AHA and West Health Team Up to Increase Use of Innovative Technologies

The AHA and the West Health Institute have announced a new three-year initiative to help “hospitals and health systems operationalize and scale proven technologies across care environments to improve patient outcomes and support care teams.”

The West Health Accelerator at AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), which is “supported by a $12 million commitment from West Health, is designed to turn innovation into everyday practice by helping hospitals adopt and scale technology-enabled solutions that improve patient care, safety and operational performance. The national Accelerator concentrates on three priority areas where technology can deliver measurable improvement at scale: electronic health record optimization, virtual care, and artificial intelligence utilization and integration.”

Hospitals and health systems that participate in the program will have access to a “to turn innovation into everyday practice by helping hospitals adopt and scale technology-enabled solutions that improve patient care, safety and operational performance. The national Accelerator concentrates on three priority areas where technology can deliver measurable improvement at scale: electronic health record optimization, virtual care, and artificial intelligence utilization and integration.”

A curated network of hospitals and health systems will also “serve as national models, highlighting and sharing their own tech-enabled transformation and lessons learned.”