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Assessing the Health Care Environment for 2026: Key Signals for the Field
AHA's 2026 Environmental Scan highlights financial constraints, workforce strain and shifting demand patterns no longer are emerging issues — they are persistent conditions shaping daily operations and long-term strategy.
AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Market Scan | Center
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5 Innovators Take Center Stage at the AHA Leadership Summit
At the recent 2025 AHA Leadership Summit, the Advancing Innovation Showcase offered a rapid-fire glimpse into the future of care delivery, workforce support and digital transformation.
Advance Your Innovation Strategy at the AHA Leadership Summit
Health care leaders looking for ways to build more innovative organizations, advance health equity and create a more resilient culture will find a wealth of learning opportunities at the AHA Leadership Summit July 21-23 in San Diego.
Innovative Rural Hospitals Think Beyond Tradition to Improve Access to Care
Whether it’s drones delivering medications or nurses driving virtual care on wheels, rural hospitals are innovating to close the gap between providers and patients.
Reader's Choice: Our 10 Most Popular Market Scan Articles in 2024
AHA’s Market Scan has provided news and insights on topics that are disruptive and innovative in the field. Here are the top 10 most-read articles from 2024.
4 Habits of Highly Reliable Health Care Organizations
The authors of a recent Harvard Business Review report argue that care delivery systems need fixing far more than the people who work in these systems. Health care leaders must account for the strains on the workforce of poorly designed and unoptimized systems and create systems-focused improvement programs that everyone owns together.
How Wearable Cognitive Assistance Tools Could Reshape Care Delivery
Technology experts believe that applications that provide what’s known as wearable cognitive assistance (WCA) could significantly improve clinical processes and safety, and reduce costs. WCA includes headsets provided to surgeons with real-time medical anatomical visualizations, preoperative imaging, a procedural checklist and the patient’s medical history. These artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled devices can help health systems reduce the time to perform surgeries by as much as 30%.
Health System Venture Funds Place Their Bets on Innovation
With ever-increasing frequency, hospitals and health systems are establishing or expanding venture funds in search of the next startup that could revolutionize health care. Consider some recent transactions.
Risky Business: How to Seize Future Growth Opportunities
Major transformational shifts in health care have made it difficult to visualize the path to future success. And building out an effective strategy — in which advancing innovation, making savvy technology investments and forging sound partnerships are givens — can be fraught with complexity, ambiguity and risk.