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Minimizing Medical Tubing Misconnections - The ENFit® Patient Safety Initiative
A panel of provider thought leaders as discusses the ISO 80369-3 (ENFit) small bore connector conversion successes, lessons learned and implementation processes.
A New Spend Management Approach for Shoulder Replacement Surgeries
Learn how Rush University Medical Center took an innovative approach to cost reduction and achieved a 21% reduction in the hospital’s shoulder replacement spend, delivering $800,000 in savings in less than one year.
Streamlining Clinical Workflows With AI
Demonstrating AI's potential to improve operational efficiency and patient care, a top hospital became a pioneer in applying generative AI at scale.
Market Insights: Behavioral Health Integration
Behavioral health disorders have significant impact on individual and community health, utilization of services and costs. Hospitals and health systems are shifting their focus to treating the whole patient and creating a continuum of care that reflects integration at each point in a patient’s journey to better health. This means integrating behavioral health services into every aspect of patient care, as well as coordinating and connecting with community resources. Hospitals and health systems that take a behavioral health integration approach to care delivery have seen improved outcomes and reduced costs.
Interactive Map: U.S. Hospitals Routinely Integrating Behavioral Health Services In Care Areas
Explore behavioral health services integration in the United States at the state level. Drill down further to see detailed behavioral health services integration by hospital type, bed size and much more!
Outdated Regs Impede Care Transformation
Last week, we released a report as part of the AHA’s on-going campaign seeking regulatory relief for hospitals and health systems. It highlights how outdated fraud and abuse regulations created under the Stark and Anti-Kickback laws are barriers to transforming patient care.
Scanning the Headlines: Clinical Integration
Antitrust and other legal/regulatory issues re: clinical integration where hospitals and physicians work together, such as gainsharing, provision of physicians with IT, etc. Also any general discussion of clinical integration as it relates especially to caring for the patient with chronic disease across the continuum of care.
The Next Generation of Community Health
Hospitals and health systems are on a journey that promises to take them to a place where they can improve the lives of thousands of people all at once, not just the health of one patient at a time … where their success in addressing the social determinants of health within the communities they serve will be as important as the high-quality medical care they provide within their four walls. It’s a journey described in the AHA Committee on Research’s new report, “The Next Generation of Community Health.”
Anthem terminates agreement to acquire Cigna
Anthem is terminating its merger agreement with Cigna after a Delaware court denied the health insurer’s request for a temporary restraining order to stop Cigna from terminating the agreement.
Consumers need Competition
We continue to believe that the proposed deals by four large insurers is bad for consumers because it will likely result in higher premiums. Last week the AHA sent a letter to the Department of Justice that raised concerns about the proposed Anthem acquisition of Cigna focusing on the impact of Anthem’s affiliation with the Blue Cross Blue Shield System.