AHA Center for Health Innovation

As hospitals and health systems use data to improve care and optimize all areas of the care continuum, the AHA Center for Health Innovation offers expertise, tools and resources to better understand what it can do and how to use it to achieve meaningful results.
AHA’s advisory services help hospitals navigate complex questions and make systematic changes to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of patient care by making informed decisions and empowering staff.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Americans to rapidly and without warning pivot to telehealth at levels exponentially higher than before the pandemic. So, what’s next?
Heightened demand for behavioral health services has presented hospitals and health systems with challenges and opportunities to increase capacity, forge partnerships to deliver care to patients and caregivers, and leverage tools to assess their capabilities.
Through The Value Initiative, the AHA Center for Health Innovation offers hospitals and health systems the right levers to improve health care affordability.
The AHA Center for Health Innovation is committed to helping hospitals and health systems deliver safe and high-quality care for all people, and sets out the insights and actions needed to achieve it.
An effective work culture leads to an effective pathway to health care innovation. The AHA Center for Health Innovation offers tools and services that facilitate communication, collaboration and workforce to advance skills and support growth.
Innovation capacity is about building a mindset to identify breakthrough ideas. The AHA Center for Health Innovation offers tools and resources that help you turn your ideas into reality.
Due to the significant financial impact of data breaches in health care, health informatics and other professionals are playing an important role in ensuring that medical organizations remain secure.
The pandemic has given high-risk patients cause for concern about returning to health care providers for routine care. The impact of this medical distancing won’t be fully understood for some time but, in the meantime, hospitals and health care systems face yet another significant hurdle in a year…