Patient-Centered Care

The COVID-19 pandemic’s crushing impact on well-being and mental health has further exacerbated the burnout crisis among clinicians.
Responding to extreme weather events, financial crises, national and local disruptions and the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals and health systems face chronic stresses that continually challenge their performance and ability to adapt.
Clinical documentation plays a critical role in providing, coordinating and paying for care.
The Complex Care Startup Toolkit is a practical collection of guides, templates and other tools for new and developing complex care programs, regardless of setting, population or geography.
In the third episode of our four-part series on Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs), Elisa Arespacochaga, AHA vice president of clinical affairs and workforce, sits down with Caroline DeLongchamps, manager of Patient and Family-Centered Care, and Quality and Safety, at MUSC Health.
Two external forces are buffeting hospitals and health systems across the country.
Although “compassion tech” does not yet define a particular category of innovations, it follows the natural evolution of health care technology. While e-health was popularized by the digitization of health care through electronic medical records, we now use “digital health” to refer to a wide range…
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Hospitals and health systems are redesigning their delivery systems to bring improved outcomes at lower cost. In this podcast, AHA’s Julia Resnick explores with University of Tennessee Medical Center leaders an approach that concentrates on developing disease specific, patient-centric plans.