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The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and U.S. Secret Service this week issued an updated advisory on the Russian-speaking Conti ransomware gang to include a list of over 100 domain names and naming characteristics used to distribute the ransomware and conduct attacks.
Effective April 4, the Department of Health and Human Services will no longer require COVID-19 testing facilities to report negative results for tests authorized for use under a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment certificate of waiver, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
The International Hospital Federation, of which the AHA is a member, issued a statement expressing concern about the escalation of violence affecting hospitals and health care personnel in Ukraine as Russia continues its attack on the country.
The Senate passed and sent to the president for his signature a $1.5 trillion omnibus appropriations bill funding the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year.
Health Facilities Management, the magazine for AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering, recently launched a series of articles exploring how climate change and climate events impact health care facilities and their planning, preparedness and response efforts.
AHA will host a conversation between three of Cleveland’s premier health system leaders during the upcoming Accelerating Health Equity Conference. Akram Boutros, M.D., president and CEO of The MetroHealth System, Cliff A. Megerian, M.D., CEO of University Hospitals, and Tomislav Mihaljevic, M.D.,…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released evidence-based recommendations to prevent and control central line-associated blood stream infections in neonatal intensive care unit patients.
An estimated 28% of children aged 5-11 received a first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine between Nov. 1 and Jan. 18, while 19% received a second dose, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a Medicare payment code effective Feb. 24 for administering the combination monoclonal antibody therapy Evusheld to prevent COVID-19 in certain patients.
The AHA voiced support for the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act (H.R. 7053 /S. 3792), bipartisan legislation that would extend the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ acute hospital care at home waiver program two years beyond the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency