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The AHA engaged the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder to develop a toolkit to help hospitals and health systems understand their patients’ ERISA rights better.
AHA urges drug companies urged to provide discounts to 340B community pharmacies.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to place unprecedented demands on America’s health care system. The recent sharp increase in the number of patients needing acute hospital care means that some hospitals could face more significant shortages of staff and medical supplies such as personal protective…
On January 8, 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) distributed an alert (AA21-008A) as a companion alert to (AA20-352A). The predated alert focuses on an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor’s compromise of SolarWinds Orion products as an initial access vector into…
The SolarWinds hack involved more than just Orion, and will affect more than just Orion users and customers.
AHA letter to HHS outlining leadership actions needed to expedite the administration of covid-19 vaccines. 
In this podcast, Priya Bathija, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the AHA, moderates a discussion between Tom Nordwick, CEO of Uvalde Memorial Hospital, and Phil Sklar, Co-founder and CEO of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, on continued PPE needs of hospitals and how non-…
Welcome to 2021! This week, Hacking Healthcare begins by breaking down the United States (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) newly published final guidance on securing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). Next, we evaluate what the European Commission’s…
AHA urges the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to extend the deadline to comply with its final rule implementing information blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act to 2022 or six months after the end of the…