Innovation
When identical twins Tate and Tripp Myers were born, they weighed a little under four pounds … put together. After Tate and Tripp arrived 26 weeks and six days, their first home was in the new Tiny Baby Unit (TBU) at Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky.
Xaia is an app developed over years of research by Cedars-Sinai that leverages the Apple Vision Pro platform to expand access to mental health.
In this "Safety Speaks" conversation, Christi Barney, R.N., vice president of quality and patient safety at Emerson Health, discusses their innovative approach to culture building, and how quality and safety trainings for all stakeholders drove buy-in and measurable success across the health system…
The introduction of artificial intelligence-driven technology into health care continues at a brisk pace, with sometimes uneven results.
A heart transplant comes close to a miracle for those who need it. It takes many hands to make that miracle happen: A team including surgeons, operating room staff, heart and lung machine specialists, physicians and others must work together to ensure a successful surgery. It’s a careful balance,…
Thanks to West Virginia University Medicine Children’s six-year-old Alexander Shell was among the first patients in the country — and the first in West Virginia — to receive the first dose of ELEVIDYS gene therapy.
AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego unveiled presentations from five health care startups that are addressing health care’s most complex and pressing challenges. The featured companies are backed by the AHA as part of its initiative to invest in and support the development of needed innovations for…
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center is offering a new postpartum rehabilitation program specifically targeted to moms who underwent C-sections.
AHA Immediate Past Chair John Haupert, president and CEO of Grady Health System in Atlanta, opened the afternoon plenary session during the second day of the Summit discussing how health care has faced extraordinary change and will continue to transform through innovation. “Sometimes the pace of…
The authors of a recent Harvard Business Review report argue that care delivery systems need fixing far more than the people who work in these systems. Health care leaders must account for the strains on the workforce of poorly designed and unoptimized systems and create systems-focused improvement…