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Thirty-three state hospital associations late yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to review this term an appeals court decision that held the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate unconstitutional.
As part of a recently released workforce TrendWatch, AHA highlights Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System’s initiative to accelerate economic growth, employment and investment as well as expand inclusionary economic opportunities in the community. Read more in this case study.
In this AHA Advancing Health podcast, John Supplitt, senior director of AHA Rural Health Services, talks to Rachelle Schultz, CEO of Winona Health, about clinicians using artificial intelligence to identify and diagnose illnesses and injuries and recommend customized treatment plans, making primary…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC, or the Commission) will vote this month on payment recommendations for 2021. The American Hospital Association (AHA) asks that commissioners consider the following issues that would have a significant impact on hospitals, health systems, other…
Multidisciplinary teams at the University of Tennessee Medical Center used lean methodology to create evidence-based care plans throughout any episode of care, including the ED, outpatient, inpatient, post-acute and home care.
In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin the new year with a brief explanation of the
increased nation state threat stemming from the killing of Iranian Gen. Soleimani. We then
briefly review Mastercard’s most recent cybersecurity acquisition and what it might mean for
them and their…
In this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Ginny Trainor, program director for the AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies initiative, and Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer and AONL CEO, outline AHA’s strategy to address maternal morbidity and…
America’s hospitals and health systems are at the center of their communities, both as providers of critical services and as large – and often the largest – employers. Labor is the largest single cost for most hospitals, and the workforce is essential to the critical mission of providing life-…
As part of Human Trafficking Awareness month, Ashley Garrett, director of the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center, and Hanni Stoklosa, M.D., executive director and co-founder of HEAL Trafficking, join Laura Castellanos, AHA…
The American Hospital Association conducts an annual survey of hospitals in the United States. The data here, published in 2019, are a sample from the 2017 AHA Annual Survey (FY 2017).