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A new resource roundup from the West Health Accelerator at the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust highlights five practical approaches across electronic health record optimization, virtual care and artificial intelligence utilization and integration.
The California Hospital Association announced Sept. 18 that Bryan Bucklew, president and CEO of Hospital Council – Northern & Central California (a regional affiliate of CHA), will be the organization’s next president and CEO.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking public input on how data intermediaries, such as health information exchanges and other data-sharing entities, can support secure, scalable, standards-based public health data exchange.
New guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency encourages healthcare organizations to consider internal network and internet facing cyber decoys [cisa.gov] as a practical way to strengthen cyber defenses and improve early threat detection.
A Capitol Hill briefing Sept. 17 in Washington, D.C., hosted by 11 national healthcare organizations, including the AHA, highlighted the growing epidemic of workplace violence and its effects on staff well-being and patient safety.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency have released guidelines to protect authentication tools including access tokens and identity assertions from cyber criminals.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering has released Health Care Maintenance and Operations: The Facilities Management Handbook, a new resource to help facilities leaders modernize maintenance practices, improve operational reliability and support safe, uninterrupted patient care.
In episode one of Frontiers, a special three-part podcast series from the AHA that examines maternal health in rural America, learn how rural hospital leaders are turning commitment into action and finding new possibilities for sustaining maternal care close to home.
Join the AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies Initiative in observing NICU Awareness Month in September and NICU Awareness Day on Sept. 30.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health Sept. 15 announced the confirmation of two additional measles-associated deaths, bringing the state’s total to four.