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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today issued a final rule that provides a regulatory framework for the agency to directly review certified health IT products that may present a serious risk to public health or safety, or practical challenges for ONC-…
The Florida Department of Health yesterday announced five cases of local Zika virus transmission in a new area of about one square mile in Miami-Dade County.
The AHA has joined with the American Health Information Management Association Foundation, American Medical Informatics Association, and National Center for Healthcare Leadership to form the Healthcare Workforce Consortium, which will receive $7.1 million from the Department of Labor’s…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released more details about its outreach strategy for enrollment in the 2017 Health Insurance Marketplaces. Plans include reaching more consumers by mail and email, including the recently uninsured and those who sought coverage in the…
Breast cancer death rates fell an average 1.9% annually for white women and 1.5% annually for black women between 2010 and 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterday. While death rates declined at the same pace for white and black women under age 50, they fell…
As part of International Infection Prevention Week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will host an Oct. 18 webinar on “Preventing the Next Avoidable Catastrophe in Low and Middle Resource Countries.”…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today warned health care providers and patients about the potential risk of infection from certain devices used during open heart surgery. Stöckert 3T heater-cooler devices, made by LivaNova PLC (formerly Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH), may have been…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced a pilot program to reduce medical record reviews for physicians and hospitals participating in certain advanced alternative payment models.
The Department of Health and Human Services should comprehensively plan and set timelines for its efforts to develop more meaningful quality measures, and prioritize its development of electronic quality measures and related data elements for the core measures it and private payers have agreed to…
Medicaid enrollment and spending growth slowed to 3.9% and 5.9%, respectively, in fiscal year 2016 due to slower enrollment related to the Affordable Care Act, according to the latest annual survey of state Medicaid directors by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. States…