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Measuring the Opportunity and Impact of AI
Amazon Web Services is working with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to test ways that artificial intelligence can simplify medical care. Bloomberg reports that Amazon recently gave the Harvard Medical School teaching hospital a grant of up to $2 million to experiment with machine learning and AI. One of its first projects will explore how to make daily tasks like patient scheduling more cost-effective.
Leveraging Virtual Care to Increase Access and Triage Patients
Virtual care has the potential to increase access, reduce costs and help patients make better decisions about their care as symptoms arise. Fulfilling these lofty goals may be a work in progress, but evolving telemedicine platforms are attempting to solve some of health care’s perplexing problems — how to increase access to primary care while delivering it in the most-appropriate cost setting.
How to Kick-Start Innovation in Your Organization
Looking for ways to increase the speed and scale of innovation efforts in your hospital or health system? Embracing innovation starts with building a culture that is nimble and accepts and encourages calculated risk. That’s why the AHA has partnered with The University of Chicago Booth School of Business to develop a new training program for health care leaders, Building and Leading a Culture of Innovation.
White House releases FY 2020 budget request
President Trump today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year 2020.
Want to Engage Patients in Population Health? Find a Partner
Partnerships among various stakeholders in the health care ecosystem will be key to successfully engaging patients in population health models, explained panelists at the recent 2019 MIT Sloan Healthcare & BioInnovations Conference in Boston. Providers who are responsible for managing health and disease prevention must focus upstream, encouraging healthful behaviors and impacting the social determinants of health.
AHA Reacts to President’s Budget
Patients should be confident in knowing that their hospital is their lifeline to access care in their community. The cuts proposed today raise serious concerns about how hospitals and health systems can ensure they serve as the safety net for their patients.
CDC announces funding to support maternal mortality review committees
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accepting applications through May 8 for $43.5 million in grants to support agencies and organizations that coordinate and manage maternal mortality review committees.
FDA issues safety recommendations for providers using surgical staplers
The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued recommendations for health care providers to reduce the risk of adverse events associated with surgical staplers and staples for internal use.
Week to highlight innovative patient safety, health care HR initiatives
This is Patient Safety Awareness Week.
AHA updating certification exam for health care risk managers
The AHA Certification Center will launch an updated Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management Exam in January.