Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
This paper is designed to continue the conversation around the concepts discussed in AHA's "Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future", and the AHA Workforce Center's "Workforce Roles in a Redesigned Primary Care Model" and "Reconfiguring the Bedside Care Team of the Future" and explore them in…
To more deeply understand patients’ conditions and provide the best care possible, sharing data among providers across the continuum and with patients themselves is critical. Hospitals have made a significant investment to achieve these aims. The American Hospital Association (AHA) estimates that,…
A Report of the AHA Interoperability Advisory Group (July 2015)
Executive Summary | Full Report
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology coordinates nationwide efforts that support the use of certified health IT and promote the adoption of national standards and the interoperable exchange of health information. Through the recent efforts of federal programs…
This series focuses on the IHI's main topic areas of:
Improvement Capability
Person- and Family-centered Care
Patient Safety
Quality, Cost and Value
Triple Aim for Populations
Teaching hospitals serve as centers for training future health care professionals, while also supporting an environment in which biomedical and clinical research can flourish, offering specialized services and providing patient care, often in the most disadvantaged communities.
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physicians and hospital leaders a set of guiding principles for integration. Those six principles are:
Physician and hospital leaders with similar values and expectations aligned financial and non-financial…
Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for hospitals and other health care organizations. In order to address this often overlooked danger, the Joint Commission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational…
Patients expect and deserve excellent care from their health care providers. This paper highlights multiple areas where hospitals are improving care, encouraging healthier lifestyles and reducing costs.
As telehealth increasingly becomes an integral component of our health care delivery system, and patients become more accustomed to its convenience, hospitals, health systems and other providers will seek new ways to use the rapidly evolving technology in diverse and innovative ways.