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The White House yesterday released a federal plan to improve domestic and international capacity and collaboration to combat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
U.S. births rose 1% in 2014 to nearly 4 million, the first increase since 2007, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birth rates rose 3% for Asian/Pacific Islander women and 1% for white women, and declined 9% for teens, 3% for American Indian…
The AHA Physician Leadership Forum and American Medical Association will host a Jan. 12 webinar on their guiding principles for successfully integrating clinical skills and business insights at the leadership level to foster more collaborative and cohesive decision-making at hospitals and…
The AHA encourages all hospitals to complete the eighth annual Information Technology Supplement to the AHA Annual Survey. The survey was mailed to hospital CEOs this month for their chief information officer to complete on paper or online by Dec. 28.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released its final 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory, intended to provide an updated list of the “best available” standards and implementation specifications to meet…
The U.S. death rate from drug overdoses increased 6.5% in 2014 to a record 47,055, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. That includes an 80% increase in deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and 26% increase from heroin.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Homeland Security today removed enhanced visa and port-of-entry screening for travelers from Sierra Leone, which the World Health Organization declared free of Ebola transmission on Nov. 7. Travelers departing Sierra Leone will remain…
The AHA seeks applications through Jan. 22 for the 2016 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership. Named after AHA President Emeritus Dick Davidson, the annual award honors a state, regional or metropolitan hospital association that demonstrates exceptional…
The Internal Revenue Service publicly confirmed Friday that hospitals are permitted to report expenditures for clean and safe housing as community benefit expenditures on page 1 of Schedule H, which includes calculations for those activities that the IRS views unquestionably as community benefit.…
Senate Finance Committee leaders seek comment through Jan. 26 on policy options the committee is considering to improve how Medicare treats beneficiaries with multiple, complex chronic illnesses.