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Health Care Workforce: A System Under Pressure, Poised for Reinvention
AHA's 2026 Workforce Scan highlights six pressures that will define workforce strategy in the coming years: financial stress that limits flexibility; demographic shifts that increase demand; rapid technological transformation; changing worker expectations; the urgent need for new pipelines; and geographic disparities that threaten access.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Workforce
Why Smart Hospitals Are Defining the Future of Patient Care
The latest AHA Market Scan Trailblazers report, “The Smart Hospital of the Future: Connecting Systems, People and Technology,” outlines how hospitals are advancing toward more connected, data-driven models of care.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Interoperability, Voice Technologies, Mobile
A New Rural Blueprint: Strategic Partnerships That Keep Care Local
Rural hospitals across the country are turning to structured partnership models to help protect essential services, strengthen negotiating leverage and prepare for new payment arrangements.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Rural issues, Collaboration & Partnerships
Mayo Clinic Unveils Global Data and Insights Platform to Support Health Systems Worldwide
Mayo Clinic launched Platform_Insights, a new data and analytics offering designed to give health systems around the world access to its clinical expertise, large-scale datasets and advanced AI capabilities.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Hospital Data, Analytics & Research
Hospitals Advance AI-Enabled Prevention at Scale
A new study from Johns Hopkins Medicine offers hospitals a glimpse of how artificial intelligence (AI) could make prevention programs more accessible without compromising results.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Wearables and Remote Patient Monitoring, Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, and Other Chronic Diseases
Trailblazers: Small Things Matter in Infection Prevention
A new AHA Trailblazers report, “Small Things Matter in Infection Prevention,” explores how hospitals are expanding surveillance programs to include peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) and other vascular access devices — an area that represents both high volume and untapped opportunity for infection prevention.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Infection Prevention and Control, Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI)
Behavioral Health Outpaces Primary Care in 2024
In 2024, behavioral health visits among commercially insured individuals in the United States surpassed primary care visits for the first time, according to an analysis published by Behavioral Health Business and based on data from Trilliant Health.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Behavioral Health Care Delivery
Advancing Hospital Safety and Team Resilience
In this AHA Leadership Scan from 1 to 2 p.m. ET Thursday, Dec. 4., hospital executives will share practical, solution-driven strategies their organizations are using to reduce violence, strengthen resilience and foster a culture of healing.
Well-Being & Resilience, Workplace Safety, Workplace Violence, AHA Center for Health Innovation
4 Actions to Close Hospitals’ Predictive AI Gap
For CEOs and health system C-suite leaders, the implications of the digital divide of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) are twofold: Competitive pressure is rising and inequities in care and operations may deepen unless addressed.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Predictive Data Modeling, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Why Hospitals Are Building Their Own Nursing Pipelines
A new AHA Trailblazers report, “Buy or Build? Solving the Nursing Shortage,” explores how hospitals partnering with workforce education companies are creating reliable, sustainable nursing pipelines and cutting their dependency on contract labor.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Nurses, Workforce, Workforce Planning, Workforce Supply and Demand, Employee Retention, Workforce Shortages
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Resources

Behavioral Health Integration

Framework for hospitals and health systems to shift focus to overall health and bring together behavioral and physical health services into a fully integrated system of care.

Evolving Care Models

Framework for hospitals and health systems to assess their current capabilities to determine the best type of value-based care for the organization.

Telehealth Strategy

Tools for hospitals and health systems to assess their digital transformation strategy and expand telehealth services into integrated virtual care models.