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The hospital-at-home (H@H) model — where patients receive acute level care in their homes, rather than in a hospital — has
emerged as an innovative and promising approach to provide high quality care to patients in the comfort of their homes.
In this conversation, Darryl A. Elmouchi, M.D., chief operating officer of Corewell Health, discusses the current constraints facing caregivers when managing their day-to-day responsibilities, and how Corewell piloted innovative programs to help their employees get back to the main priority of…
The ransomware attacks on Synnovis and Octapharma by QiLin and BlackSuit ransomware gangs resulted in a massive disruption to patient care.
In this new "Safety Speaks" conversation, Jamie Orlikoff, president of Orlikoff & Associates, Inc. and national adviser on governance and leadership at the AHA, discusses the role hospital boards can play in supporting quality and safety within their health systems, and how board members who…
Amicus Brief, AHA, Others File Amicus Brief Challenging Reviewability of Certain CMS Determinations
In this conversation, Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO & president of Dartmouth Health and 2024 AHA board chair, speaks with her colleague Robert E. Brady, Ph.D., director of Anxiety Disorders Service at Dartmouth Health, about different types of anxieties and their prevalence in today’s culture.
The 340B Affording Care for Communities and Ensuring a Strong Safety-net (340B ACCESS) Act would completely dismantle the 340B program and undermines the very purpose of the program — to allow eligible providers to expand access to care for more patients and communities across the country.
The AHA provides cybersecurity support to individual hospitals and health systems and continues to share information and guidance with the field on the latest cyberthreats.
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…
A non-malicious global technology outage that began early Friday morning is continuing to affect many industries and is having varying effects on hospitals and health systems across the country.