may benefit from a remote version of this increasingly popular model for providing mental health care.

Technology’s Emerging Role in the COVID-19 Response

Melissa Buckley

Investing in Innovation, Medi-Cal, Telehealth, Workforce

Technology companies supported by the CHCF Health Innovation Fund are working on ways to harness their existing technologies to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

Tech Company Unites Unlikely Allies in Bid to Fix Social Safety Net

December 13, 2019

Investing in Innovation

More health systems are recognizing the role of social factors in driving poor health outcomes, and a growing number are taking steps to address them.