/ en Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:53:24 -0500 Tue, 28 Jan 25 06:15:00 -0600 /2025-01-28-3-top-takeaways-health-care-2025-forecasts <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-8"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/3-Top-Takeaways-from-Health-Care-2025-Forecasts.png" data-entity-uuid="1c55b35f-0a86-42f4-8bb6-0f2e68401b7b" data-entity-type="file" alt="3 Top Takeaways from Health Care 2025 Forecasts. A pair of hands holding a globe that displays the words, "2025 Forecast."" width="100%" height="100%"></p><p>Three things are certain in this world: death, taxes and health care predictions for 2025. Each year we review a slew of health care outlooks and, after sifting through them, here are a few of the more interesting hypotheses.</p><h2><span><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Address-workforce-challenges-and-strengthen-core-business-technologies-icon.png" data-entity-uuid="db2deb57-cb3b-41f6-9952-dd0f7bd8413c" data-entity-type="file" alt="Address workforce challenges and strengthen core business technologies.icon." width="524" height="612" class="align-left">1</span> <span>|</span> Address workforce challenges and strengthen core business technologies.</h2><p>Workforce will continue to be a key focus for hospitals and health systems. More than half (58%) of health system executives expect workforce challenges, such as talent shortages, retention issues and the need for upskilling to influence their organizational strategies in 2025, according to <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/health-care/life-sciences-and-health-care-industry-outlooks/2025-us-health-care-executive-outlook.html" target="_blank" title="Deloitte Life Sciences & Health Care: 2025 US health care outlook">Deloitte’s 2025 U.S. Health Care Outlook</a>.</p><p>While workforce challenges remain a top concern, the urgency has decreased compared to two years ago when 85% of executives cited these issues during a substantial exodus of clinical staff, as noted in previous Deloitte U.S. health care outlook surveys. Despite this, many health systems still face clinical talent shortages, clinician burnout and rising labor costs. In 2025, health system leaders have an opportunity to rebuild trust and restore a sense of meaning, value and purpose in their employees’ job.</p><h3>Takeaway</h3><p>The report suggests health care leaders can:</p><ul><li><strong>Redesign work teams.</strong> Health systems can establish comprehensive interdisciplinary care teams, provide curated training programs and map out new career paths for their staff to enhance employees’ connection to the organization and acknowledge their important roles.</li><li><strong>Invest in cost-saving technologies.</strong> According to the Deloitte workforce technology study, generative AI and automation technologies can cut in half the amount of time revenue cycle staff spend on mundane tasks and give bedside nurses 20% more time to spend on direct patient care. Health systems should consider leveraging these technologies and exploring new work modalities, such as virtual nursing, to enable remote work possibilities for clinical staff.</li><li><strong>Prioritize equity in design.</strong> All technology and operational investments and implementation projects at health systems should help ensure equitable access, experience and impact for all users — consumers, clinicians and administrative staff. Understanding the needs and impacts of different populations from a technology or operational change and intentionally designing to meet those needs or mitigate those impacts can help ensure broader adoption.</li></ul><h2><span><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Getting-upstream-of-patient-burnout-is-critical-icon_0.png" data-entity-uuid="b8f8e55e-8c12-41f1-a3b9-d4a503dddab7" data-entity-type="file" alt="Getting upstream of patient burnout is critical icon." width="524" height="612" class="align-left">2</span> <span>|</span> Getting upstream of patient burnout is critical.</h2><p>Many patients who live with chronic disease face symptoms of burnout that can lead to detrimental disengagement from their care, notes a <a href="https://medcitynews.com/2025/01/will-2025-be-the-year-of-patient-burnout/" target="_blank" title="MedCity News: Will 2025 Be the Year of Patient Burnout?">recent essay</a> by Tony Vahedian, CEO of CCS, a provider of clinical programs and home-delivered medical supplies for those living with diabetes or other chronic conditions.</p><p>The coming year will be a critical time for providers and payers to focus on this issue and find ways to provide care in a coordinated and personalized manner, he explained. Diabetes, for example, is a disease of overwhelming, nonstop decision-making, requiring people to stay one step ahead of countless factors each day, including diet and exercise, medications, device readings, doctors’ appointments, insurance coverage and more. Add the usual stressors of family, work and socializing, and it’s a recipe for burnout, also known as “diabetes distress,” which affects 30%-40% of <a href="https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/professionals/diabetes-discoveries-practice/diabetes-distress-and-depression?#:~:text=Diabetes%20distress%20is%20much%20more,of%20diabetes%20distress%20over%20time." target="_blank" title="National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Diabetes Discoveries & Practice Blog: Diabetes Distress and Depression">people with diabetes</a>.</p><h3>Takeaway</h3><p>A key step will be to bring together stakeholders this year to help providers and payers better understand how a person’s ability to engage in self-care and collaborative care can be tied to their level of physical, emotional and administrative distress in coping with the disease day to day. The challenge will be to better understand how to develop proactive, person-centered solutions that address the root causes of distress before they lead to detrimental disengagement.</p><h2><span><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Heres-where-AI-will-make-a-tangible-impact-icon.png" data-entity-uuid="cb49796e-b85c-48a0-9f28-ea1c0f762bd1" data-entity-type="file" alt="Here's where AI will make a tangible impact icon." width="524" height="612" class="align-left">3</span> <span>|</span> Here's where AI will make a tangible impact.</h2><p>Look for the dust to begin to settle around the hype and grandiose promises regarding artificial intelligence in health care and gen AI, notes a <a href="https://assets.contenthub.wolterskluwer.com/api/public/content/2564626-wolters-kluwer-health-2025-predictions-report-pdf-ca08967512?v=cb72af70" target="_blank" title="Wolters Kluwer Health 25 for '25 expert predictions report: Driving momentum in healthcare technology amid dramatic change">Wolters Kluwer Health forecast</a>.</p><p>The top three growth AI areas to watch include improving workflows, enhancing clinician workforce development and patient safety, according to Stacey Caywood, Wolters Kluwer Health CEO. Caywood expects there will more synergies and partnerships to emerge between AI and complementary technologies that serve as a force multiplier for the potential of AI to drive efficiency in the clinical workflow, provide relief from burnout and deliver value for health systems.</p><h3>Takeaway</h3><p>Amid staffing shortages, 2025 will see AI helping future clinicians get on a fast track to practice-readiness. Nursing education tools are being wholly rethought to leverage the capabilities of AI. For example, AI has the potential to boost nurses’ licensure prep so students learn from mistakes with smarter, more personalized reinforcement. Look for AI chatbots to transform virtual reality training by providing lifelike conversations with virtual patients. AI also will accelerate the development and adoption of clinical practice changes as hospital nursing leaders turn to AI to power the often-cumbersome process of updating nursing practice protocols.</p><p>Also, look for AI to play a bigger part in patient safety this year, Caywood says. In 2025, she anticipates that solutions will dig deeper into live health data to identify disconnects in care that often are overlooked and can impact patient safety. “Imagine an AI ‘helper app’ that works 24/7 in the background to identify instances where health care providers may miss a potential test or therapy for a patient,” she says.</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; } h3 { color: #9d2235; } Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:15:00 -0600 Health Equity /news/headline/2025-01-17-ifdhe-infographic-highlights-community-collaboration-achieving-health-equity <p>The AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s newly released <a href="https://ifdhe.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2025/01/Community-Collaborations-how-can-hospitals-collaborate-effectively-with-their-communities.pdf">infographic</a> highlights the importance of leveraging community collaborations to achieve equitable health outcomes for all populations. It is the second installment of IFDHE’s Health Equity Toolbox series.</p> Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:59:00 -0600 Health Equity /news/headline/2025-01-08-aha-podcast-health-equity-transformation-fuels-behavioral-health-access-boston-medical-center <p>In this conversation, three experts from Boston Medical Center discuss the development of its Health Equity Accelerator, the partnerships needed to sustain the work and how BMC was able to expand access to behavioral health services to historically underserved communities. <a href="/advancing-health-podcast/2025-01-08-health-equity-transformation-fuels-behavioral-health-access-boston-medical-center?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aha-today">LISTEN NOW </a></p><p> </p><div></div> Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:28:46 -0600 Health Equity /role-hospitals-penn-state-health-new-center-study-health-disparities-impacting-rural-underserved-communities-pa <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-7"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-01/THS-penn-state-rural-equity-700x532.jpg" data-entity-uuid data-entity-type="file" alt="Penn State Health. A male physician speaks with a little girl seated on her mother's lap at a rural clinic." width="700" height="532" class="align-left"></p></div><p>Penn State College of Medicine has launched the Center for Advancing Health Equity in Rural and Underserved Communities. The center's initial focus is on reducing cancer health disparities and improving health literacy and education in cardiovascular health, cancer, and diabetes for minority, underserved, and rural populations. In the long term, the center aims to expand patient-centered health research grounded in precision medicine and implementation science to address health disparities.</p><p>“Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease experienced by populations that are historically and systematically disadvantaged,” Dr. Karen Kim, dean of Penn State College of Medicine, said in a news release.</p><p>The center will collaborate with Penn State Health's community health care and health equity teams. It is an academic-community partnership with the national nonprofit Asian Health Coalition. The center aims to expand Penn State's research programs to offer a blueprint for addressing health equity locally and nationally.</p><p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.pennlive.com/health/2024/11/new-center-to-study-health-disparities-impacting-rural-underserved-communities-in-pa.html" target="_blank" title="Learn More">LEARN MORE</a></p></div></div><div class="col-md-3"><div><h4>Resources on the Role of Hospitals</h4><ul><li><a href="/advocacy/access-and-health-coverage">Access to Care</a></li><li><a href="/roleofhospitals">All Case Studies</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div> Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:59:53 -0600 Health Equity /news/headline/2024-12-11-aha-podcast-health-equity-center-rural-care <p>In this conversation, Terry Scoggin, CEO of Titus Regional Medical Center, discusses how the organization designed a system of care to ensure that every patient has equitable access, and how the AHA's Health Equity Roadmap has provided valuable resources to support Titus’ mission of transforming the health of its communities. <a href="/advancing-health-podcast/2024-12-11-health-equity-center-rural-care"><strong>LISTEN NOW</strong></a></p><div><strong></strong></div> Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:04:04 -0600 Health Equity /news/headline/2024-12-11-hhs-releases-tefca-final-rule <p>The Department of Health and Human Services Dec. 11 published a <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2024-29163/health-data-technology-and-interoperability-trusted-exchange-framework-and-common-agreement">final rule</a> implementing provisions related to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement. The rule is intended to advance equity, innovation and interoperability by promoting the use and exchange of electronically captured health information as specified in certain provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.  <br><br>The provisions today's final rule adopts were first proposed in August as part of a <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/05/2024-14975/health-data-technology-and-interoperability-patient-engagement-information-sharing-and-public-health">much larger rule</a> and will be effective 30 days after it is officially published in the Federal Register. The AHA will soon provide members with additional details on the rule.</p> Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:01:37 -0600 Health Equity /role-hospitals-indiana-university-health-working-all-angles-indy-health-district-supports-health-every-side <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-7"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-12/ths-indiana-university-health-indy-health-district-700x532.jpg" data-entity-uuid data-entity-type="file" alt="IU Health. Indy Health District community members and leaders" width="700" height="532" class="align-left"></p><p><em>Photo courtesy of IU Health</em></p></div><p>Access to high-quality health care is crucial to a community’s well-being, but it’s not the only component of health. Neighbors need economic development, transportation, education and infrastructure that promote a healthy lifestyle.</p><p>The <a href="https://indyhealthdistrict.org/" target="_blank">Indy Health District</a> launched in fall 2024 to create healthier communities across 1,500 acres on the north side of Indianapolis. Led by neighborhood associations, business executives, city leaders and health professionals from IU Health, the nonprofit wants to address socioeconomic and health disparities from all sides—and reverse alarming data showing residents in the district have much lower life expectancies compared to residents in other parts of the Indianapolis metro area.</p><p>“Over the last several years, we have listened closely to the voices of community members within the district’s boundaries to guide the development of this organization and will remain committed to listening to their input and feedback,” said Jamal Smith, executive director of the Indy Health District. “Our ultimate goal is to create physical and institutional frameworks that elevate the health and well-being of everyone who lives, works and plays in the Indy Health District.”</p><p>To monitor progress in its long-term mission, the group created a Health Impact Dashboard to track health outcomes and changes in primary social determinants of health. One of their six guiding principles is to ensure community access to high-quality medical care and health care amenities. Other efforts include cleanup and restoration of landscapes, reconfigured streets and intersections, and new public art installations.</p><p><a href="https://indyhealthdistrict.org/about" target="_blank">Learn more</a> about the Indy Health District.</p></div></div><div class="col-md-3"><div><h4>Resources on the Role of Hospitals</h4><ul><li><a href="/advocacy/access-and-health-coverage">Access to Care</a></li><li><a href="/roleofhospitals">All Case Studies</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:15:34 -0600 Health Equity /center/next-generation-leaders-fellowship/fellowship-action Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0600 Health Equity /news/headline/2024-11-15-aha-podcast-culturally-sensitive-maternal-care-indigenous-women <p>In this conversation, Jennifer Richards, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Center for Indigenous Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Jennifer Crawford, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, discuss the perspectives needed to provide maternal care for Indigenous peoples and the importance of awareness of their cultural and spiritual practices. <a href="/advancing-health-podcast/2024-11-15-culturally-safe-maternal-care-indigenous-women"><strong>LISTEN NOW</strong></a></p><div></div> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:26:01 -0600 Health Equity /community-health-environment/stories <div class="raw-html-embed"> </div><div> /* Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar */ .Banner_Title_Overlay_Bar { position: relative; 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I hereby release and discharge AHA and its representatives, employees, agents and assigns from any and all claims, actions, demands, and liability arising out of or in connection with the use of said Images, including without limitation any and all claims for invasion of privacy, right of publicity, and defamation.</p> <p>By submitting this information, I represent that I have obtained a valid HIPAA Authorization covering all future disclosures AHA may make of this information if the disclosure includes any protected health information of the patient.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="edit-processed-text" class="js-form-item form-item js-form-type-processed-text form-item- js-form-item- form-no-label"> /* Removes extra space above banner */ .container.webform-content{ margin-top: 0em; } /* Field input inline */ @media (min-width:450px){ #edit-interests-checkboxes input, #edit-interests-checkboxes textarea, .webform-checkboxes-other input, .webform-submission-form input, .webform-submission-form textarea, #climate_and_community_health_sto-form input /* Change to thespecific form used - webform-submission-*-form */, .climate_and_community_health_sto-form input /* Change to thespecific form used - webform-submission-*-form */{ width:auto; } /* Center font size */ .webform-section-wrapper p, .webform-section-wrapper ul, .webform-section-wrapper ol{ font-size: 16px; color: #555 } /* Field Input inline */ .js-form-type-textfield label, .js-form-type-select label, .js-form-type-tel label, .js-form-type-email label{ margin-right:10px; min-width:145px; display: inline-block !important } } /* Field Labels */ .js-form-item label, .webform form label{ color: #555; font-size:16px; margin-bottom:5px; } /* Options in a list */ label.option{ color: #555; font-size:16px ; font-weight: 100; display: inline; } .webform-submission-form .js-form-type-checkbox, .webform-submission-form .js-form-type-radio{ margin-bottom:10px } /* Checkbox indent */ .form-checkboxes, .js-form-type-radio{ margin-left:15px } /* H3 sim */ .js-form-item legend{ color: #4579bc; font-weight: 700; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.3; } /* Reset for label */ .js-webform-radios-fieldset legend, .fieldgroup.js-form-item.form-item legend{ color:#555; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-bottom: none } /* Date list */ .js-form-type-datelist{ overflow: auto } .js-form-type-datelist .form-select{ float: left; margin-right:15px } /* Added missing asterisk */ legend span.form-required::after { content: ' *'; color: #D50032; } /* Fix mobile */ @media (max-width:450px){ .user-login-form input, .user-login-form textarea, .webform-submission-form input, .webform-submission-form textarea{ width:auto } } </div> <div data-drupal-selector="edit-captcha" class="captcha captcha-type-challenge--recaptcha"> <div class="captcha__element"> <div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6LdrgGsUAAAAALv69a9FuEinoebfHzaoYXy5Hq8b" data-theme="light" data-type="image"></div> </div> </div> <div data-drupal-selector="edit-actions" class="form-actions js-form-wrapper form-wrapper" id="edit-actions--3"> </div> <div class="homepage-textfield js-form-wrapper form-wrapper"><div class="js-form-item form-item js-form-type-textfield form-item-homepage js-form-item-homepage"> Leave this field blank </div> </div> </div> Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0600 Health Equity