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Eligible professionals, hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program for the first time in 2016 must attest to meaningful use for a continuous 90-day reporting period by Oct. 1 to avoid a payment adjustment in 2017.
As part of National Health IT Week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released two new resources to help health care providers implement and use health IT. The Health IT Playbook offers implementation strategies, recommendations and best practices…
Six Oregon health care organizations will invest $21.5 million in an innovative partnership to support affordable housing and health care access in Portland: Adventist Health Portland; CareOregon; Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Legacy Health; OHSU and Providence Health & Services –…
The Massachusetts Hospital Association has announced a new name: the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA). President and CEO Lynn Nicholas said the new name “better reflects the new health care environment in which we’re all operating.
Aerial spraying with the insecticide naled and larvaecide Bti most likely contributed to the current pause in local spread of Zika virus in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. No increases in short-term…
The AHA supports targeted efforts to stop offenders from inappropriately steering people eligible for Medicare or Medicaid into individual health plans, but such actions should not be used as a pretext to further restrict the ability of certain third parties to help individuals with their premiums…
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday awarded $44.5 million to training programs to increase the number of mental health providers and substance abuse counselors. The fiscal year 2016 grants will support clinical internships and field placements for an array of professional and…
The Government Accountability Office yesterday named two new members to six-year terms on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors: Russell Howerton, M.D., chief medical officer and vice president of clinical operations at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in…
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering encourages health care facility and energy managers to complete its energy and water survey by Oct. 14. The Environmental Protection Agency will use anonymous data from the survey to update its ENERGY STAR scoring models for hospitals and…
Hospitals that serve predominantly low-income, medically-underserved individuals may submit an application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Oct. 15 to add their facility to the Essential Community Provider list for the 2018 Health Insurance Marketplaces.