Community Health Improvement Week is a time to highlight hospitals partnering to enhance health and well-being.
AHA Center for Health Innovation
AHA and partners provide transformational insights, ideas and actions for addressing the unique care needs of older adults.
Hospital smart rooms — which link digital whiteboards, door signs and computer vision cameras to electronic medical records and care plans — will enable more human connection between patients and clinicians.
A new AHA Market Scan Trailblazers report, sponsored by Concord Technologies, examines how AI — with its ability to quickly recognize patterns, contextualize data and extract relevant information — can significantly streamline the processing of incoming documents and messages.
Trailblazer: Explore how hospitals can use AI to improve interoperability and streamline patient workflows without overhauling existing infrastructure.
Inspired by examples in other fields like NASA’s Mission Control, a number of multi-hospital health systems have launched command centers to balance patient distribution across facilities.
A novel electronic health record-based marker can alert clinicians to medication non-adherence in transplant patients and facilitate early intervention, reducing the likelihood of organ rejection, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of Transplantation.
Across the country, hospitals and health systems are exploring innovative ways to improve quality of care and patient satisfaction through architecture.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has launched a public dashboard offering near-real-time insights into heat-related emergency room visits.
A state-funded program for the unhoused at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has transformed a once informal overnight drop-in situation into a structured pathway to shelter, services and lasting stability.