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Using artificial intelligence (AI) to supplement traditional behavioral health screenings is gaining momentum in primary care.
AHA DataQuery AI™ builds on the American Hospital Association’s annual survey data, offering insights into more than 6,200 hospitals and 400 health systems.
According to WittKieffer’s 2025 report “Healthcare CEO Reimagined,” the traditional CEO archetype is being redefined fundamentally. The report highlights a set of paradigm shifts and leadership tenets for CEOs to consider and offers a road map for navigating health care’s accelerating transformation.
EpiWatch — a Johns Hopkins Medicine spinout — has received FDA 510(k) premarket clearance for its seizure detection platform that runs on the Apple Watch.
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.
The newly released Insights Report, “Improvement in Safety Culture Linked to Better Patient and Staff Outcomes,” highlights progress on additional outcome measures of patient safety including some that reflect the ongoing work led by nurses to protect patients.
Staffing shortages, rising costs, efforts to reduce administrative burden on clinicians and other factors are leading many health care providers to generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. These solutions address providers’ concerns by boosting the speed and accuracy of key workflows, improving the efficiency of high-volume tasks while reducing the workload for overburdened staff, notes a recent CB Insights report.
While financial and retail analysts continue to evaluate the implications of Walgreens Boots Alliance’s recent agreement to be taken private by Sycamore Partners, many important questions loom.
More than 550 rural hospitals have joined the Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program, a partnership created last year by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Microsoft to provide free and heavily discounted cybersecurity services.
As of late February, there were 147 medical device recall events and 20 of them, or 13.6%, were Class I, according to a Modern Healthcare report.

Resources

Behavioral Health Integration

Framework for hospitals and health systems to shift focus to overall health and bring together behavioral and physical health services into a fully integrated system of care.

Evolving Care Models

Framework for hospitals and health systems to assess their current capabilities to determine the best type of value-based care for the organization.

Telehealth Strategy

Tools for hospitals and health systems to assess their digital transformation strategy and expand telehealth services into integrated virtual care models.