Leveraging Technology
Blockchain is a term that describes a system in which data are maintained and shared across a peer-to-peer network, rather than by a single authority. It’s most known as the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but it’s beginning to be used to improve significant inefficiencies in…
The AHA has formed a strategic alliance with AVIA, the leading partner for digital health insights, strategic guidance and consulting services. The alliance will combine the thought leadership and convening power of the AHA and AVIA’s expertise and resources in digital health to help hospital and…
The AHA Physician Alliance regularly convenes senior physician executives as part of its Physician Leadership Circle for high-level conversations around issues facing physician leaders.
The direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing market is booming after getting off to a slow start more than a decade ago. Millions of consumers are buying test kits and related services outside of health care providers to learn more about their ancestry, genealogy or kinship, risks of developing…
A new report from the AHA Center for Health Innovation and EY examines how digital health technologies are shifting the care location to anywhere, anytime and the care model to preventive, personalized and participatory.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Announces 2019 Innovation
Challenge Winners
Last week’s Aspen Ideas: Health festival reflected many of the changing dynamics in health and health care. Notably, a number of sessions across the four days examined how consumerism and technology are shaping the patient experience of care.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, writes that, while high-tech innovations are significant, we must not forget about affordable alternatives that are within easy reach. She shares examples of these types of solutions developed by hospitals and…
It’s clear that health care is headed outside the walls of the hospital with the goal of keeping people healthy. The hospital will always be a critical access point of health in the community. But what a hospital looks like is changing. Hospitals and health systems across the country are investing…
During a period of unprecedented change, hospitals and health systems are working to lead the transformation of care delivery by providing more coordinated, convenient and responsive care to patients and communities. That is the message hospital and health system leaders shared today during an AHA…