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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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.

Can Behavioral Health Entrepreneurs Finally Break Through?

September 20, 2019

Investing in Innovation, Behavioral Health

In 2018, health tech start-ups raised nearly $400 million in funding for technology investments related to behavioral health. In what areas are innovators making genuine progress?

Infographic: Tech-Enabled Innovation in Medicaid

Investing in Innovation

This interactive infographic highlights the areas within Medicaid where technology-enabled solutions can have the greatest impact, according to the more than 100 stakeholders that CHCF convened through its Primed Roundtable Series.

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.

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 Californians with low incomes.

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.

Primed: A Roundtable Series on Tech-Enabled Innovation in Medicaid

Investing in Innovation

The Primed Roundtable Series was a unique effort to foster constructive conversations about the opportunities and challenges facing those implementing, funding, and scaling solutions in their states’ Medicaid delivery systems.

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.

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.