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AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack began AHA’s 2024 Annual Meeting remarking on the essential work of hospitals and health systems, as well as the many challenges they are facing, including workforce shortages, underpayment, supply chain issues and cyberattacks.
Main Line Health’s strategic collection and utilization of data, as well as its initiatives to improve the health of communities of color, earned the health system the AHA’s 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Transforming Category.
Chris DeRienzo, M.D., AHA chief physician executive and senior vice president, participated Sept. 17 in a Newsweek event on physician burnout and how artificial intelligence impacts the issue. DeRienzo was the introductory speaker for the session, where he discussed his work meeting with hospital…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee Sept. 18 advanced legislation on expiring telehealth and hospital-at-home flexibilities. The AHA supported the passage of the Telehealth Modernization Act, which extended telehealth flexibilities for two years that are set to expire Dec. 31 and included a…
The Farmer Angel Network support group is devoted to suicide prevention in Wisconsin's farming communities. In this conversation, co-founder Brenda Statz, Carey Craker, marketing and volunteer services associate at Reedsburg Area Medical Center, and Christy Updike, transformation program manager at…
“As pharmaceutical companies throw stone after stone at the 340B program, they should beware of their own glass house. Their complaints ring hollow when it is clear that their own actions are driving growth in the program,” says an op-ed in Medical Economics authored by Bharath Krishnamurthy, AHA…
The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare Sept. 18 sponsored an event with Politico in Washington, D.C. to discuss innovations in telehealth, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies impacting patient care and access.
The AHA’s 2024 Governance Survey is now available for AHA-member and non-member CEOs to complete.
The Department of Health and Human Services Sept. 17 announced it has awarded a total of $2 million to two recipients to create tools to improve care delivery, advance research capabilities and address emerging challenges related to interoperable health information technology.
The AHA Sept. 17 urged the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General to further scrutinize policies and practices by certain Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) that impede patient access to post-acute care and circumvent rules designed to ensure access and coverage…