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The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum will host a complimentary webinar June 8 on “The Art and Science of Storytelling to Engage and Inspire Health Care Teams.” For more information or to register, click here.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will not update the overall hospital quality star ratings on Hospital Compare in July as scheduled due to data issues with three of the measures included in the safety group score, according to a QualityNet notice yesterday. CMS is working to correct…
The Food and Drug Administration recently authorized the temporary import of a sodium bicarbonate injection product from Australia to address a critical shortage of the drug, commonly used in hospitals to treat a chemical imbalance in the blood. Athenex Pharmaceutical Division will import and…
An electronic health records software vendor and certain of its employees will pay a total of $155 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that the organization misrepresented the capabilities of its software, the Department of Justice announced yesterday. The settlement also…
First-year enrollment at U.S. medical schools has increased by 28% since 2002, with 22 new schools accounting for nearly 40% of the growth, according to the latest annual survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges. First-year enrollment reached 21,030 in 2016-2017. According to…
Nearly 200 House members today urged Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to require qualified health plans to accept premium and cost-sharing assistance provided to patients by nonprofit charitable organizations, places of worship and local civic organizations.
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced more than $70 million in new funding opportunities to prevent and treat opioid use disorders and deaths.
Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions are working, but they don’t always save money, according to a review of 50 quality improvement studies published yesterday by JAMA Internal Medicine.
The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative will host a June 13 webinar on trends in health care violence and innovative tactics to manage patients with aggressive behavior. Representatives from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston will share their experiences. For more information…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced plans to offer quick access to the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers when available through secure look-up tools for health care providers and beneficiaries. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 requires CMS to…