AHA Center for Health Innovation
Digital technology is an emerging opportunity to address Americans’ growing behavioral health needs and the shortage of providers. Digital solutions are striving to provide more ways to screen, triage and treat individuals who are struggling with depression, stress and anxiety or coping with…
Explore behavioral health services integration in the United States at the state level. Drill down further to see detailed behavioral health services integration by hospital type, bed size and much more!
Many health systems are looking at ways to reduce fragmentation between behavioral health and other physical care services and adopting behavioral health integration as the solution. As leadership teams pinpoint where they are on their journey to behavioral health integration, they need to answer…
Behavioral health disorders have significant impact on individual and community health, utilization of services and costs. Hospitals and health systems are working hard to create one system of care with multiple entry points for patients with multiple medical issues and to integrate behavioral…
Behavioral health disorders have significant impact on individual and community health, utilization of services and costs. Hospitals and health systems are shifting their focus to treating the whole patient and creating a continuum of care that reflects integration at each point in a patient’s…
If hospitals and health systems are to compete effectively in the battle for consumer loyalty with outside mega disruptors in outpatient care, they must bridge a widening gap between their organizational priorities and capabilities. This extends to all sorts of consumerism initiatives — from…
With nearly half of all U.S. physicians experiencing burnout, along with nurses and other care team members, the financial costs to the field are mounting. A recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine pegged physician burnout costs to the field at between $2.6 billion and $6.3 billion a year…
Consumers who use wearable devices to capture their health-related data have a message for health insurers who would love access to that information: Make us an offer. A recent Aite Group survey found that 62% of consumers are interested in sharing their connected-device data with payers if their…
A National Health Service pilot program underway in southeast England is using AI, a telehealth platform and a Wi-Fi-enabled armband to remotely monitor vital signs of recently discharged patients to analyze their data in real time in an effort to reduce readmissions.
Sometimes simple solutions can yield big results. Take the case of Virginia Commonwealth University’s department of family medicine and population health. It created a tool to measure the biggest social priorities for patients in the emergency department and the hospital that could be completed in…