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} @media (max-width:767px) { .sp_Resource1 .sp_Resource1_holder img { width: 100%; max-width: 150px; } } .sp_Resource1 .btn { margin-top: 20px; } .sp_Resource1_holder h2 span { color: #d50032; display: block; position: relative; font-size: .8em; } <div class="col-md-10 col-md-offset-1 sp_Resource1_holder"><div class="text-align-center col-sm-4 col-md-3"><a href="https://20041330.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/20041330/Thyme%20Care%202024%20Impact%20Report.pdf?utm_source=aha&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=aha-concord-portcos&utm_term=2025&utm_content=casestudy" target="_blank" title="Thyme Care’s Impact Report on Improving the Cancer Care Journey"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-04/thyme_care_cancer-care-journey_impact-report-247x320.jpg" alt="Cover image" width="247" height="320"></a> </div><div class="col-sm-8 col-md-9"> Scan </h3> --><h2><span>Case Study</span> <a href="https://20041330.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/20041330/Thyme%20Care%202024%20Impact%20Report.pdf?utm_source=aha&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=aha-concord-portcos&utm_term=2025&utm_content=casestudy" target="_blank" title="Thyme Care’s Impact Report on Improving the Cancer Care Journey">Thyme Care’s Impact Report on Improving the Cancer Care Journey</a></h2><p>Thyme Care’s Impact Report showcases their 2024 key outcomes in oncology care, highlighting powerful data on cost reduction, acute care utilization, social barriers, and member experience. This free resource helps organizations understand how Thyme Care’s comprehensive, value-based approach can meaningfully improve care quality, lower costs, and enhance the patient experience.</p><p><a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="https://20041330.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/20041330/Thyme%20Care%202024%20Impact%20Report.pdf?utm_source=aha&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=aha-concord-portcos&utm_term=2025&utm_content=casestudy" target="_blank" title="Thyme Care’s Impact Report on Improving the Cancer Care Journey"><span>Read Case Study</span></a><span> </span></p></div></div><div class="col-md-1"> </div></div> /* y-hr3 */ .y-hr3{ clear: both; } .y-hr3 div:nth-child(2) { border-top: solid 2px lightgrey; margin: 50px 0px; height: 0px } /* y-hr3 // */ <div class="row y-hr3"><div class="col-md-3"> </div><div class="col-md-6"> </div><div class="col-md-3"> </div></div><div class="row spacer"><div class="col-sm-8 col-md-offset-2"><div><a href="https://www.thymecare.com/oncologygroups?utm_source=aha&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=aha-concord-portcos&utm_term=2025&utm_content=casestudy" target="_blank" title="Thyme Care"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-04/thyme-care-logo-834x313.jpg" alt="Thyme Care logo" width="417" height="157"></a><h3><a href="https://www.thymecare.com/oncologygroups?utm_source=aha&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=aha-concord-portcos&utm_term=2025&utm_content=casestudy" target="_blank" title="Thyme Care">Thyme Care</a></h3><p>Thyme Care is the leading value-based care enabler, collaborating with providers and payers to transform the experience and outcomes for cancer patients. By combining a technology-enabled Care Team and a partnership with 1000+ oncologists, Thyme Care creates a collaborative care model that supports patients with cancer while reducing the total cost of care.</p><p>If you would like to learn more about Thyme Care visit <a href="https://www.thymecare.com">Thymecare.com</a> or <a href="mailto:michele@thymecare.com?subject=I%20would%20like%20to%20learn%20more%20about%20your%20solution&body=I%20would%20like%20to%20learn%20more%20about%20the%20work%20your%20company%20is%20doing%20with%20hospitals%20and%20health%20care%20providers." title="Contact Michele Lee">contact Michele Lee</a>.</p></div></div></div> /* y-hr3 */ .y-hr3{ clear: both; } .y-hr3 div:nth-child(2) { border-top: solid 2px lightgrey; margin: 50px 0px; height: 0px } /* y-hr3 // */ <div class="row y-hr3"><div class="col-md-3"> </div><div class="col-md-6"> </div><div class="col-md-3"> </div></div> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:41:00 -0500 Care Delivery Transformation /news/chairpersons-file/2025-01-14-chair-file-video-meet-2025-aha-board-chair-tina-freese-decker <p>From making pizzas to leading an integrated health system, Tina Freese Decker’s career has focused on a connection to people and serving others. She is president and CEO of Corewell Health, a Michigan-based leading integrated health system with more than 60,000 team members providing excellent health care and coverage to millions of people.</p><p>As AHA chair, Tina is committed to ensuring you as members feel heard, listened to and supported through the AHA so we can do what we do best: providing the very best care to our patients and to our communities.</p><p>Watch this video to learn more about Tina and how the AHA is all in for 2025 as we make health better, together.</p><hr><p></p> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:46:42 -0600 Care Delivery Transformation /case-studies/2024-11-13-aha-value-initiative-members-action-meadville-medical-center-meadville-pa Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:44:30 -0600 Care Delivery Transformation /aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan/2024-10-01-4-ways-ai-accelerating-care-delivery-innovation <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-8"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/4-Ways-AI-Is-Accelerating-Care-Delivery-Innovation.png" data-entity-uuid="5c7fa3c8-59cd-4065-b1af-173ee889c39d" data-entity-type="file" alt="4 Ways AI Is Accelerating Care Delivery Innovation. An image board showing a head with an AI brain, a DNA strand, a robotic arm, a mobile app, a molecule, and brain sharing data in digital bits, and a prescription drug bottle and tablets." width="100%" height="100%"></p><p>Leaders from across the health care field met recently in Chicago at the <a href="https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/perspectives/health/2024/september/making-health-equity-part-of-the-innovation-conversation.html" target="_blank" title="Oliver Wyman: Making Health Equity Part of the Innovation Conversation">Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit</a> to explore how technology solutions and strategic reforms can lead to a more sustainable and equitable health care environment.</p><p>Predictably, artificial intelligence (AI) was a central theme in presentations and demonstrations of how AI can radically influence patient care, accelerate new drug discoveries and bridge the health equity gap.</p><h2><span>4 Takeaways to Improve Care Delivery</span></h2><h3><span>1</span> <span>|</span> Digital twins demonstrate ways to deliver the right care at the right time.</h3><p>One example showcased how AI can, in real time, ingest patient information and analyze it alongside evidence-based data to simulate different treatment and outcome scenarios. This use of so-called “digital twins” can improve the likelihood that patients receive the right care at the right time. With the ability to gather and analyze a wealth of patient data from various sources, digital twins can offer personalized treatment plans based on individual characteristics, medical history and real-time physiological data.</p><h4>Takeaway</h4><p>Predictive analytics and preventive interventions are made possible by machine learning algorithms, allowing for early detection of health risks and proactive interventions, notes a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10513171/" target="_blank" title="National Library of Medicine: Digital twin for healthcare systems">report in the journal Frontiers in Digital Health</a>. Digital twins can optimize clinical operations by analyzing workflows and resource allocation, and support risk stratification to implement targeted patient strategies, leading to streamlined processes and enhanced patient outcomes.</p><h3><span>2</span> <span>|</span> Genetic testing and early detection technologies can help close the health equity gap.</h3><p>By leveraging advancements in genetic testing and early-detection technologies, individuals at high risk of cancer can be identified before the late stages of the disease, Feyi Ayodele, co-founder and CEO of CancerIQ Inc., explained. For example, individuals with certain genetic mutations should receive proactive measures, such as prophylactic surgeries or more frequent screenings to mitigate their risk.</p><h4>Takeaway</h4><p>Despite these advancements, access to these types of innovations remains uneven. Many patients, particularly those in underserved areas, lack the resources or knowledge to pursue preventive care. To combat this, Ayodele said the field must prioritize integrating genetic counseling and testing into primary care settings.</p><h3><span>3</span> <span>|</span> Avoid a ‘sprinkler strategy’ on tech investments.</h3><p>Finding ways to ensure that at-risk populations have access to resources that address health disparities is something that Niyum Gandhi, chief financial officer and treasurer of Mass General Brigham, is passionate about. He detailed how the large Boston-based health system is turning the concept of return on investment on its head. Mass General’s approach is to move away from what Gandhi called a "sprinkler strategy" of funding various initiatives to a more accountable approach that ties investments directly to health outcomes.</p><h4>Takeaway</h4><p>This approach requires setting clear metrics and holding leaders across the organization accountable for achieving them. Mass General is using community-based data to drive that decision-making. For instance, data showed that 57% of excess deaths in its communities are driven by cardiometabolic diseases, and cancer is also a leading cause of death. By focusing on blood pressure screenings, controlling hypertension, and cancer screenings in community settings, Mass General is closing the mortality gap among racial groups.</p><h3><span>4</span> <span>|</span> AI is accelerating drug discoveries.</h3><p>Drugmaker Pfizer is using AI and data to hasten drug discovery, manufacturing and the patient experience. AI technology, for instance, helped trim nearly six years off the time it would normally take to get a cancer drug from Phase 1 to regulatory approval. Additionally, AI-driven manufacturing processes reduced cycle times by 25%, said Lidia Fonseca, Pfizer’s chief digital and technology officer, and executive vice president.</p><h4>Takeaway</h4><p>Fonseca also spotlighted how AI is being used to craft personalized messaging about drugs for both patients and their clinicians. That, in turn, enables a more productive conversation about a treatment plan.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><p><a href="/center" title="Visit the AHA Center for Health Innovation landing page."><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/logo-aha-innovation-center-color-sm.jpg" data-entity-uuid="7ade6b12-de98-4d0b-965f-a7c99d9463c5" alt="AHA Center for Health Innovation logo" width="721" height="130" data-entity- type="file" class="align-center"></a></p><p><a href="/center/form/innovation-subscription"><img src="/sites/default/files/2019-04/Market_Scan_Call_Out_360x300.png" data-entity-uuid data-entity-type alt width="360" height="300"></a></p></div></div></div>.field_featured_image { position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } .featured-image{ position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:50:48 -0500 Care Delivery Transformation