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AHA leaders share lessons from Value Initiative

Partnering between administrative and clinical leaders will be critical when designing and implementing value-based strategies, according to eight hospital
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Chair File: Z Codes Role in Advancing Health

Hospitals and health systems are working to address their patients’ social needs and the broader social determinants of health in the communities they serve. This includes societal and environmental conditions such as food, housing, transportation, education, violence, social support, health behaviors and employment. 
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Voices on Value: A Conversation with William Shrank, M.D.

Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, talks with William Shrank, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer, Humana, to get his insights on health care affordability, value and the strategies that Humana is using to disrupt health care delivery.
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Chairman’s File: Supporting caregivers on crucial conversations

AHA resources can help care teams — and their patients — move beyond the awkwardness to engage in honest communication that can transform lives.
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Chairman’s File: Reimagining health care delivery

There is no doubt that enhanced convenience and customer service is where health care is headed.
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AHA Advertorial: Doing Our Part to Control Costs and Improve Value for Patients

The affordability of health care services is one of the biggest concerns facing families, as well as employers and government. However, it is a challenge that hospitals and health systems are tackling head on. Hospitals are making care more affordable in four key ways.
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Voices on Value: Paul Keckley

Only national security ranked higher among overall concerns, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted during the 2016 presidential campaign.1 Results of the December 2015 poll showed 62 percent
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Voices on Value: Kenneth Kaufman

The fast-paced disruption of the Internet economy is encroaching on America’s hospitals. In the classic path of business disruption, innovators take a complex, high-priced service and offer it with more convenience and at a lower price.
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Voices on Value: Robert S. Kaplan and Harry Wolberg, Part 1

Robert Kaplan and Harry Wolberg from the Harvard Business School discuss six fundamental practices for value-based health care, which they say aims to improve the outcomes experienced by patients at lower total costs to society.