AHA Center for Health Innovation

Examine the top cyber and risk threats and opportunities facing health care in 2025 in this blog by John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk.
The newly released Insights Report, “Improvement in Safety Culture Linked to Better Patient and Staff Outcomes,” highlights progress on additional outcome measures of patient safety including some that reflect the ongoing work led by nurses to protect patients.
Staffing shortages, rising costs, efforts to reduce administrative burden on clinicians and other factors are leading many health care providers to generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. These solutions address providers’ concerns by boosting the speed and accuracy of key workflows,…
While financial and retail analysts continue to evaluate the implications of Walgreens Boots Alliance’s recent agreement to be taken private by Sycamore Partners, many important questions loom.
More than 550 rural hospitals have joined the Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program, a partnership created last year by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Microsoft to provide free and heavily discounted cybersecurity services.
As of late February, there were 147 medical device recall events and 20 of them, or 13.6%, were Class I, according to a Modern Healthcare report.
On Feb. 19, the organization announced that it would roll out Ambience Healthcare’s AI platform for documentation, clinical documentation integrity and point-of-care coding.