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The AHA will make a donation to the Indiana Hospital Association in support of hospital personnel impacted by the recent flooding in Indiana caused by severe weather that began Aug. 11. President Trump issued a disaster declaration Aug. 15, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency…
A new AHA blog details how hospitals are modernizing care for older Americans. It highlights the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, created by The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the AHA, along with other resources by the AHA and its partners. “Across…
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking public feedback on a discussion paper released today on potential regulatory approaches for generative artificial intelligence-enabled medical devices. The paper includes considerations for risk assessment, premarket evaluation, post-market monitoring and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced the launch of QualTech, a new event created to identify innovative technology that improves health outcomes. CMS is seeking participants from U.S-based teams, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, private sector…
For the 2025-2026 school year, exemptions from one or more vaccines among U.S. kindergartners was at 4.2%, increasing from 3.6% for the previous school year, according to data released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Exemptions rose in 41 states and Washington, D.C.…
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday announced that it will award $96.7 million in grants through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for various behavioral health services.
The AHA Aug. 17 provided comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on its proposed rule to codify in regulation the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program.
The AHA’s Community Health Improvement network will host a webinar Aug. 26 at noon ET that will feature discussion from leaders at CredibleMind on what a practical roadmap for a coordinated response to behavioral health needs looks like.
In this conversation, Baligh Yehia, M.D., president of Jefferson Health, shares how the organization is rethinking healthcare access through same-day cancer care, virtual primary care, home-based services and expanded access to clinical trials.
The Department of Health and Human Services Aug. 14 released a request for comments through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on a proposed three-year generic clearance to collect routine customer feedback on service delivery and performance related to the Trusted Exchange…