The America's Health Insurance Plans' Innovation Lab, a shared space to collaborate on technology innovations in healthcare, has garnered support from five major healthcare companies, including GE Healthcare.
GE, health IT vendor Emdeon, global consulting firm Accenture, biopharmaceutical company Amgen and a fifth company AHIP has not named have pledged an undisclosed financial amount to support the lab, which is based in Chicago. A sixth company, multimedia house AnswersMedia, will serve as a strategic partner and host the lab, according to MedCity News.
Although the space includes technology such as a professional video studio with a green screen, virtual sets, audio recording booths, production kitchen for filming cooking segments on eating healthy and a gym, the lab also serves as a space to test out new business models and strategies, according to the report.
The lab is reinforced with a server room equipped with a secure cloud, conference rooms with telepresence technology and reconfigurable workspaces. Users are encouraged to snap photos of tabletop diagrams and lists to upload to the cloud, according to the report.