AHA Center for Health Innovation

Help hospital and health care leaders collaboratively work with public health and local partners to benefit patients and communities.
Leaders need to think strategically about the pandemic’s impact on health care in the near and long term and plan for a future defined by resilience and innovation while maintaining an unwavering commitment to high-quality care. Futurescan 2021-2016: Health Care Trends and Implications offers key…
Hospitals and health systems have demonstrated innovative leadership in acute care response throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenge going forward will be to continue the energy and enthusiasm of distributed, team-based, rapid problem-solving and use it to address other problems that…
The spread of COVID-19 revealed systemic cracks in the social needs and public health infrastructure of communities — inequities that have existed for decades.
The John A. Hartford Foundation Age-Friendly Health Systems Cohort Scholarships for the AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship are now available.
At Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, we were involved very early in this pandemic. We are still caring for the majority of patients with the coronavirus in our community, and we learn more every day. Looking back on many months of dealing with COVID-19, here are some…
Please join AHA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a conversation on providing safe care to COVID-19 positive patients in various settings on Friday, November 20, 2020 at 2 p.m. ET. Dr. Michael Bell, deputy director of the division of health care quality promotion at the…
A series of webinar recordings and issue briefs on overcoming implementation challenges with bundled payments or episodic care programs.
The AHA Innovation Challenge is a unique opportunity for teams from AHA member hospitals and health systems to share their innovative ideas on how improve behavioral health access and outcomes.