Innovation
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.
The AHA will present its 2021 Justin Ford Kimball Innovators Award to Spectrum Health, now part of BHSH System, April 25 at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting.
America鈥檚 hospitals and health systems and partners are driving innovation, advancing remote-patient monitoring, spurring artificial intelligence (AI) startups to early success and advancing new care models.
AHA Board Chair Wright L. Lassiter III is joined by Marcus Whitney, founder and partner of Jumpstart Health Investors, to discuss innovation and equity in health care.
Over the past couple of months, interesting news and insights have surfaced from Walmart and Amazon executives about their strategies and execution goals.