AHA Center for Health Innovation
Community Health Improvement Week 2024 is June 10–14, a time to highlight hospitals and community organizations working together to enhance health and well-being and advance health equity.
AHA Quest for Quality Prize winner WellSpan Health is determined to improve health equity across its eight-hospital system headquartered in York, Pennsylvania.
In an upcoming AHA Leadership Scan episode, “Navigating the Health Care Cybersecurity Storm: Strategies for Resilience and Risk Reduction,” technology leaders and hospital executives will share impactful strategies to reduce risk.
Walgreens, CVS Health, and Walmart have invested billions of dollars in providing primary care and health and wellness services. By the end of Q2 2024, it is apparent that the great experiment is crumbling.
Ohio-based University Hospitals is deploying Aidoc’s aiOS AI platform across 13 hospitals and dozens of outpatient facilities to quickly identify conditions like pulmonary embolism, coronary artery calcification, vertebral compression fracture and intracranial hemorrhaging.
The consultancy Oliver Wyman recently published an analysis as a follow-up to its Designing for 2035 report that explores how the health care field will be impacted by the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
Amazon’s primary care subsidiary One Medical will lose its long-standing contract with Google at year-end. Google’s roughly 180,000 employees who received discounted medical care under the contract, accounted for about 10% of One Medical’s revenue in 2020.
Hospitals have an obligation to provide health-promoting meals for inpatients, outpatients, staff, and visitors. To make menu changes at a health care institution, it is important to identify allies, work as a team to develop new recipes and taste test meals, and educate all staff on the importance…
The virtual nurse has been successful in adult hospitals but has limited utilization in pediatric hospitals. With a review of evidence and extensive planning, Nemours Children’s Health created an enterprise virtual nursing model. Learn more about the process of introducing the virtual nurse,…
The AHA awarded the Foster G. McGaw Prize to Boston Medical Center (BMC) Health System for its achievements in improving access to high-quality health care — particularly for underserved areas — and developing innovative partnerships with community organizations.