Innovation
Nearly 1,000 health care leaders and change-makers recently convened at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Institute鈥檚 Aspen Ideas Festival, to explore health care鈥檚 biggest challenges and debate possible solutions.
This blog by Lindsey Dunn-Burgstahler of the AHA Center for Health Innovation highlights three emerging ideas with the potential for a big impact on health, all shared at the 2022 Aspen Institute鈥檚 Aspen Ideas Festival.
HCA Florida Healthcare uses lifesaving ECMO therapy on COVID-19 patient.
Intermountain Healthcare is using precision genomics to personalize care and treatment for diseases like cancer, determine an individual鈥檚 risk for certain genetic conditions and identify how well an individual will respond to specific medications and dosage. The overall goal is to provide a better鈥
Like many hospitals across the country, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Laramie County, Wyoming, was seeing the effects of the nationwide opioid crisis 鈥 and had to change its approach after the COVID-19 pandemic made the situation worse.
OSF HealthCare, based in Peoria, Illinois, launched OSF Innovation to 鈥渆mbrace change and take on the largest health care challenges.鈥 The team assessed what was needed to improve health outcomes and safety, increase access to care and make care more affordable.
In analyzing the current state of transformation, leaders from health systems, insurers, digital health companies and others at Modern Healthcare鈥檚 recent Transformation Summit shared the insights about how providers can capitalize on their strengths and shore up areas for improvement to better鈥
Health care organizations should view innovation as requiring a series of separate skills and behaviors that demand a different kind of leadership than exists in many health care organizations.
Health care leaders will gather at the AHA Leadership Summit July 17-19 in San Diego to share transformational strategies and innovative approaches for delivering better care and greater value while gaining insights from companies at the forefront of practical and tactical innovations for health鈥
AHA Maternal and Child Health Council Chair Lara Khouri talks with SteelSky Ventures Founding Partner Maria Velissaris about women鈥檚 health and innovation through a health equity lens.