AHA Center for Health Innovation

A new AHA Market Scan Trailblazers report, sponsored by Concord Technologies, examines how AI — with its ability to quickly recognize patterns, contextualize data and extract relevant information — can significantly streamline the processing of incoming documents and messages.
Trailblazer: Explore how hospitals can use AI to improve interoperability and streamline patient workflows without overhauling existing infrastructure.
Inspired by examples in other fields like NASA’s Mission Control, a number of multi-hospital health systems have launched command centers to balance patient distribution across facilities.
A novel electronic health record-based marker can alert clinicians to medication non-adherence in transplant patients and facilitate early intervention, reducing the likelihood of organ rejection, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of Transplantation.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has launched a public dashboard offering near-real-time insights into heat-related emergency room visits.
A state-funded program for the unhoused at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has transformed a once informal overnight drop-in situation into a structured pathway to shelter, services and lasting stability.
The American Hospital Association recently honored five organizations striving to improve community health through collaboration by naming them recipients of this year’s Dick Davidson NOVA Awards.