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Vindell Washington, M.D., will join the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology as principal deputy national coordinator on Jan. 25, National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, M.D., announced today. Vindell most…
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, today received the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service for its broad-based efforts to partner with underserved local communities to improve health. The Baxter International Foundation, AHA and Health Research & Educational…
Kevin Most, D.O., vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer for Northwestern Medicine at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, IL, will chair the AHA’s Committee for Clinical Leadership for 2016. The committee is charged with providing clinical input to the AHA advocacy…
Olympus has recalled its TJF-Q180V duodenoscope so it can make Food and Drug Administration-approved modifications to the roughly 4,400 devices in use in U.S. health care facilities, the FDA announced today.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday finalized its recommendations to provide no updates in fiscal year 2017 for Medicare payments to home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities or long-term care hospitals. In addition, the commission…
The AHA today recommended changes to certain provisions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2017 draft letter to issuers of qualified health plans in federally facilitated marketplaces.
The Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation will sponsor a Feb. 18-19 retreat for health care leaders on how to establish an effective communication and resolution program for adverse events.
A new white paper from the Center for Healthcare Governance discusses essential governance practices and challenges in building and supporting good governance in multi-organizational systems with multiple, layered boards. It also examines factors boards should consider as they transform their…
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Jan. 12 released the first in a planned series of reports that will identify “social risk factors” affecting the health outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries and methods to account for these factors in Medicare payment programs like the Hospital…
The AHA last week criticized as “misdirected” and a blow to patient care the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission’s (MedPAC) recommendation that Congress reduce Part B drug payment rates to hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
At its Jan. 14 meeting, the commission voted 14…