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AHA Environmental Scan: These 5 Technologies Could Transform Society
Many emerging technologies are showing promise in the quest to find innovative solutions to improve care and reduce costs, but health care executives remain cautious about adoption due to lack of capital and fear of creating unintended operational burdens. This is just one of the many insights you’ll learn when you download the AHA’s 2019 Environmental Scan.
Fulfilling Digital Health's Promise
Digital health startup companies attracted a record $8 billion-plus in investments in 2018, reports Rock Health, a U.S. venture fund dedicated to the sector. That represents a 42 percent increase over 2017. Globally, digital health funding totaled $14.6 billion — 14 times what it was in 2010, according to StartUp Health, a company that invests in what it calls “health transformers.”
Michelle Niermann named CEO of UnityPoint Health – Cedar Rapids
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Decatur County Hospital names CEO, and UNC Lenoir Health Care taps new CEO to begin in March.
AHA Releases New Report that Shows Continued Rising Drug Prices and Drug Shortages are Disrupting Patient Care, Hospital Budgets
Continued rising drug prices, as well as shortages for many critical medications, are disrupting patient care and forcing hospitals to delay infrastructure and staffing investments and identify alternative therapies.
Jan. 16 webinar examines emerging trends in disruptive innovation
The AHA's Center for Health Innovation Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. ET will host a webinar for hospital and health system leaders to make sense of the various types of disruption occurring within the health care ecosystem and the forces driving this disruption.
GAO reports on approaches, challenges to EHR patient record matching
The Government Accountability Office today released a congressionally-mandated report examining approaches and challenges to matching patients to their electronic health records, and efforts to improve patient record matching.
How hospital and health system leaders are reducing health inequities to improve quality and outcomes
At last month’s AHA Executive Forum, Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D., senior vice president of community health and equity and chief wellness and diversity officer at Henry Ford Health System; José R. Sánchez, president and CEO of Norwegian American Hospital; John H. Vassall, M.D., physician executive for quality and safety at Qualis Health; and Sanjay Malaviya, president and CEO of RL Solutions; discussed how health equity data, inclusive leadership and more can improve patient outcomes.
Nurse practitioners are caring for more patients when physicians can’t
Also in this roundup of nursing news: two nurses save the life of a man struck by an SUV; and executive moves in the field.
How hospitals and health systems are helping diabetic populations
Effingham, Ill.-based St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital addresses diabetic patients’ social risk factors; Adventist Health White Memorial Diabetes Program in Los Angeles takes families directly to the supermarket; and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore’s Diabetes Medical Home Extender Program treats high-risk patients in their homes.
AHA Stat Blog: Key takeaways from oral argument in Medicare DSH case before the U.S. Supreme Court
AHA outside counsel Sean Marotta shares insight from yesterday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court in a case about when the Department of Health and Human Services must give public notice and accept and respond to comments on its proposed policies.