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.

Bridging the Digital Health Divide Series

Courtney R. Lyles, Adrian Aguilera, Oanh Nguyen, Urmimala Sarkar

Health Equity, Investing in Innovation, Telehealth

All patients should benefit from digital health tools regardless of their cultural background, language, income, race, or ethnicity. The two papers in this series focus on how to create equity and inclusion during technology implementation and design to help health care providers, health plans, and developers reach everyone.

Innovation Fund Investing in Early-Stage Companies and Founders with Lived Experience

December 14, 2021

Investing in Innovation

The fund looks for companies whose expertise complements CHCF's areas of focus.

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.

Innovation Landscape

Investing in Innovation

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.

Digital Start-Up Is Transforming Mental Health Care in Schools

September 28, 2021

Behavioral Health, Health Equity, Investing in Innovation, Medi-Cal

The CHCF Health Innovation Fund has invested in Hazel Health’s vision for critical services for students and young adults.

For Central Valley Residents, eConsults Are a Technological Lifeline

August 27, 2021

Investing in Innovation, Medi-Cal, Telehealth

Health centers are trying to remove barriers to integrating eConsults into their workflow.

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.

At a Glance: Why California Needs a Statewide Health Data Network (and How to Get There)

Data Exchange, Investing in Innovation

This fact sheet details the challenges and potential solutions California's leaders face in creating a health information exchange system that collects patient data in a single unified manner while also making this information accessible to health providers timely and securely.

Why the Time Has Come for Statewide Data Exchange in California

Data Exchange, Health Equity, Investing in Innovation

The ability to share appropriate health data will be critical as the state moves forward with its CalAIM initiative.

Technology Innovation in Medicaid: What to Expect in the Next Decade

Investing in Innovation

To learn what Medicaid innovation to expect over the next decade, Manatt Health surveyed and interviewed over 200 health care leaders across government, providers, plans, tech companies, community-based organizations, and investment firms. The paper explore the future for issues like telehealth, care coordination, social determinants of health, and behavioral health integration.

Underinvested: Strategies for Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Care Venture Investment

The West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’ Innovation Studio

Investing in Innovation, Health Equity

This report outlines the latest data on the status and benefits of diversity in the venture ecosystem and summarizes existing initiatives working to increase the number of diverse funded founders and investors.

More Health Tech Investors Pushing for Diversity, Inclusion

December 1, 2020

Investing in Innovation

Like leaders in many organizations and institutions, some in the venture capital industry are taking action to stop perpetuating health care inequities.

Dual Purpose: Opportunities for Technology to Help People Enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare

October 30, 2020

Melissa Buckley

Investing in Innovation

A conversation with Andrey Ostrovsky, MD, an angel investor and former chief medical officer of the federal Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services.

CIN Resource Page: Resilient Leadership

Workforce, Investing in Innovation

This California Improvement Network resource page focuses on tools that support leaders in health care organizations to build resilience, inspire and motivate, foster organizational alignment, develop powerful communication, and navigate change.

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.