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AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Risky Business: How to Seize Future Growth Opportunities

Major transformational shifts in health care have made it difficult to visualize the path to future success. And building out an effective strategy — in which advancing innovation, making savvy technology investments and forging sound partnerships are givens — can be fraught with complexity, ambiguity and risk.
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CDC reports Zika-associated death in Puerto Rico

About 11% of patients tested for arboviruses in Puerto Rico since last November were infected with Zika virus, according to a
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Empowering a Healthy Culture

Boards need to assess troubled areas in their organizations, set goals for improving the culture, and hold leaders accountable for change.
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Equity of Care winner makes everyone feel welcome

Named the 2019 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award winner, Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., continues to make its hospital an open and diverse environment for staff, patients and the community.
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Students coach elderly patients to better health

Pocono Medical Center (PMC) Chief Medical Executive Jonathan Goldner, M.D., has seen it happen too many times. Elderly patients suffering from chronic diseases are discharged from the hospital.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Alexa: ‘Will patients share their information with you?’

Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA compliant. The company recently launched six Alexa voice health tools built by providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers and digital health coaching companies that allow organizations to securely transmit private patient information. The Alexa Skills Kit enables select covered entities and business associates subject to HIPAA to build Alexa skills so they can transmit and receive protected health information as part of an invite-only program.

New views on womens services

Trustee talking points The 2014 birthrate for women ages 25 to 29 was 106 births per 1,000, just slightly higher than the rate of 101 per 1,000 women ages 30 to 34, according t
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AHA urges president to protect access to care in FY 2016 budget request

AHA today urged President Obama to protect access to health care services for seniors and the disabled by not including further hospital payment reductions under Medicare in his fiscal year 2016 Fe
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In final rule, CMS tempers the impact of reporting, repaying Medicare overpayments

Heeding concerns raised by the AHA and others, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Feb.