AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

The 10 most-read Market Scan articles of 2025, reflecting what mattered most to health care leaders this year: workforce shortages, rising cyber threats, volatile supply chains and continued experimentation by major retail and technology players seeking a foothold in care delivery.

The Future of Physician Workforce Optimization: Building the Clinical and Operational Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future, sponsored by AmplifyMD, explores how integrated virtual specialty care models are helping hospitals extend scarce expertise, stabilize coverage and improve access to care…

AHA's 2026 Environmental Scan highlights financial constraints, workforce strain and shifting demand patterns no longer are emerging issues — they are persistent conditions shaping daily operations and long-term strategy.

A selection of the top AHA Market Scan stories on community health.

The health care sector reached a major milestone this month with the opening of the nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital. UCI Health-Irvine, a new 144-bed facility, officially opened its doors on Dec. 10, setting a new sustainability benchmark for U.S. hospitals.

AHA's 2026 Workforce Scan highlights six pressures that will define workforce strategy in the coming years: financial stress that limits flexibility; demographic shifts that increase demand; rapid technological transformation; changing worker expectations; the urgent need for new pipelines; and…

The latest AHA Market Scan Trailblazers report, “The Smart Hospital of the Future: Connecting Systems, People and Technology,” outlines how hospitals are advancing toward more connected, data-driven models of care.

Rural hospitals across the country are turning to structured partnership models to help protect essential services, strengthen negotiating leverage and prepare for new payment arrangements.

Mayo Clinic launched Platform_Insights, a new data and analytics offering designed to give health systems around the world access to its clinical expertise, large-scale datasets and advanced AI capabilities.

A new study from Johns Hopkins Medicine offers hospitals a glimpse of how artificial intelligence (AI) could make prevention programs more accessible without compromising results.