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Hospitals continue to improve patient care, according to results from the second round of the AHA/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative.
Hospitals continue to improve patient care, according to results from the second round of the AHA/Health Research & Educational Trust Hospital Engagement Network, part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative.
The National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care initiative today held a public symposium to inform a paper it will release this fall to provide guidance to the incoming administration on health and health care priorities. The symposium featured a series of…
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…