AHA Center for Health Innovation
While it’s been difficult this year to predict what the next month will bring for health care, a few longer-term impacts are much clearer, including how digital health will continue to be transformed. Here are three predictions for 2021 by health care thought leaders.
Collaboration among rural health care executives will be critical during this transformative period when the field begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore the new landscape in greater detail, the nation’s top leaders will come together during the virtual AHA Rural Health Care…
Sanne Holbrook Henninger, LCSW Ed D, Director of Patient Experience of Duke Private Diagnostic Clinic, discusses the concepts of psychological safety, team coordination, clear communication and leadership alignment with a look at 1-2 best practices as activities for each, primarily for teams in…
Elisa Arespacochaga, MBA, Vice President with the American Hospital Association’s Physician Alliance looks at the drivers of burnout and shares organizational steps for addressing well-being in your organization. Additionally, she discusses strategies for creating personal supports and scaling…
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COVID-19 has upended priorities for hospitals and health systems in nearly all areas of leadership focus, including digital health innovation. Expanding and accelerating the shift to telehealth has become priority No. 1, with other technology initiatives put on hold or slowed down due to budgetary…
In an effort to advance ideation and expand collaboration to improve health care, the Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem Innovators’ network (iNET) has launched the Greenhouse initiative. Health care innovators outside the VA now will be able to collaborate directly with iNET sites…
Using technology like artificial intelligence and data to target at-risk and vulnerable populations is still at a nascent stage, but progress is being made. The population health team at Cleveland Clinic has developed a risk-stratification algorithm to help identify those in need of resources,…