Innovation
Since 2009, Allegheny General Hospital has permitted potential future medical students to observe live open heart surgeries performed by its surgeons.
“NYUTron,” a new artificial intelligence program now in use by New York University doctors and hospital executives, can not only read and accurately understand doctors’ notes, it can use them to predict whether a newly discharged patient will soon fall sick enough to be readmitted.
A new report, “The Rise of Innovation Investing Among Health Care Organizations,” explores the channels organizations are using to invest in innovation, the roles of professional investors and what it takes to achieve success.
AHA’s Leadership Summit, which will be held July 16-18 in Seattle, brings together many of the best minds in health care, medicine and technology with a shared passion for innovation as the road to advancing health.
Hospitals and health systems don’t have to fund innovation on their own. Often, partnering with specialists can be a sound strategy.
MultiCare uses a four-foot-tall robot named Moxi, which moves around the hospital on its own to run errands like taking samples to labs, getting equipment, and delivering medication to providers.
ALS has been very hard to treat. A new drug called Qalsody that is now in experimental trials at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia may make it easier.
The need for innovation in health care has never been greater. The AHA Leadership Summit July 16-18 in Seattle presents a unique opportunity to tap into insights from some of the top thought leaders and disrupters in health care.
When Eloise (Ellie) McCloskey turned 11, she got the best birthday present she and her family could have asked for: a phone call from Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, telling her a donor heart — which Ellie desperately needed — had been identified for her.
The saying, “knowledge shared is knowledge squared” is a nod to the power of experience and the importance of passing on learnings to the next generation.