Search Results

The default setting for search results displays All Content. If you prefer to see recent content only, please adjust the date filter.

50 Results Found

Data-Driven Initiative Drives Down Disparities in Rural Health Care

Identifying the underlying factors that contribute to disparities in outcomes in vulnerable rural populations and developing strategies to address these issues remain constant challenges, but progress is being made. OSF Healthcare’s Health Equities Action Lab (HEAL) is employing a data-driven strategy to address breast cancer disparity outcomes among its Illinois patients, 65% of whom live in rural areas.
Public

Top 4 Takeaways from New AHA Safety Insights Report

The newly released Insights Report, “Improvement in Safety Culture Linked to Better Patient and Staff Outcomes,” highlights progress on additional outcome measures of patient safety including some that reflect the ongoing work led by nurses to protect patients.
Public

4 Steps to Improve Medical Device Recall Tracking

As of late February, there were 147 medical device recall events and 20 of them, or 13.6%, were Class I, according to a Modern Healthcare report.
Public

Early Disease Detection: 3 Tech Trends to Watch

One trend CB Insights analysts are watching is how AI is helping patients engage with health systems before the diagnostic process begins and to flag diseases earlier.
Public

‘Living Intelligence’ — Why It’s Time to Look Beyond AI in Health Care

Living intelligence systems can sense, learn, adapt and evolve through the use of AI, advanced sensors and biotechnology, and C-suite leaders should become familiar with it.
Public

3 Top Takeaways from Health Care 2025 Forecasts

Each year we review a slew of health care outlooks and, after sifting through them, here are a few of the more interesting hypotheses.
Public

Are AI Chatbots Ready to Aid in Clinical Decision-Making?

In a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine in December, physician-scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston compared a chatbot’s large language model (LLM) reasoning abilities directly against human performance using standards developed to assess physicians.
Public

Top Priority — 3 Health Care Emergency Preparedness Tips

In a recent AHA Leadership Scan panel discussion, “When Disaster Strikes: How to Maintain Continuity of Care,” leaders from Lee Health, Fort Myers, Florida, California-based Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and North American Partners in Anesthesia shared insights on building and maintaining a culture of preparedness.
Public

4 Leaders in Improving Quality Care

AHA Quest for Quality Prize winner WellSpan Health is determined to improve health equity across its eight-hospital system headquartered in York, Pennsylvania.

Insights from AHA’s Quality Collective

To share strategies and insights from health care leaders exploring quality and performance, the AHA recently released its Quality Collective (QC) report.