Innovation

AHA Executive Vice President and COO Maryjane Wurth discusses hospitals’ transformation journey with AHA Board Chairman Brian Gragnolati, president and CEO, Atlantic Health System; Jonathan Perlin, M.D., president, clinical services and CMO, HCA Healthcare; and John Haupert, president and CEO,…
Northwestern Medicine — Chicago, Ill. Using the EHR to Drive Value Northwestern Medicine created multi-disciplinary teams to maximize the EHR’s capabilities and improve care across the system. These Health System Clinical Collaboratives have resulted in systemwide improvements related to the…
Hospitals and health systems are accelerating efforts to drive innovation, but they haven’t mastered the ability to scale their ideas quickly. In fact, a new study from the Center for Connected Medicine and The Health Management Academy shows that 62% of responding health systems scale innovation…
The AHA leverages the nation’s leading platforms to share the story of how hospitals and health systems are advancing health in America. Few forums are more influential than Aspen Ideas: Health (June 20-23), opening the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival, “where health care’s biggest challenges meet its…
Digital innovation may be a necessity for health care organizations, but it’s coming at a steep price. Modern Healthcare’s most recent Power Panel survey of top CEOs found that more than a third of the 26 responding CEOs said their organizations spent between $5 million and $19.9 million on digital…
Hospital and health system leaders shared how they are driving innovation to advance health and the patient experience at this week’s 20th Annual Not-for-Profit Health Care Investor Conference.
The rapid transformation of health care has made innovation nothing short of imperative for hospitals and health systems. But innovation can be especially difficult when organizations cannot see through the chaos of a complex, uncertain and volatile environment. In this convenient, one-day…
Building and leading a culture of innovation is no easy task. But, in a time of disruption and transformation, it’s a critical activity for health care leaders. They undoubtedly will face challenges along the way, but they can avoid these three common mistakes, which were shared in a recent AHA…
Nurses regularly tackle clinical and operational challenges in innovative ways as they go about ensuring the best care for their patients. But, often the impact of their innovations are limited to the patients they care for directly. Not including nurses in enterprisewide innovation initiatives is…