AHA Center for Health Innovation

AHA’s recently released 2024 Health Care Workforce Scan provides a wealth of examples of how provider organizations are piloting new care models and leveraging existing and emerging digital technologies to augment, support and streamline workforce roles.
Health systems must find a way to close the gap between supply and demand for care. The solution is to reinvent the nature of care delivery, according to a new AHA Knowledge Exchange report, “Reinvention to Build a Future-Ready Health Care Workforce.”
Having recently added two new health system partners and leveraged the Amazon Prime membership model, Amazon's One Medical is connecting with employers and the roughly one-third of consumers who do not have a primary care doctor.
Let’s be honest – we have a “love-hate” relationship with data, but connecting our stories with measurement drives understanding of our challenges and empowers an organization’s collective “why.” So, let’s talk data. Examine why data and the story it tells are “mission critical” to TeamSTEPPS…
The newly released fourth and final part of the Strategic Investment in Health Care Innovation series from Concord Health Partners and the AHA Center for Health Innovation explains “Why Growth Equity is Increasingly a Good Fit for Innovation Investors.”
Valley Health will tackle a huge challenge in April that it has been anticipating for some time. In a single day, all patients from its Ridgewood, New Jersey, hospital will be moved to the new high-tech Valley Hospital in Paramus.
The 2024 AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference will feature top rural providers who will share actionable strategies and resources to improve access to care, leverage unique workforce approaches, implement digital technologies and prioritize health equity.
Improving response to sepsis, reducing emergency department (ED) visits, standardizing communication in the operating room (OR) and streamlining patient alerts were among the winners of the 2023 VHA Shark Tank Competition at last week’s annual VHA Innovation Experience in Washington, DC.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles are beginning to tackle atrial fibrillation (AFib) with an algorithm they developed to detect abnormal heart rhythm in symptomless people.
Join us on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, from noon until 1 p.m. CT, for AHA’s Leadership Scan on “Bringing a ‘Systemness’ Focus to Quality, Safety and Patient Experience: How to drive repeatable improvement through uniformity and greater transparency.”