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Futurescan 2026: 4 Insights That Will Shape Hospital Strategy
Hospitals and health systems must rethink traditional strategies and embrace bold transformation to remain financially strong amid policy, workforce and reimbursement challenges, according to the 2026 Futurescan report.
5 Innovations Strengthening the Rural Health Care Workforce
As health-care workforce shortages deepen nationwide, many of the most practical, scalable solutions are emerging not from large urban systems, but from rural communities willing to rethink how talent is developed, supported and retained.
A New Rural Blueprint: Strategic Partnerships That Keep Care Local
Rural hospitals across the country are turning to structured partnership models to help protect essential services, strengthen negotiating leverage and prepare for new payment arrangements.
Data-Driven Initiative Drives Down Disparities in Rural Health Care
Identifying the underlying factors that contribute to disparities in outcomes in vulnerable rural populations and developing strategies to address these issues remain constant challenges, but progress is being made. OSF Healthcare’s Health Equities Action Lab (HEAL) is employing a data-driven strategy to address breast cancer disparity outcomes among its Illinois patients, 65% of whom live in rural areas.
3 Ways Hospitals Are Tackling Maternal Health Innovation
The need to improve maternal and child health equity in America while reducing access disparities has become a national focus. As policymakers and provider organizations continue to seek ways to reverse these trends, hospitals and health systems are stepping up with innovative efforts.
Why Rural Hospitals May Have Some Advantages to Drive Tech Innovation
Rural hospitals and health systems may not have the size, resources or scale of their urban and academic medical center counterparts, but they have ideal traits to help spur technology innovation.
Special Report: How Health Care Disruptors will Transform the Field in 2024
AHA Market Scan special report explores which companies aim to deliver transformational change in 2024.
Studies: Telemedicine Pays Dividends in Rural Health
Deploying telehealth in rural areas and elsewhere to deliver care more efficiently while reducing costs and expanding access continues to accelerate. And the evidence is mounting that virtual care is delivering on these promises. This was a hot topic at the recent AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, where rural hospital and health system leaders shared strategies and information about how they’ve expanded telehealth services to areas like behavioral health emergency assessments, obstetrics, nephrology and neurology.
3 Keys to Addressing the Rural Maternal Health Crisis
Rural hospitals, which deliver about one in 10 babies nationally each year, have been closing in significant numbers. Despite the challenging environment, rural hospitals and health systems are taking traditional and innovative approaches to build or expand their maternal health programs.