Insights and Analysis

From left to right are Faith Mitchell, Star Cunningham and Brian Gragnolati. This week, as part of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival’s Interactive Health and MedTech track, the American Hospital Association and leaders from the field have been sharing how hospitals and health systems are…
In part two of our series discussing Value-Based Health Care, Robert Kaplan and Harry Wolberg from the Harvard Business School do a deep dive on Integrated Practice Units, a key component for value-based health care. IPUs are multi-disciplinary care teams deployed to deliver care at the condition…
In this AHA Stat Blog, Institute for Diversity and Health Equity President and CEO Duane Reynolds shares some takeaways from the recent ACHE conference and highlights a number of efforts AHA is involved in to help the field increase diversity and achieve health equity. 
This week, as part of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival’s Interactive Health and MedTech track, the American Hospital Association and hospital leaders have been sharing how hospitals and health systems are transforming to advance health in their communities. 
Pictured, from left to right: Manik Bhat, CEO of Healthify, Inc.; Carmen Llanes Pulido, executive director at Go Austin/Vamos Austin; Dwayne Proctor, senior adviser to the president and director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Ron Paulus, M.D., former president and CEO of Mission Health…
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: AMITA Health names president and CEO of AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center Elk Grove Village (Ill.); and Allina Health, Minneapolis, appoints president of two hospitals.
Also in this roundup of nursing news: a nurse perseveres through extreme snow to tend to a home-bound patient, and executive moves in the field.
Seven national hospital associations, including the AHA, recently urged stakeholders to unite behind a six-point agenda to achieve fully interoperable health data for patients and providers.
Birmingham VA Medical Center’s weekly, 90-minute shared medical appointments help veterans address opioid reliance.
The ability to provide rural residents with high-quality health care is contingent upon an adequate supply of providers. However, the shortage and maldistribution of physicians and other health care providers persists in rural America, despite ongoing federal and state efforts to increase the…