Innovation
Hospitals and health systems should embrace opportunities to work with other stakeholders in the health care ecosystem, such as tech data companies, on new combinations of services. Leaders should see this as an opportunity to work together with health care disruptors, if they are not doing so…
AHA Center for Health Innovation Chief Operating Officer Andy Shin sees a new focus at the intersection of technology and the caregiver-patient relationship: compassion tech. In this week’s blog, Shin describes compassion tech and its promising potential for health care.
Although “compassion tech” does not yet define a particular category of innovations, it follows the natural evolution of health care technology. While e-health was popularized by the digitization of health care through electronic medical records, we now use “digital health” to refer to a wide range…
Indiana University Health, part of AHA’s Living Learning Network, was able to overcome early supply chain challenges during the pandemic and help smaller health care neighbors in need, writes Dan Handel, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer for the health system’s south central region.
This discussion guide facilitates conversations, ideas and actions that hospital and health system leaders should consider in their quest to become data-driven organizations that use data for health care innovation. As hospital and health care systems continue to build and refine their data…
Hospital and health system leaders need to have a formal system in place to evaluate and prioritize data projects. Here are 15 criteria to consider when evaluating and prioritizing data projects.
Each organization can use this maturity framework to assess its current capabilities to determine where they are as a data-driven organization and how this impacts their digital transformation.
This Market Insights report from the American Hospital Association’s Center for Health Innovation offers hospital and health system leaders a blueprint for becoming an organization that leverages data for health innovation and for improving clinical, financial and operational performance.
As creators and aggregators of data, hospital and health systems are in a unique position to improve patient experience and outcomes, and reduce cost. Data-driven health care organizations can provide fresh insights on how to meet patients’ needs and future market trends and thwart potential…
When hundreds of leaders gather virtually February 17–18 for the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, there will be opportunities for you to make, build and renew connections that help innovate and transform health care, through a pioneering approach toward conferencing.