AHA Digital Pulse
Use the AHA Digital Pulse to assess your digital capabilities and take action today
Prioritizing and implementing digital has never been more important, but it’s often difficult to know where to start. AHA Digital Pulse is a free tool for our members to learn where existing capabilities can support scaling digital transformation. Benchmark your digital capabilities against other industry leaders and see what tools are fueling success. The American Hospital Association, in collaboration with healthcare digital transformation consultancy AVIA, is providing a free resource for members, the AHA Digital Pulse. Read our User Stories to see the Digital Pulse in action.
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Digital Front Door
Unlock your digital front door and enable seamless patient experiences
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This Digital Pulse Assessment will guide your team through an evaluation of how effectively your organization has established a Digital Front Door for your patients. The assessment will allow you to evaluate your capabilities including:
Search To Schedule
- Provider directory
- Provider search
- Ratings and reviews transparency
- Consumer scheduling
Triage, Navigate and Treat
- Virtual triage
- Virtual visit – asynchronous
- Virtual visit – synchronous
- Low-acuity care navigation
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Comprehensive Perinatal Care
Leverage digital solutions to improve health outcomes for new parents and infants
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Health systems know that pregnancies are make or break opportunities to deliver high quality, affordable care, and build enduring relationships with women — a group that spends 34% more on health care over their lifetime as compared to men. Know where you stand by evaluating your capabilities in these essential elements of a comprehensive, digitally-enabled perinatal care strategy.
Increasing Access & Capacity
- Reproductive Telemedicine
- Tele-MAT
- Telemental Services
- Reproductive Health Monitoring
Improving Engagement & Self-Management
- Reproductive Education
- On-demand Behavioral Health
Optimizing Appropriate Utilization
- Perinatal Navigation
- Community Resource Referrals
- Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
- Nutrition Supportg
Optimizing Appropriate Utilization
- PComplex Pregnancy Management
- Perinatal Clinical Decision Support
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Behavioral Health
Advance the integration of physical and behavioral health with digital solutions
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Organizations need to strengthen the care delivery ecosystem by integrating behavioral and physical health care, improving workforce capacity through digital, and expanding substance use disorder treatment capabilities. This Pulse has two components:
Increasing Access & Capacity
- Tele-MAT Services
- Telemental Services
- Peer Support Services
- On-demand Behavioral Health
Driving Clinical Innovation
- Behavioral Health Screening
- Behavioral Health Integration
- ED-based Mental Health Interventions
- ED-based SUD Interventions
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COVID 19
Learn how your peers are rapidly scaling their digital response to this crisis
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The COVID-19 pandemic requires healthcare providers to respond to a dynamic healthcare crisis swiftly, efficiently, and safely. The capabilities addressed in this Pulse were reported by the AVIA Innovation Network to be the most critical, urgent and effectively supported by digital solutions. They include:
Adopting Clinical Care for COVID-19
- Screening & triage
- Virtual visits
- Remote monitoring for surveillance and containment
- Adapting care for non-COVID patients
Adopting Operations for COVID-19
- Call center management
- Capacity planning and preparedness
- Remote work and teleconferencing
- Mitigating supply shortages
- Critical asset tracking and management
Community Coordination for COVID-19
- Patient and community communication
- Patient Education
- Addressing social needs
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