/ en Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:07:07 -0500 Tue, 25 Feb 25 06:15:00 -0600 /aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan/2025-02-25-3-takeaways-about-apples-new-mental-and-physical-health-study <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-8"><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/3-Takeaways-about%20Apples-New-Mental-and-Physical-Health-Study.png" data-entity-uuid="05e4905a-1173-4558-80c3-c17f9e1ba061" data-entity-type="file" alt="3 Takeaways about Apple’s New Mental and Physical Health Study. Three iPhones with the middle phone displaying the Apple Health Study homepage against a background with Apple logos." width="100%" height="100%"><p>The world of health care disruption and innovation often seems like a sprint, but it is a marathon.</p><p>Apple is a perfect illustration. The tech giant recently announced its new wide-ranging <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/new-holistic-apple-health-study-launches-today-in-the-research-app/" target="_blank" title="Apple Newsroom: New holistic Apple Health Study launches today in the Research app">Apple Health Study</a>. The longitudinal research aims to further understand how technology can play a role in improving physical and mental health and overall well-being.</p><p>The company stated that the study may take at least five years before its full impact is realized and will build on previous research from the <a href="https://hsph.harvard.edu/research/apple-womens-health-study/" target="_blank" title="Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Apple Women's Health Study">Apple Women’s Study</a>, <a href="https://sph.umich.edu/applehearingstudy/" target="_blank" title="University of Michigan School of Public Health: Michigan Public Health Apple Hearing Study">Apple Hearing Study</a> and the <a href="https://appleheartandmovementstudy.bwh.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" title="Brigham and Women's Hospital: Apple Heart & Movement Study">Apple Heart and Movement Study</a>. Even with that lag time, results from the study have the potential to be groundbreaking, the company notes.</p><p>Consumers can volunteer for the latest study through the Research app in the company’s iPhone and can opt out at any time. De-identified data from the study will explore relationships within various areas of health, such as mental health’s impact on heart rate or how sleep can influence exercise. The study is being conducted in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a research hospital and teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Boston.</p><h2>3 Things to Know about the Study</h2><h3><span>1</span> <span>|</span> This is Apple’s most expansive health study yet.</h3><p>Unlike prior Apple health studies that focused on specific areas, this research will gather data from iPhones, Apple Watches and AirPods to try to discover new relationships within different areas of health, both physical and mental.</p><h4>Takeaway</h4><p>Much like its previous health studies, Apple will use the findings from this research to learn and inform its product development and potential features to add in the future. The hearing test offered through Apple’s AirPods is an example of how previous studies impacted product development. Other advances that came out of Apple research studies include the Vitals app on the AppleWatch and the Walking Steadiness app on the iPhone.</p><p>Changes in health can affect one or more parts of the body, and others may affect well-being overall, so helping to identify these changes earlier can help offer a more proactive approach to health. For example, early detection of a change in hearing health could reduce the risk for cognitive decline.</p><h3><span>2</span> <span>|</span> Survey tools will add important data to the research.</h3><p>Study participants not only will contribute data but also will be prompted to answer questions periodically about their at-home life and habits. The study spans many health and disease areas, including activity, aging, cardiovascular health, circulatory health, cognition, hearing, menstrual health, mental health, metabolic health, mobility, neurologic health, respiratory health, sleep and more.</p><h4>Takeaway</h4><p>The longitudinal, virtual study data can be used to predict, detect, monitor and manage changes in participants’ health, Apple states. Additionally, researchers will explore connections across different areas of health.</p><h3><span>3</span> <span>|</span> Scale will be an important factor in this study.</h3><p>It’s impossible to predict how many consumers will participate in the new Apple Health Study, but the company previously has had great success in recruiting participants for its research. More than <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/11/stanford-apple-describe-heart-study-with-over-400000-participants.html" target="_blank" title="Stanford Medicine News Center: Stanford, Apple describe heart study with over 400,000 participants">400,000 people</a> participated in the first Apple Heart Study. Broadening the scope and scale of this study has the potential to reveal previously unknown connections between lifestyles and different areas of health.</p><h4>Takeaway</h4><p>Access to a huge and diverse cohort (Apple device users) could help accelerate discovery and progress. “We anticipate we will likely find some signals that have previously just been missed because we haven’t had studies that are this broad, or we haven’t had studies that are this continuous. We haven’t looked longitudinally or at this level of granularity,” Calum MacRae, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who will serve as principal investigator on the Apple Health Study, noted in a recent <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/610308/apple-health-study-wearables-iphone-apple-watch-airpods" target="_blank" title="The Verge: Apple launches wide-ranging health study to help develop future features">interview</a>.</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; } h2 { color: #9d2235; } h4 { color: #9d2235; } Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:15:00 -0600 Analytics & Research /groundbreaking-heart-procedure-performed-toddler-osf-childrens-hospital-illinois <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><div class="col-md-6"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-01/telling-the-hospital-stoy-image-osf-childrens-hospital-of-illinois-ferns-plumkett-turbendian.jpg" data-entity-uuid data-entity-type="file" alt="OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois" width="700" height="532"></p></div><p>In December, OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois announced surgeons had successfully performed the world’s first implantation of an extravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (EV-ICD) in a 2-year-old child who had suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. This innovative device, developed by Medtronic, had previously only been used in adults or much older teenagers.</p><p>Sunita Ferns, M.D., director of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Electrophysiology, diagnosed the patient with Brugada syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes heart arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Ferns assembled the team of specialists to try the EV-ICD on the young patient. “We needed buy-in to trial a new device for the first time ever in a patient his size from the surgeons and good technical support.”</p><p>Harma Turbendian, M.D., the primary surgeon, led the minimally invasive procedure. “They’re fairly small incisions that are required for implantation of the device,” Turbendian said. “You actually don’t have to access the heart in order to place this thing.” This approach eliminates the need for open-heart surgery, making it a safer and less invasive option for young patients.</p><p>Ferns said their work will soon be published to guide other medical centers worldwide. Mark Plunkett, M.D., the chief of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, described the EV-ICD as a “game changer” that will revolutionize pediatric cardiac care. “Its design initially was for adults or adult-sized patients. The fact we've proven it to be effective and safely implantable in a child this size really expands its application immensely." </p><p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://newsroom.osfhealthcare.org/parents-fast-actions-lead-to-world-first-heart-procedure/" target="_blank" title="OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois">Learn more about this world-first heart procedure. </a></p></div><div class="col-md-3"><div><h4>Resources on the Role of Hospitals</h4><ul><li><a href="/topics/innovation">Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement</a></li><li><a href="/roleofhospitals">All Case Studies</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div> Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:10:55 -0600 Analytics & Research /news/headline/2024-12-04-cms-announces-two-drug-manufacturers-participate-cgt-access-model <p>The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec. 4 <a href="https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-takes-next-steps-increase-access-sickle-cell-disease-treatments">announced</a> that drug manufacturers bluebird bio, inc. (manufacturer of Lyfgenia) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals (manufacturer of Casgevy) will participate in its Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model. The voluntary model will test whether a CMS-led approach to developing and administering outcomes-based agreements for cell and gene therapies improves Medicaid beneficiaries’ health outcomes, broadens access to innovative treatment and reduces health care expenditures. The CGT Access Model launches in January, and states can choose to begin participation anytime between then and January 2026. The state application portal will also go live this month and remain open through Feb. 28, 2025. In addition, states may apply for optional model funding by Feb. 28, 2025 through the <a href="https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/354875">notice of funding opportunity</a>. </p> Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:01:32 -0600 Analytics & Research /data-insights/aha-trendwatch-chartbooks-2000-2018 <div class="container"><div class="field_lead"><h2>Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems</h2><p>TrendWatch Chartbook analyzes the latest in hospital and health system trends.</p><p>Chartbook is an <strong>AHA member benefit</strong> and available for <a href="https://ams.aha.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?WebCode=ProdSearch&q=trendwatch">purchase to non-members</a>.</p></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-12"> @media (min-width:771px){ .MultiColum{ column-count: 2; } } <ul class="MultiColum"><li><strong>2023:</strong> <a href="/system/files/media/file/2024/11/2023-TrendWatch-Chartbook-Full.pdf" title="Access the Trendwatch Chartbook for Members">Member 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class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-8"><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/4-Things-to-Know-about-Microsofts-New-AI-Tools-for-Health-Care.jpg" data-entity-uuid="af3455bc-8623-4a76-8833-70c0170ee6dc" data-entity-type="file" alt="4 Things to Know about Microsoft’s New AI Tools for Health Care. An AI robot with a Microsoft logo on its back points to one brain MRI image on a wall of brain MRI images." width="100%" height="100%"><p>Microsoft’s recent unveiling of myriad new <a href="https://news.microsoft.com/2024/10/10/microsoft-expands-ai-capabilities-to-shape-a-healthier-future/" title="Microsoft: Microsoft expands AI capabilities to shape a healthier future" target="_blasnk">artificial intelligence (AI) and data capabilities</a> for health care organizations has many tech experts excited about the tools’ potential impact on the field.</p><p><strong>Among the new capabilities:</strong></p><ul><li><span><strong>New medical imaging models.</strong></span> A collection of medical imaging models available in the Microsoft Azure AI model catalog will allow health care organizations to test, fine-tune, and build AI solutions tailored to their specific needs. This would minimize the extensive computing and data requirements typically associated with building multimodal models from scratch, the company states. Developed in collaboration with partners like Providence and Paige.ai, these models enable health care organizations to integrate and analyze diverse data types — ranging from medical imaging to genomics and clinical records.</li><li><span><strong>AI agent services.</strong></span> This would allow companies to create AI tools with pre-built templates and data sources that could be used for appointment scheduling, clinical trial matching and patient triage. Currently in public preview, the service will offer broader access to the tools and lets organizations give feedback on the products.</li><li><span><strong>Expanded data analysis tools.</strong></span> The company’s health care-specific data tools are now typically available in Microsoft’s Fabric platform, which allows organizations to ingest, store and analyze health data. In public preview, organizations also will be able to use other types of data such as conversational information from Microsoft’s DAX Copilot AI documentation tool, public social determinants of health information and claims data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.</li><li><span><strong>Nursing documentation.</strong></span> Working with the electronic health record vendor Epic and health care organizations like Advocate Health, Northwestern Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Duke Health, Microsoft is developing an AI documentation tool for nurses. The nurse-focused product has been deployed at multiple customer sites, Mary Varghese Presti, vice president of portfolio evolution and incubation at Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences Division, recently told Healthcare Dive. The tool uses ambient voice technology to automatically draft flowsheets, or forms that collect patient data, for nurse review. The goal is to enable nurses to be “eyes-free and hands-free” in their documentation.</li></ul></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, 22 Oct 2024 06:15:00 -0500 Analytics & Research /role-hospital-uc-davis-health-developed-technology-translates-brain-signals-speech-97-accuracy <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><div class="col-md-5"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/ths-ucdavis-brain-computer-speech-stock-700x532.jpg" data-entity-uuid="c3b7a63a-4d83-47ff-9038-84bf9fd32cb8" data-entity-type="file" alt="Telling the Hospital Story. UC Davis Health-Developed Technology Translates Brain Signals into Speech with 97% Accuracy. A clinician works with a patient using technology that converts brain signals to speech using laptop computers." width="700" height="532"></p></div><p>Losing the ability to communicate can be both frustrating and demoralizing, according to Casey Harrell, a 45-year-old man with severely impaired speech due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. “It’s like you are trapped.”</p><p>But new research out of UC Davis Health in Sacramento, Calif., has the potential to reshape life for people like Harrell who’ve lost that critical connection point.</p><p>UC Davis Health researchers recently helped Harrell communicate through a new brain-computer interface, a game-changing advancement for people who can’t speak due to paralysis or ALS. Researchers implanted sensors in Harrell’s brain in a region responsible for coordinating speech. Within minutes of activating the system, he was able to communicate his intended speech with a staggering 97% accuracy.</p><p>“Something like this technology will help people back into life and society,” said Harrell. To learn more about how this technology works, and why previous efforts hit roadblocks, read this <a href="https://health.ucdavis.edu/welcome/news/headlines/new-brain-computer-interface-allows-man-with-als-to-speak-again/2024/08" target="_blank">UC Davis article</a>.</p></div><div class="col-md-3"><div><h4>Resources on the Role of Hospitals</h4><ul><li><a href="/topics/innovation">Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement</a></li><li><a href="/roleofhospitals">All Case Studies</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div> Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:29:13 -0500 Analytics & Research /role-hospitals-uc-davis-health-doctors-use-collarbone-create-new-upper-arm-young-patient <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><div class="col-md-5"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/ths-ucdavis-collarbone-upper-arm-stock-700x532.jpg" data-entity-uuid="5d01e2d3-abd7-4fce-964e-dcd28f5b7cd9" data-entity-type="file" alt="UC Davis Health Doctors Use Collarbone to Create New Upper Arm for Young Patient. A doctor in gloves holds the hands of a young patient to test the strength in the patient's arms and hands." width="700" height="532"></p></div><p>When nine-year-old Sydney Engle was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in her right arm, she and her parents had several options to choose from to prevent the cancer from spreading. Surgical options were challenging because of the extent of Sydney’s disease; due to her young age, she needed an option that would grow with her body.</p><p>Faced with the possibility of amputation or taking a bone from her leg to use in her arm, the Engles and their care team at UC Davis Health in Sacramento, Calif. opted for a rare procedure that involved using Sydney’s collarbone to create a new upper arm. The surgery, called clavicula pro humero, involved transposing the clavicle with its blood supply off the central vessels so it can function as the upper arm.</p><p>“I believe our team was the first to do this in the United States years ago,” said UC Davis Health pediatric musculoskeletal surgical oncologist and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery R. Lor Randall, M.D., one of the relatively few physicians who has previously performed the surgery. “I first learned about the procedure in 2005 when I was touring in Africa, where they do not have as many options as we do here. We are now one of the most experienced teams in the world in utilizing this technique.”</p><p>To learn more about the successful surgery and how Sydney is doing today, read this <a href="https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/exceptionally-rare-procedure-called-clavicula-pro-humero-avoids-amputation-/2024/05" target="_blank">UC Davis Health article</a>.</p></div><div class="col-md-3"><div><h4>Resources on the Role of Hospitals</h4><ul><li><a href="/topics/innovation">Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement</a></li><li><a href="/roleofhospitals">All Case Studies</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div> Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:44:51 -0500 Analytics & Research /news/headline/2024-06-28-cms-releases-request-state-applications-cell-and-gene-therapy-access-model-targeting-sickle-cell <p>The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 28 announced the request for <a href="https://www.cms.gov/files/document/cgt-model-rfa.pdf">state applications</a> for the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model. The CGT Access Model will test whether a CMS-led approach to developing and administering outcomes-based agreements for cell and gene therapies improves Medicaid beneficiaries’ health outcomes, broadens access to innovative treatment and reduces health care expenditures. The model, announced in <a href="/news/headline/2024-01-31-cms-model-targets-medicaid-access-gene-therapies-sickle-cell-disease">January</a>, will initially focus on gene therapies for sickle cell disease. CMS already released a request for applications for manufacturers in March and anticipates releasing a notice of funding opportunity for states later this summer.</p> Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:03:02 -0500 Analytics & Research /role-hospitals-harborview-medical-center-clinicians-became-adept-iding-mpox-uw-medicine-study-shows <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><div class="col-md-5"><p><img src="/sites/default/files/2024-05/ths-uw-mpox-700x532.jpg" data-entity-uuid data-entity-type="file" alt="UW Medicine, Harborview Medical Center. stock image of hands covered in sores" width="700" height="532"></p></div><p>Though mpox cases are not life-threatening, recovery from the infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus, it is still no picnic. Mpox can cause a painful rash, a fever and other flu-like symptoms. And once someone tests for it through a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) lab test, they must wait five or more days for results that confirm the infection. Those extra days come with uncertainty to the person experiencing uncomfortable symptoms and putting their life on hold; a little bit of clarity can make a big difference.</p><p>Recent research findings, authored in part by UW Medicine, showed that during western Washington’s 2022 mpox outbreak, emergency response teams were highly accurate at identifying suspected mpox and providing same-day care. Clinicians at the King County Sexual Health Clinic at Harborview Medical correctly predicted and administered tecovirimat to 71% of 121 people who were later confirmed to have mpox. They also predicted with 99% accuracy which patients would be found mpox-negative via PCR test.</p><p>“In cases where you might send off a swab to get tested and you don’t get the answer back for six days, that’s six days that someone is at home on pins and needles, worried and wondering: Can I see friends? Can I go to work? What if staying home means not getting a paycheck?” said study co-author Chase Cannon, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at UW Medicine and medical director for the Public Health Seattle & King County STD Clinic.</p><p>Though Cannon noted that the World Health Organization’s stance is that only a PCR test can definitively confirm mpox, there is also value in a same-day provisional diagnosis.</p><p>“It’s hugely helpful to tell someone upfront, ‘This really looks like mpox. We’ll send the swab for confirmation, but I’m fairly certain that’s what this is,’” he said. “We can start counseling patients and setting their expectations for what will happen, isolation recommendations, how to keep themselves and others safe.”</p><p>The paper was published Feb. 29 in the journal ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Harborview Medical Center is owned by King County and managed by UW Medicine. <a href="https://newsroom.uw.edu/blog/clinicians-identifying-mpox"><strong>LEARN MORE</strong> </a></p></div><div class="col-md-3"><div><h4>Resources on the Role of Hospitals</h4><ul><li><a href="/topics/innovation">Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement</a></li><li><a href="/roleofhospitals">All Case Studies</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div> Thu, 02 May 2024 16:54:36 -0500 Analytics & Research /infographics/2021-01-15-fast-facts-us-health-systems-infographic <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-8"><p>AHA has defined two types of health care systems, and both involve an ownership, lease, sponsorship or contract-management relationship with a central organization. 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