/ en Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:55:59 -0500 Fri, 18 Apr 25 13:14:34 -0500 /news/headline/2025-04-18-study-finds-connection-between-hearing-loss-and-dementia <p>A <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/article-abstract/2832869" target="_blank">study</a> published April 17 by JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery found that up to 32% of dementia cases from 2011-2019 could be attributed to hearing loss confirmed through testing. Self-reported hearing loss was not associated with higher dementia risk.</p> Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:14:34 -0500 Data & Insights /aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan/2025-04-21-driving-drivers <div class="raw-html-embed"> </div><div> /* Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar */ .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar { position: relative; display: block; overflow: hidden; max-width: 1170px; margin: 0px auto 25px auto; } .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { position: absolute; bottom: 40px; color: #003087; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .8); width: 100%; padding: 20px 40px; font-size: 3em; box-shadow: 0 3px 8px -5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .6); } @media (max-width:991px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 2.5em; } } @media (max-width:767px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { font-size: 2em; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; } } @media (max-width:530px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { position: relative; background-color: #63666A22; } } /* Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar // */ <header class="Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-01/Trailblazers_Amazon_banner_1170x250.png" alt="Cover of Driving the Drivers: How hospitals and health systems can leverage technology and workflow optimization to address health-related social needs" width="1168" height="250"><div><h1>Driving the Drivers</h1></div></header></div> h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>How hospitals and health systems can leverage technology and workflow optimization to address health-related social needs.</h2><p>Addressing a patient’s social care needs can be a challenging journey for hospitals and health systems. It begins with screening a patient for health-related social needs (HRSN) and, ideally, ends with the patient being connected to the resources they need to experience better health outcomes.</p><p>How can hospitals and health systems reduce those gaps in the HRSN journey for themselves, their clinicians, their staff and, most importantly, their patients and communities? Technology-driven automation is the answer.</p><p>Screening patients for HRSN needs and using those data hit the four targets in the Quadruple Aim. It’s the people who use technology-driven automation to improve SDOH screening processes and measure the results. These results enhance patient experience, improve population health, reduce costs and improve the work life of health care providers.</p><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><p><strong>Sponsored by:</strong><a href="https://uniteus.com/" target="_blank" title="UniteUs"><strong><img src="/sites/default/files/2020-05/Logo_UniteUs_834x313.jpg" alt="UniteUs logo" width="834" height="313"></strong></a></p></div></div></div><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-01/Trailblazers_logo-924x265.png" alt="TrailBlazers" width="100%" height="100%"><p><br><a href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Driving the Drivers: How hospitals and health systems can leverage technology and workflow optimization to address health-related social needs"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-04/Traiblazers_UniteUs_cover_777x600.png" alt="Cover, Driving the Drivers: How hospitals and health systems can leverage technology and workflow optimization to address health-related social needs" width="100%" height="100%"> </a><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Driving the Drivers: How hospitals and health systems can leverage technology and workflow optimization to address health-related social needs">Download</a></p></div></div> .y-hr3 div:nth-child(2) { border-top: solid 15px #67c1c3; margin: 50px 0px; height: 0px; <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"><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-04/Trailblazers_UniteUs_FirstSection_700x1064.png" alt="Illustration of various types of people walking around" width="100%" height="100%"></div><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Capitalizing on Opportunities</h2><p>Technology-driven automation can help provider organizations capitalize on these opportunities in the following ways:</p><ul><li><strong>Enhanced Patient Experience:</strong> <br>Screening allows health care providers to understand the patient’s full context and tailor care accordingly, leading to a more patient-centered approach.</li><li><strong>Improved Patient Outcomes:</strong> <br>By identifying and addressing social needs, health care providers can help patients overcome barriers to accessing care and improving their health.</li><li><strong>Reduced Health Care Costs:</strong> <br>Addressing social needs can prevent unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency department visits, ultimately reducing health care costs.</li><li><strong>Strengthened Community Partnerships:</strong> <br>Screening initiatives can help hospitals build relationships with community organizations, creating a network of resources to support patients’ needs.</li></ul><p><a href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Driving the Drivers: How hospitals and health systems can leverage technology and workflow optimization to address health-related social needs"><strong>READ MORE.</strong></a></p></div></div><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"><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-04/Trailblazers_UniteUs_Presbyterian_700x532.png" alt="Exterior of Presbyterian Healthcare Services" width="700" height="532"></div><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Case Study: Presbyterian Healthcare Services</h2><h3>From ‘Scattershot’ to Standardized</h3><p>In 2018, PHS adopted the screening system and used it for the accountable health communities project before scaling up to systemwide screening and integrating it into the EHR in 2021. In early 2024, PHS migrated to Unite Us. The three systems — HRSN screening, EHR and portal — now work in concert to power the HRSN screening process as part of routine health care. 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CMS said it is seeking participation from IPFs in different regions and both rural and urban areas. </p> Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:55:20 -0500 Data & Insights /statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals <div class="raw-html-embed"> .resource-block-header .resource-block-title small { color: black; } <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <div> <div class="data-content-section"> <div class="data-section-blurb"> <p class="text-align-center"> <strong>With ���������� Association’s rich and growing set of data, we’re empowering hospitals, health systems and their business partners to discover new directions, set strategies and plan actions for success in today’s evolving health care landscape.</strong> </p> </div> </div> <div class="data-content-section"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-5 text-align-right"> <img alt="hospital icon" src="/sites/default/files/2023-04/Hospital2_icon.png" class="align-right"> </div> <div class="col-md-7"> <p> <span>Data provided by</span> <span>over 6,200 hospitals and 400 health care systems</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-5 text-align-right"> <img alt="data icon" src="/sites/default/files/2023-04/Computer_Data_icon.png"> </div> <div class="col-md-7"> <p> <span>Featuring</span> <span>over 1,300 hospital data points</span> <span>directly from the source</span> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="external-link spacer"> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="https://www.ahadata.com" target="_blank" title="AHA Data & Insights homepage.">Learn More About AHA Data</a> </div> <div> <h2 id="datatable"> U.S. Hospital Statistics </h2> <h3> Number of Hospitals, Staffed Hospital Beds, and Admissions </h3> <div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="table table-bordered" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="80%"> <p> <strong>Total Number of All U.S. Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 6,093 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of U.S. <strong>Community</strong><sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 5,112 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of Nongovernment Not-for-Profit Community Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 2,978 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of Investor-Owned (For-Profit) Community Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 1,214 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of State and Local Government Community Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 920 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of Federal Government Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 207 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Number of Nonfederal Psychiatric Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 654 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Other</strong><sup><a href="#footnote2">2</a></sup> Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 120 </p> </td> </tr> <td> <p> Number of Hospital Units of Institutions<br /> (Prison Hospitals, College Infirmaries, Etc.) </p> </td> <td> <p align="right">   10  </p> </td> </tr> --> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Total Staffed Beds in All U.S. </strong><strong>Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 913,136 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Staffed Beds in Community<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 781,148 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Total Admissions in All U.S. Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 34,426,650 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Admissions in Community<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> Hospitals </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 32,345,846 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Number of Rural Community Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 1,796 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Number of Urban Community Hospitals</strong> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 3,316 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <strong>Number of Community Hospitals in a System</strong><sup><a href="#footnote3">3</a></sup> </p> </td> <td> <p align="right"> 3,525 </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <hr> <ol> <li id="footnote1"> <strong>Community hospitals</strong> are defined as all nonfederal, short-term general, and other special hospitals. Other special hospitals include obstetrics and gynecology; eye, ear, nose, and throat; long-term acute-care; rehabilitation; orthopedic; and other individually described specialty services. Community hospitals include academic medical centers or other teaching hospitals if they are nonfederal short-term hospitals. Excluded are hospitals not accessible by the general public, such as prison hospitals or college infirmaries. </li> <li id="footnote2"> <strong>Other hospitals</strong> include nonfederal long term care hospitals and hospital units within an institution such as a prison hospital or school infirmary. Long-term care hospitals may be defined by different methods; here they include other hospitals with an average length of stay of 30 or more days. </li> <li id="footnote3"> <strong>System</strong> is defined by AHA as either a multihospital or a diversified single hospital system. A multihospital system is two or more hospitals owned, leased, sponsored, or contract managed by a central organization. Single, freestanding hospitals may be categorized as a system by bringing into membership three or more, and at least 25 percent, of their owned or leased non-hospital pre-acute or post-acute health care organizations. 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Not only does the scan contribute to strategic planning efforts, but it also helps the field tell the hospital and health system story to colleagues, the public, the media and policymakers. This presentation is designed to help you tell your story and share insights with various community stakeholders.</p><p>Please delete any slides you do not need before giving the presentation. We also encourage you to personalize the presentation by adding examples of how these issues are playing out in your organization and community.</p><p>Additional planning resources:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.shsmd.org/futurescan" title="Futurescan">Futurescan</a></li><li><a href="/aha-workforce-scan" title="Workforce Scan">2025 AHA Health Care Workforce Scan</a></li></ul></div><div class="col-sm-4"><div class="panel panel-default"><div class="panel-heading"><h3>Environmental Scan</h3></div><div class="panel-body"><p><a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="/environmentalscan" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Latest Edition</a></p></div></div></div></div> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0600 Data & Insights /news/headline/2024-11-19-aha-releases-latest-trendwatch-chartbook <p>The AHA has released its newest <a href="https://ams.aha.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?WebCode=ProdDetailAdd&ivd_prc_prd_key=83c45a15-84e3-43ae-8ec7-25bdf974001c">TrendWatch Chartbook</a>, which presents the latest data on topics impacting hospitals and health systems, from health care spending, coverage and use to organizational and workforce trends. AHA members should <a href="/">log in</a> to freely access the chartbook, also available to non-members for purchase.</p> Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:56:15 -0600 Data & Insights /aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan/2024-11-15-mobilizing-data-improve-operational-efficiency <div class="raw-html-embed"> </div><div> /* Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar */ .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar { position: relative; display: block; overflow: hidden; max-width: 1170px; margin: 0px auto 25px auto; } .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { position: absolute; bottom: 40px; color: #003087; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .8); width: 100%; padding: 20px 40px; font-size: 3em; box-shadow: 0 3px 8px -5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .6); } @media (max-width:991px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 2.5em; } } @media (max-width:767px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { font-size: 2em; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; } } @media (max-width:530px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { position: relative; background-color: #63666A22; } } /* Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar // */ <header class="Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-01/Trailblazers_Amazon_banner_1170x250.png" alt="Cover of Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency " width="1168" height="250"><div><h1>Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency</h1></div></header></div> h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Orchestrating care delivery through technology can improve clinical, financial, administrative and workplace performance</h2><p>Hospitals and health systems that build integrated, efficiency-producing data ecosystems by investing in cloud-managed, AI-driven RTLS, IoT and AI technology can convert their new superpower — automated capacity management — into virtually limitless operational, clinical, financial, administrative and workforce benefits.</p><p>Hospitals and health systems that build such an integrated, efficiency-producing data ecosystem acquire new capabilities. In real time, at any point in the patient journey, the hospitals and health systems now know:</p><ul><li>Where a patient is physically at any point in real time.</li><li>Where a patient is medically, in terms of treatment plan.</li><li>Where a patient is medically, in terms of medical condition or health status.</li><li>What clinical staff are available to care for a patient.</li><li>What medical equipment or other clinical assets are available to care for a patient.</li><li>What clinical space is available to care for a patient.</li></ul><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><p><strong>Sponsored by:</strong><a href="https://kontakt.io/solutions/healthcare/" target="_blank" title="kontakt.io | Creating Responsive Health Systems"><strong><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-11/Logo_Kontakt_transparent_834x313.png" alt="kontakt.io logo" width="834" height="313"></strong></a></p></div></div></div><div class="col-sm-4"><a href="https://kontakt.io/solutions/healthcare/" target="_blank" title="kontakt.io | Creating Responsive Health Systems"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-01/Trailblazers_logo-924x265.png" alt="TrailBlazers logo" width="100%" height="100%"></a><p><br><a href="#DownloadNow" title="Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency | Orchestrating care delivery through technology can improve clinical, financial, administrative and workplace performance"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-11/Traiblazers_Kontakt_cover_777x600.png" alt="Cover, Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency | Orchestrating care delivery through technology can improve clinical, financial, administrative and workplace performance" width="100%" height="100%"> </a><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency | Orchestrating care delivery through technology can improve clinical, financial, administrative and workplace performance">Download</a></p></div></div> .y-hr3 div:nth-child(2) { border-top: solid 15px #67c1c3; margin: 50px 0px; height: 0px; <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"> <img src="/sites/default/files/2024-11/Trailblazers_Kontakt_HCA_700x532.png" alt="xxxxxxxxxxxx"> </div>--><div class="col-sm-5 col-md-6"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-11/Trailblazers_Kontakt_Section1-infographic.png" alt="An integrated, efficiently-produced data ecosystem model | * Existing Administrative, Clinical and Financial IT System: EHR, Patient Accounting, Other administrative systems, Other clinical systems, other financial systems * AI-Powered Cloud-managed Platform: Inform, Predict, Recommend, Orchestrate * New RTLS Data: Patients, Clinical staff, Medical equipment and other assists, Clinical spaces" width="1500" height="1021"></div><div class="col-sm-7 col-md-6"> /* Just for this one */ @media (min-width:1200px){ h2.HeaderMobileShift{ margin-top: 50px; } } <h2 class="HeaderMobileShift">Using Data to Become More Efficient</h2><p>Improving clinical operational efficiency and using new technologies to mitigate administrative burdens among staff rank high on health care leaders’ priority list. Digital technologies and other HIT systems can help organizations become more efficient by:</p><ul><li>Capturing new data.</li><li>Consolidating and contextualizing data to predict inefficiencies in workflows.</li><li>Point to solutions to mitigate these inefficiencies now and in the future.</li></ul><p><a href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency | Orchestrating care delivery through technology can improve clinical, financial, administrative and workplace performance"><strong>READ MORE.</strong></a></p></div></div><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"><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-11/Trailblazers_Kontakt_NE_Georgia_HealthSystem_700x532.png" alt="Medical staff" width="700" height="532"></div><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Case Study: Northeast Georgia Health System</h2><h3>Improving Workplace Safety</h3><p>To ensure the safety and well-being of staff and patients as well as to show the larger community that it is committed to providing a safe and secure work environment, NGHS leadership has implemented a safety solution at a scale that protects both staff and patients in all EDs, inpatient units, ICUs, procedural areas, and more.</p><p><a href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency | Orchestrating care delivery through technology can improve clinical, financial, administrative and workplace performance"><strong>READ MORE.</strong></a></p></div></div><div> .SponsorMarketoForm { background-color: ; padding:5px 25px; border: solid 2px #307FE2; margin:50px 15px 0px !important; display:inline-block; } .SponsorMarketoForm h3{ margin:10x 0 0 0 ; color:#eaaa00; font-size:.7em; text-transform:uppercase; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:3px; max-width:200px; /* Custom for the copy length */ background-color:#fff; padding: 5px 15px; position:relative; top:-35px; height: 0px; } .SponsorMarketoForm h2{ color: #002855; } .SponsorMarketoForm .SponsorMarketoFormHolder{ background-color: ; padding:15px; display: inline-block; margin-bottom:25px; } .SponsorMarketoFormHolder form{ margin: auto; } @media (max-width:640px){ .SponsorMarketoForm { padding:5px 0px; } .SponsorMarketoForm .SponsorMarketoFormHolder{ padding:15px 0px; } } /* Marketo Over-ride */ .mktoForm .mktoFormRow:nth-child(3){ float: left; } /*Center the last row .mktoForm .mktoFormRow:nth-child(4){ margin-left:15%; } */ .mktoForm label{ font-size: 0px; width: 0px !important; } .mktoForm input{ height: 30px } .mktoForm .mktoButtonRow{ float: left; } .mktoForm .mktoButtonWrap { margin-left:20px !important; } .mktoForm .mktoButton { background-color: #307FE2 !important; border: 1px solid #307FE2 !important; color: #fff !important; padding: 0.4em 1em; font-size: 1em; background-image: none !important; min-width: 190px; margin: 0 15px; border-radius: 4px; padding: 10px 20px; transition: all .25s ease-in-out; text-shadow: none; white-space: normal; height: 30px; font-weight: 700 } .mktoForm .mktoButton:hover{ background-color: #002855 !important; border: 1px solid #002855 !important; color: #fff !important; } .mktoForm .mktoClear { clear: none; } <div class="row spacer" id="DownloadNow"><div><div class="col-md-1"> </div><div class="col-md-10"><div class="cta--image-container full_width SponsorMarketoForm"><h3>Download Now</h3><div class="col-sm-9"><h2>Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency</h2><div class="SponsorMarketoFormHolder">   MktoForms2.loadForm("//sponsors.aha.org", "710-ZLL-651", 3641); MktoForms2.whenReady(function(form) { if (form.getId() == 3641) { form.onSuccess(function(values, followUpUrl) { form.getFormElem().hide(); document.getElementById("successAndErrorMessages").innerHTML = "<div><p>Thank you for downloading the latest AHA Trailblazers.<\/p><a class='btn btn-wide btn-primary' data-view-context='top-level-view' href='https:\/\/www.aha.org\/system\/files\/media\/file\/2024\/11\/Trailblazers_Kontakt.pdf' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer nofollow'>Download the Report<\/a><\/center><\/div>"; return false; }); }; }); <div id="successAndErrorMessages"> </div></div></div><div class="col-sm-3"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-11/Traiblazers_Kontakt_cover_777x600.png" alt="Thriving in the New Health Care Economy | How Hospitals and Health Systems Can Pivot Their Operating Models for Sustainability" width="600" height="777"></div></div></div><div class="col-md-1"> </div></div></div></div> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:00:00 -0600 Data & Insights <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-8"><p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in an Oct. 16 webinar, provided updates on the new hospital respiratory data condition of participation (CoP). During the webinar, representatives from the CDC and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) confirmed that most hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) will be required to begin submitting weekly COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syntactical virus (RSV) data starting the week of Nov. 3. Freestanding and hospital-based inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) will report annually, beginning January 2025.</p><p>The CDC strongly encouraged hospitals to access the agency’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) system to voluntarily report data before enforcement begins. CDC asked that hospitals submit only accurate data, not test data. Data collection forms and instructions, including the hospital respiratory data protocol, are available on the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/psc/hospital-respiratory-reporting.html">CDC website</a> and should be reviewed prior to reporting. CMS expects to release guidance in the next few days with additional information on its compliance assessment and enforcement. AHA will share information on this guidance with members as soon as it is available.</p><h2>BACKGROUND</h2><p>In 2020, CMS adopted a CoP requiring hospitals and CAHs to submit certain data related to COVID-19 and other acute respiratory illnesses (i.e., influenza) to the CDC for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). In 2022, CMS updated the CoP to require reporting from the conclusion of the PHE through April 30, 2024. Following the expiration of that CoP, CMS stated that it continues to need to monitor the impact of acute respiratory illnesses across the country to inform federal surveillance efforts.</p><p>In August, CMS <a href="/system/files/media/file/2024/08/inpatient-pps-final-rule-for-fy-2025-advisory-8-14-2024.pdf">finalized</a> a new permanent CoP requiring hospitals and CAHs to report certain COVID-19, influenza and RSV data to assist with these surveillance efforts and inform hospital-level infection control and prevention efforts. Beginning in November, CMS will require hospitals and CAHs (other than IRFs and IPFs) to report data once per week on confirmed infections of COVID-19, influenza and RSV among hospitalized patients, hospital capacity and limited patient demographic information, including age. IRFs and IPFs will report annually, starting in January 2025.</p><h2>WHAT YOU CAN DO</h2><ul><li>Share this Special Bulletin with leaders responsible for regulatory compliance and quality and infection data reporting, such as your chief quality, medical or nursing officers.</li><li>Review the reporting information on the CDC’s NHSN website.</li><li>Watch for CMS’ forthcoming guidance and any reporting updates from CDC NHSN.</li></ul><h2>FURTHER QUESTIONS</h2><p>The CDC’s reporting protocol, data collection forms and fact sheets, and other training materials and resources are available on the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/psc/hospital-respiratory-reporting.html">CDC hospital respiratory data website</a>. Hospitals may send questions to <a href="mailto:NHSN@cdc.gov">NHSN@cdc.gov</a> using the subject line “Hospital Respiratory Data.”</p><p>If you have further questions, please contact Adrienne Thomas, AHA’s senior associate director for standards and care delivery, at <a href="mailto:athomas@aha.org">athomas@aha.org</a>, or Akin Demehin, AHA’s senior director of quality and patient safety policy, at <a href="mailto:ademehin@aha.org">ademehin@aha.org</a>.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="/system/files/media/file/2024/10/cdc-provides-updates-on-new-hospital-respiratory-data-condition-of-participation-bulletin-10-17-2024.pdf"><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/cover-cdc-provides-updates-on-new-hospital-respiratory-data-condition-of-participation-bulletin-10-17-2024.png" data-entity-uuid="6017e5ff-ddb8-4e7f-8e0a-391f899166a6" data-entity-type="file" alt="Image Special Bulletin Cover Page" width="679" height="878"></a></div></div></div> Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:56:41 -0500 Data & Insights /aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan/2024-07-15-delivering-actionable-data-clinicians-point-care <div class="raw-html-embed"> </div><div> /* Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar */ .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar { position: relative; display: block; overflow: hidden; max-width: 1170px; margin: 0px auto 25px auto; } .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { position: absolute; bottom: 40px; color: #003087; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .8); width: 100%; padding: 20px 40px; font-size: 3em; box-shadow: 0 3px 8px -5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .6); } @media (max-width:991px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 2.5em; } } @media (max-width:767px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { font-size: 2em; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; } } @media (max-width:530px) { .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar h1 { position: relative; background-color: #63666A22; } } /* Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar // */ <header class="Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-01/Trailblazers_Amazon_banner_1170x250.png" alt="Cover of Streamlining Supply Chain Practices as Health Systems Expand" width="1168" height="250"><div><h1>Delivering Actionable Data to Clinicians at the Point of Care</h1></div></header></div> h2{ margin-top: 0px; } p.center_Intro { color: #002855; line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 30px; margin: 10px 0 25px 0; font-weight: 700; font-size: 2em; } p.center_Lead { color: #63666A; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="row"><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Higher Expectations Redefine the Health Care Landscape</h2><p>Every patient or family member has a customer service story to tell from their experiences with the health care system. Many stories aren’t flattering. Earned or not, health care doesn’t have the same customer service reputation as many well-known brands in the retail world like Amazon, Apple or Ritz Carlton.</p><p>Historically, the consumer experiences underlying the reputation didn’t hurt provider organizations like hospitals, health systems and physician practices from clinical, financial or operational standpoints. The reasons ranged from clinical reputation, brand loyalty and unbreakable doctor-patient relationships to narrow-network health insurance benefits and geographic market advantages.</p><p>But those reasons are crumbling before the eyes of most provider organizations. New market entrants, nontraditional health care competitors, vertically integrated health care conglomerates, new patient care modalities, breakthrough medical technologies, innovative digital health technologies, new value-based reimbursement models and — most importantly — new consumer expectations are quickly redefining the health care landscape.</p><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-12"><p><strong>Sponsored by:</strong><a href="https://michealthcare.com" target="_blank" title="Medical Infromatics"><strong><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-07/Medical_Informatics_logo_834x313.png" alt="Medical Infromatics logo" width="834" height="313"></strong></a></p><p> </p></div><p> </p></div><p> </p></div><p> </p><div class="col-sm-4"><p> </p><a href="https://michealthcare.com" target="_blank" title="Medical Infromatics"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-01/Trailblazers_logo-924x265.png" alt="TrailBlazers" width="100%" height="100%"></a><p><br><a href="#DownloadNow" title="Delivering Actionable Data to Clinicians at the Point of Care"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-07/Traiblazers_Medical_Infromatics_cover_777x600.png" alt="Cover, Delivering Actionable Data to Clinicians at the Point of Care" width="100%" height="100%"> </a><br><a class="btn btn-primary" href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Delivering Actionable Data to Clinicians at the Point of Care">Download</a></p></div></div> .y-hr3 div:nth-child(2) { border-top: solid 15px #67c1c3; margin: 50px 0px; height: 0px; <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"><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-07/Trailblazers_Medical_Infromatics_Section1_700x532.png" alt="Medical staff working on a computer in patients room" width="100%" height="100%"></div><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Defining Actionable Data at the Point of Care</h2><p>Delivering actionable data to clinicians at the point of care in real time is a buzzy statement. But what does it mean in terms of technology and functionality?</p><p>It means feeding into and displaying all relevant data clinicians need to assess and treat a patient on a single, customizable dashboard. The data elements fed into and displayed on the single dashboard include core vital signs, metrics from other medical devices and lines connected to an individual patient.</p><p><a href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Delivering Actionable Data to Clinicians at the Point of Care"><strong>READ MORE.</strong></a></p></div></div><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"><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-07/Trailblazers_Medical_Infromatics_GuthrieClinic_700x532.png" alt="Exterior of Guthrie Clinic" width="700" height="532"></div><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Case Study: Guthrie Clinic</h2><h3>Expanding the Reach of a Contracted Workforce</h3><p>Guthrie Clinic’s centralized patient command center allows remote nurses to observe patients visually using a software-based monitoring and analytics platform, cameras and two-way audio communication</p><p><a href="#DownloadNow" title="Download, Delivering Actionable Data to Clinicians at the Point of Care"><strong>READ MORE.</strong></a></p></div></div><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"><div class="col-sm-4"><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-07/Trailblazers_Medical_Infromatics_MichiganMedicine_700x532.png" alt="Exterior of Michigan Medicine" width="700" height="532"></div><div class="col-sm-8"><h2>Case Study: Michigan Medicine</h2><h3>Eliminating a Paper Trail and Improving Patient Care</h3><p>Michigan Medicine has implemented a cloud-based technology platform that enables clinicians to access real-time data from any patient from anywhere on any connected HIPAA-compliant device. 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A green piggy bank sits on an adding machine keyboard while digital markets analytics display in the background." width="100%" height="100%"><p>Health care executives continue to place a high priority on digital, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics transformation, but 75% lack sufficient resources or planning in this area.</p><p>That’s the key finding from a recent <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare/our-insights/digital-transformation-health-systems-investment-priorities" title="McKinsey & Company: Digital transformation: Health systems’ investment priorities" target=")_blank">McKinsey & Company survey report</a>, which explains that executives’ investment priorities often don’t align with areas they believe could have the most impact.</p><p>For example, while 88% of respondents believe AI could have a high potential impact on their organizations, about 20% don’t plan to invest in it in the next two years. The absence of investment in a robust, modern data and analytics platform could delay valuation creation in areas that depend on these capabilities, including efforts to close care gaps, improve timely access for referrals and optimize operating room throughput, the authors state.</p><p>Unsurprisingly, budget constraints were cited as one of the top three key obstacles by more than half the respondents (51%) to investing at scale across all digital and AI categories of interest. Challenges with legacy systems were the second most common challenge. Other highly ranked challenges include data quality (33%), tech talent and recruiting (30%) and readiness to adopt and scale new technology (34%).</p><h2><span>4 Takeaways from the Survey</span></h2><p>Delivering digital value for providers requires investment and new ways of working, according to the report. Here are some ways the authors suggest hospitals and health systems can respond.</p><h3><span>1</span> <span>|</span> Build partnerships.</h3><p>Joint ventures and alliances may offer a promising avenue to new capabilities, increase speed to market and achieve capital, scale and operational efficiencies.</p><h3><span>2</span> <span>|</span> Move beyond off-the-shelf solutions.</h3><p>History shows that deploying tech such as electronic health records (EHRs) on top of inefficient processes and clinical workflows doesn’t lead to value. Realizing value from health IT systems will require reimagination and standardization of clinical workflows and care models across organizations.</p><p>Optimizing workflows to enable more appropriate delegation, for example, could yield a potential 15% to 30% net time savings over a 12-hour shift. This could help close the nursing workforce gap by as many as 300,000 inpatients nurses, according to a 2023 McKinsey analysis.</p><h3><span>3</span> <span>|</span> Operate differently.</h3><p>This entails making fundamental changes in structure (flatter, empowered, cross-functional teams), talent (new skill sets and fully dedicated teams) and technology (modular architecture, cloud-based data systems and reduced reliance on the monolithic EHR). With these changes, some health systems have begun to see value within six months. Building a digital culture will help the transformation succeed over time.</p><h3><span>4</span> <span>|</span> Cautiously embrace generative AI.</h3><p>This technology has the potential to affect everything from continuity of care and clinical operations to contracting and corporate functions. Nevertheless, many executives and patients have concerns about the risks of AI, particularly in relation to patient care and privacy. Managing these risks entails placing business-minded legal and risk-management teams alongside AI and data science teams. 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