The Platform
The Platform
24 January 2023 / Network
The Alliance for Health Innovation brings together a diverse set of cross-sector stakeholders committed to health innovation through the lens of equity and healthy aging. Its mission is to establish the importance of innovation in achieving healthy aging through investments, policy reforms, and strategic partnerships – both for the value to patients and for health system sustainability.
The Alliance advocates for policy solutions supportive of a robust, thriving innovation sector developing new technologies, treatments, drugs and services that enable people to live longer – and healthier – lives. The relentless pursuit of innovation forms the bedrock of modern medicine and technological advancements. Thirty years ago, an HIV infection was a death sentence. Today, it’s a chronic disease that we can manage. For example, more than half of the People living with HIV in the U.S. are now over 50. We’ve seen comparable advancements in telecommunications where the smartphone has changed many people’s lives and can increasingly be used to monitor and improve our health. Underlining the importance of bringing stakeholders together with experts to discuss policy solutions and create awareness of the importance of innovation toward government officials and policymakers. Policy priorities of the Alliance include: spending on health innovation as an investment; re-imagine 21st-century aging and health needs; ensure that access to healthcare is judged by health equity metrics based on Innovation; emphasize the role of care delivery to all societies
Combatting Ageism
Integrated Care
Long-term Care
United States of America
Private Sector
Global Coalition on Aging, GCOA, Alliance for Health Innovation, healthcare, aging, healthy aging, innovation