The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives will award a $5,000 scholarship in honor of AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock, CHIME CEO and President Russ Branzell said this week. The scholarship, announced at the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference in Phoenix, will pay for an existing scholarship-candidate from a small or rural health care provider to attend CHIME’s Healthcare CIO Boot Camp March 14-17 in Chicago. Umbdenstock recently announced he will retire from the AHA at the end of 2015.

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Beginning Jan. 2, 2018, hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program will submit their…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday began accepting applications for 2017 hardship exceptions to the Quality Payment Program’s…
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The Senate today approved by unanimous consent legislation (S. 581) that would require the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and disseminate…
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The Government Accountability Office today appointed 15 members to a committee created by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 to advise the national coordinator…
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The AHA will honor this year’s Most Wired hospitals during a Twitter chat July 28 during the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego. The chat will…
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives will conduct the annual “HealthCare’s Most Wired” hospital survey and…