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Healthcare innovation happens in the lab. Adoption happens on the night shift.
Healthcare innovation is often measured by what’s new, but its real test is how successfully and thoughtfully those technologies get into the hands of the clinicians and patients who need them. That gap, between what’s built and what’s actually used, was the focus on this year’s West Health @HC65 Action Alliance Summit.Across sessions on digital health, implementation science, workforce transforma...
Breaking Free from Pilot Purgatory: A Path Forward for Healthcare Innovation
As Chief Medical Officer of West Health, an organization that is dedicated to lowering the cost of healthcare and advancing sustainable, high-quality delivery models in healthcare, I have witnessed a troubling pattern repeat itself countless times. A promising clinical initiative launches with enthusiasm and early success, only to languish later. The results look good. The team is energized. Leade...
AI Won’t Fix Healthcare. But It Can Help Us Build Better Systems for What’s Next
America is entering a demographic transformation that will fundamentally reshape healthcare delivery. By 2034, older adults will outnumber children for the first time in our nation’s history. At the same time, millions of Americans already struggle to access timely, high-quality care. This convergence—rising demand alongside constrained capacity—requires a more deliberate and forward-looking appro...
How Ambient Intelligence is Giving Doctors Time Back With Their Patients
Dr. Sarah Coleman's story represents thousands of healthcare providers facing similar documentation challenges. She had just finished seeing Mrs. Peterson, an 87-year-old patient with diabetes, heart disease, and early dementia—a complex case requiring careful coordination between multiple specialists. In the past, documenting such a visit would have taken Dr. Coleman 20 minutes after the appointm...
Ohio’s Long-Term Care Quality Navigator
Long-term care is one of the most personal and consequential choices that people make—not just for themselves, but often for older parents, spouses and loved ones. The decision about where to receive care, and what type of care is most appropriate, can be emotionally overwhelming. Families want one thing above all else: accurate, clear and trustworthy information.For Ohioans, a new tool called the...
Hardwiring Best Practices for Safe Mobility and Delirium Prevention in Older Adult Patients
IntroductionThis case study, featuring the University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital, underscores how deliberate system redesign can embed evidence-based mobility and delirium prevention strategies into routine care. This approach improves outcomes for older adults — reducing complications, length of stay, and post-acute care needs — and offers a scalable model to transform front-line workflows ac...
Aging Well with AI: Empowering Care through Innovation Research
Executive SummaryThe U.S. healthcare system faces a growing crisis: an aging population with increasing care demands amid severe workforce shortages. While adults age 65 and older currently make up less than a fifth of the population, they drive 36% of spending on healthcare—the highest of any age group. Furthermore, older adults are expected to outnumber children under the age of 18 for the first...
The Future of the Healthcare Workforce: Exploring How AI Will Augment Deliver of Care
Executive SummaryThe United States healthcare system is under immense pressure to meet the increasing demand for healthcare services with a shrinking, yet costly, workforce. Approximately ten thousand people turn 65 each day, and by 2030,1 all Baby Boomers—one of the largest U.S. generations, second to Millennials—will be at least 65. As the population ages, the number of people living with chroni...
Accelerating Mental Health Integration in Primary Care: From Implementation to Sustainable Impact
Blog series: This article launches a new series examining mental health care in America and the opportunities to reach more people with effective, timely care. The series will draw on real-world implementation with our partners: Northwestern Medicine, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to explore where the system falls short and how ...