Innovation
Some of America’s largest companies have made it their business to disrupt health care. And in 2019, these six firms took significant steps to improve efficiency and make high-quality care more accessible. Here are some of their biggest moves.
As we drive innovative change to improve the patient experience, caregivers are using a fresh eye to assess their means and methods, looking for new ways to connect care seamlessly across the continuum.
Innovation in action promises better care for patients, and also motivates the workforces of forward-looking hospitals and health systems. In this podcast, Priya Bathija, a vice president at the AHA, speaks with two senior leaders of New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System the rewards of energetic…
The Food and Drug Administration today announced a voluntary pilot program to expedite approvals of certain changes to ethylene oxide sterilization processes and facilities.
The AHA and Concord Health Partners today announced the launch of a $50 million venture capital fund to invest in early-stage health care companies.
WASHINGTON (November 13, 2019) – As the health care landscape rapidly evolves, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has been pursuing multiple ways to lead and promote innovation in the field.
During the recent CB Insights Future of Health Conference, Natan Reddy, a senior intelligence analyst, asked a simple question with anything but a simple answer. What would the world look like if people began living to age 150?
The re-playbook illustrates how to use design-thinking tools employed during the AHA Center for Health Innovation’s 2019 Solvathon to approach some of the biggest challenges facing the health care field. The Solvathon event included 200 emerging health care leaders who identified 250 solution…
In this blog, Andy Shin, chief operating officer of the AHA Center for Health Innovation, discusses an ecosystem approach to health care transformation.
Last week, more than 6,000 people representing all sectors of health care gathered in Las Vegas for HLTH, a conference aimed at fostering cross-ecosystem collaborations to accelerate health care transformation. Here are five health care predictions for the year ahead, based on what we at the AHA…