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Flu-associated medical visits and hospitalizations per 100,000 population in 2022-23 were higher among children under age 5 than for older children, but were higher for older children than for any season since 2016-17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Oct. 12.
Two senior leaders from UVA Health in Charlottesville, Va., describe how the health system’s "Earn While You Learn" program helps build, sustain and retain its nursing workforce.
The Food and Drug Administration will accept nominations through Dec. 11 for experts to serve on a committee that will advise the agency on issues related to digital health technologies.
The Medical University of South Carolina’s National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center Oct. 11 received an $8.9 million grant from the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime to continue to develop evidence-based best practices, training and other resources to help communities…
U.S. tax-exempt hospitals provided over $129 billion in community benefits in 2020, 15.5% of their total expenses and nearly $20 billion more than in 2019, the AHA reports.
AHA’s new TrendWatch Chartbook presents the latest data on topics impacting the hospital and health system field, from health care spending, coverage and use to organizational and workforce trends.
The Department of Health and Human Services Oct. 6 urged health care organizations to patch a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Emergency Responder communications platform that allows a cyberattacker to completely compromise a vulnerable system and use it for further attacks across an enterprise…
The National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Oct. 5 recommended organizations take steps to prevent cyber actors from exploiting 10 common network misconfigurations.
The Maryland Hospital Association Oct. 6 named as its president and CEO effective Dec. 18 Melony Griffith, who currently serves in the Maryland Senate where she chairs the Finance Committee. She is the first Black woman to lead the 54-year-old association.
In this conversation, Franck Nelson, RWJUH assistant vice president of health equity, discusses the big steps the organization has taken to dismantle equity barriers in its care delivery system and the community it serves.