AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Improving response to sepsis, reducing emergency department (ED) visits, standardizing communication in the operating room (OR) and streamlining patient alerts were among the winners of the 2023 VHA Shark Tank Competition at last week’s annual VHA Innovation Experience in Washington, DC.

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles are beginning to tackle atrial fibrillation (AFib) with an algorithm they developed to detect abnormal heart rhythm in symptomless people.

Join us on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, from noon until 1 p.m. CT, for AHA’s Leadership Scan on “Bringing a ‘Systemness’ Focus to Quality, Safety and Patient Experience: How to drive repeatable improvement through uniformity and greater transparency.”

At Wellstar Health System in Marietta, Georgia, palliative care practitioners have been using a virtual reality (VR) platform to simulate the most difficult conversations any clinician may have to deliver — communicating a life-altering diagnosis.

Physician informatics leaders are playing an increasingly larger strategic role in health care organizations, but they face rising challenges in funding as well as in efforts to recruit, retain and develop talent.

As hospital and health leaders continue to seek sustainable solutions to address workforce shortages, negative margins and rising labor costs, they may want to take a deeper look at ways to integrate physical and behavioral health services.

San Francisco-based Tia launched in 2017 with a vision of reimagining health care with women at the center and helping them to make better decisions about their health. Now, in its first “Women’s Primary Care ‘Plus’ Outcomes Report,” the company shares data about the impact the company is having on…

A newly released report from Concord Health Partners and the AHA Center for Health Innovation, “Innovation Investing in Health Care: Keys to Success,” covers six cornerstones for health care organizations to manage a private-investment program.

Amid the sound bites and substance delivered at the recent HLTH conference, health care leaders, transformers and innovators shared how they plan to reshape care delivery, partner to drive innovation and help consumers get greater access to obesity and diabetes medications along with a greater…

General Catalyst (GC) is spinning off Health Assurance Transformation Corp. (HATCo) to be led by former Intermountain Health CEO Marc Harrison, M.D. General Catalyst will look to acquire a health system within HATCo’s first year as a national blueprint to transform the field and to put the system…