AHA Center for Health Innovation

AHA and partners provide transformational insights, ideas and actions for addressing the unique care needs of older adults.
Adopting an innovative care delivery approach — identifying patients who can receive treatment while sitting rather than lying down — can reduce length of stay and increase ED efficiency without any adverse impact on outcomes or care quality.
The West Health Accelerator is an initiative to help hospitals and health systems operationalize and scale proven technologies across care environments to improve patient outcomes and support care teams.
A new AHA Market Scan Trailblazers report, sponsored by Iris Telehealth, explores how virtual care delivery or telehealth (an umbrella term describing all aspects of virtual care) expands access to behavioral healthcare.
Trailblazers: How health systems are deploying telehealth to expand access to behavioral healthcare and improve patient and clinician experiences.
AHA members are revamping operations and paving the way for a future of high-quality care delivery through the following imperatives.
Rick Anderson is the longest-tenured healthcare executive in the U.S., with 41 years and counting in his position overseeing St. Luke’s University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.