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The Federal Communications Commission today approved rules to permit unlicensed devices to operate on the same channel as the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service used by hospitals for patient monitoring devices. While the commission provided a mechanism for increasing the size of the adopted…
Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana have “the very real potential” to substantially reduce competition and the insurers’ willingness to partner with health care providers and consumers in transforming care, AHA told the…
Eight national hospital organizations, including the AHA, today urged the Department of Health and Human Services to immediately release a final rule easing “meaningful use” requirements for fiscal years 2015-2017 under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive…
A new AHA task force will work to confirm the characteristics of vulnerable rural and urban communities and identify strategies and federal policies to help ensure access to care in these areas. Chaired by Robert Henkel, president and CEO of St. Louis-based Ascension Health, the 30-member Task…
Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana have “the very real potential” to substantially reduce competition and the insurers’ willingness to partner with health care providers and consumers in transforming care, the AHA told the…
The AHA last week called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to extend the partial enforcement delay of the two-midnight policy to conform with other proposed changes to the policy.
The 2015 Health Forum and AHA Leadership Summit, held July 23-25 in San Francisco, brought together health care leaders to discuss ways to transform the delivery system for better quality and value; improve alignment between providers, physicians and payers; and achieve greater clinical integration…
Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) today asked the Federal Communications Commission to delay by three months technical rules that would allow unlicensed TV White Space devices to operate on the same bandwidth hospitals use for patient monitoring.
Inpatient mortality rates among adults declined by 45% for pneumonia, 41% for heart attack, 29% for congestive heart failure and 27% for stroke between 2002 and 2012, according to a new report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The report looks at the declines by patient…
Half of the nation’s primary care physicians view increased use of quality metrics and financial penalties for unnecessary hospitalizations as potentially troubling for patient care, according to a survey released today by the Commonwealth Fund and Kaiser Family Foundation.