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Guthrie Clinic Adds Virtual Care Hub to Address Nursing Shortage, Boost Patient Access and Safety

Leaders from Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania, detail how the shift to a virtual, team-based approach to care extends the reach of bedside nurses, attracts new nurses, creates a culture of collaboration and improves patient monitoring and satisfaction.

4 Steps to Diversify Your Workforce

Hospitals and health systems across the nation are engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Workforce diversity is a vital component of these efforts.

3 Firms Level the Playing Field in Health Equity Investing

A new AHA Center for Health Innovation report, “Leveling the Playing Field in Health Equity Investing,” explores the challenges these entrepreneurs face, how some venture capital (VC) funds are expanding opportunities for underrepresented startups and how the field can benefit.

New Research Report Identifies Ways to Drive More Equitable Care

HSR, the flagship publication of AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust and an official journal of AcademyHealth, has released “Achieving Healthcare Equity in the United States,” which summarizes the state of evidence and results from an inclusive, participatory process to identify opportunities to drive more equitable care.

Evening the Playing Field in Health Equity Investing

These venture capital funds are working to level the playing field for underrepresented entrepreneurs trying to disrupt health care delivery.

Anthem-Epic Data-Sharing Plan Could Boost Care Coordination

Anthem and Epic are collaborating to expand bidirectional data exchange. The partnership will integrate Epic’s payer platform into Anthem’s operating system while Anthem will add Epic’s information to its sources.

4 Ways New High-Tech Valley Health Facility Will Redefine Patient Experience

Valley Health will tackle a huge challenge in April that it has been anticipating for some time. In a single day, all patients from its Ridgewood, New Jersey, hospital will be moved to the new high-tech Valley Hospital in Paramus.

Success Stories in Driving Quality and Safety Improvement

Join us on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, from noon until 1 p.m. CT, for AHA’s Leadership Scan on “Bringing a ‘Systemness’ Focus to Quality, Safety and Patient Experience: How to drive repeatable improvement through uniformity and greater transparency.”

3 Advances That Could Change Patient Care

Here’s a look at some breakthrough advances cited by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that are designed to help providers tackle some of the most complex diseases.

How OR 'Black Boxes' Are Helping to Improve Safety

The OR Black Box made by Surgical Safety Technologies Inc. in Toronto, which Teodor Grantcharov, M.D., Ph.D., founded, is used in select ORs at Stanford Medicine and in a couple dozen hospitals in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe. The system comprises sensors and software and interacts with video, audio, patient vital signs and data captured from medical devices.