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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Verato

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

Verato helps health care organizations reconcile fragmented and duplicate records to create a comprehensive view of every patient’s health and history.

Resource Center

CHCF Health Innovation Fund

From ending the opioid crisis to making care affordable for all, solving health care's most intractable challenges will require innovative solutions. The CHCF Health Innovation Fund invests in market-based solutions with the potential to improve access and health outcomes for low-income Californians.

Promise and Pitfalls: A Look at California’s Regional Health Information Organizations

Walter Sujansky

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

This report examines the various types of health information exchange resources available to provider organizations in California. It focuses on the role of nonprofit regional health information organizations and profiles the largest nine currently operating in the state.

Nomad Health

Investing in Innovation, Workforce

Nomad Health's online marketplace directly connects clinicians and medical employers, making recruiting and hiring less expensive and more efficient and transparent.

Why Medicaid Is an Untapped Opportunity for Innovation

February 13, 2018

Melissa Buckley

Behavioral Health, Investing in Innovation

Physician Andrey Ostrovsky learned a lot as an entrepreneur and during a stint as chief medical officer at the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services. Melissa Buckley, director of the CHCF Health Innovation Fund, asked him to share insights about opportunities and pitfalls in the Medicaid space.

New CHCF Investment Streamlines Care Coordination in the Safety Net

Melissa Buckley

Investing in Innovation, Data Exchange

Health care providers cannot effectively coordinate a patient’s care without access to a shared set of accurate clinical information about that patient. That’s what Collective Medical aims to provide, and that’s why it has received the CHCF Health Innovation Fund’s latest program-related investment.

Opportunities for Emerging Technologies in the Medicaid Market

Medi-Cal, Telehealth

Despite being the nation's largest health insurer, Medicaid remains largely overlooked by investors and entrepreneurs. Learn more about the myriad opportunities for innovation within this market.

CHCF Invests in Quartet to Expand Care Coordination in California

Behavioral Health, Investing in Innovation

The CHCF Health Innovation Fund invests in Quartet, whose digital platform better integrates primary and behavioral health care for patients with co-occurring physical and mental health issues.

The Big Shortage: How Technology Can Help Solve America’s Health Workforce Problem

November 7, 2017

Sandra R. Hernández

Telehealth, Workforce

CHCF President and CEO Sandra Hernández gave the keynote address at the annual Health 2.0 Conference on the role of technology in solving America's health workforce challenges. This article is adapted from that talk.