AHA Center for Health Innovation
An effective work culture leads to an effective pathway to health care innovation. The AHA Center for Health Innovation offers tools and services that facilitate communication, collaboration and workforce to advance skills and support growth.
Innovation capacity is about building a mindset to identify breakthrough ideas. The AHA Center for Health Innovation offers tools and resources that help you turn your ideas into reality.
Due to the significant financial impact of data breaches in health care, health informatics and other professionals are playing an important role in ensuring that medical organizations remain secure.
The pandemic has given high-risk patients cause for concern about returning to health care providers for routine care. The impact of this medical distancing won’t be fully understood for some time but, in the meantime, hospitals and health care systems face yet another significant hurdle in a year…
More than half of independent physicians reported concerns about whether their practices will survive during the pandemic, according to a recent McKinsey & Company survey.
Teams under stress require a solid base of trust, comfort in speaking up, team support, established team values, leadership alignment and communication tools. Sanne Holbrook Henninger, MSW, LCSW, Ed D discusses how concepts of psychological safety, performance improvement and TeamSTEPPS can be used…
COVID-19 continues to spread throughout much of the country. Many states are experiencing spikes in cases. Media outlets report a daily total of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the virus. But the financial havoc the pandemic is wreaking on hospital and health system finances is…
For all the challenges that COVID-19 has presented, the pandemic also has created significant learning opportunities. Every day, provider organizations are innovating, forging and expanding partnerships, finding better ways to better communicate internally and externally and identifying ways to…
Monitoring confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients at home and remaining in regular contact can be a challenge, but the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) has come up with an automated text messaging system that has been working effectively.
Harvard University’s Kennedy School, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the United Nations recently collaborated on a platform to produce a decision-making tool that initially will focus on digital contact tracing of coronavirus infections. The platform, which…