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AHA comments to MedPAC regarding topics to be discussed at the commissioner’s September meeting.
A coalition of organizations, including the AHA, urge the Department of Health and Human Services to consider postponing for one year the Oct. 6 deadline for health care providers to begin sharing all electronic protected health information in a designated record set, as defined under HIPAA, to…
AHA thanks Reps. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., for introducing a House companion to the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act (S.3904/H.R.8806),
Recently, the hospital leadership team of Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden, Ark., made the “heart-wrenching decision” to close a rural health clinic that the hospital had operated for 25 years.
Resources for hospital and health system leaders to improve mental well-being and prevent suicide in the health care workforce
AHA urges the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to deny the Department of Health and Human Services’ request to modify a court order requiring it to completely eliminate the remaining 19,802 Medicare appeals backlogged at the Administration Law Judge level. HHS now contends that it…
In medical care, prior authorization was originally intended to ensure patients received appropriate care that was in line with tested methodologies. Today, “prior authorization” has become a dreaded term…often signaling delayed care and undue financial burdens posed to patients and care providers…
HHS OCIO HC3 TLP White Threat Briefing: APT41 and Recent Activity for September 22, 2022.
On September 22, 2022, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) published a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) (AA22-265A) as operational technology/industrial control system (OT/ICS) assets that operate, control, and monitor day-to-day…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to provide information on recent cyber operations against the Government of Albania in July and September.