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The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, and California Hospital Association filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Huntington Hospital and Cedars-Sinai Health System in their case challenging conditions the California Attorney General seeks to impose on their proposed affiliation.
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center has uncovered a wide-scale malicious email campaign by a group it associates with the 2020 compromise of the SolarWinds Orion platform, the center announced in a blog post.
The AHA, joined by member hospitals and health systems and other national organizations representing hospitals, filed reply briefs in their petitions asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse appeals court decisions in two important cases for patients and providers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended clinicians report all cases of inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) or lining (pericarditis) after COVID-19 vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, citing an increase since April in cases reported after…
Hospitals will no longer need to report influenza data and inventory and usage data for bamlanivimab administered alone as part of their daily data reporting related to COVID-19 effective June 10, when reporting data for those fields will become optional, the Department of Health and Human Services…
Cyber actors continue to exploit vulnerabilities in the operating system for the Fortinet network security system, the FBI warned today, noting that a group “almost certainly” exploited a Fortigate appliance this month to access a webserver hosting the domain for a U.S. municipal government. The…
The Health Resources and Services Administration this week announced details on its notice of funding opportunity for its Rural Health Clinic Vaccine Confidence Program.
The AHA June 3 at 1 p.m. ET will host a webinar featuring Michael Fallahkhair, senior advisor for Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, who will discuss federal funding opportunities to assist rural hospitals and rural health clinics with efforts…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday proposed delaying Medicaid “best price” and “best price reporting” requirements for state value-based purchasing agreements with drug manufacturers until July 2022.
In this podcast marking Mental Health Awareness Month, Shane McGuire, CEO of Columbia County Health System in Dayton, Wash., discusses the hospital district’s collaborative work with the University of Washington’s psychiatry program and its Advancing Integrated Mental Health Center, which focuses…