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The AHA commented on the Food and Drug Administration’s draft guidance for industry and FDA staff on clinical decision support software as part of the agency’s efforts to implement Section 3060(a) of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Melinda Hatton
General Counsel
American Hospital Association
AHA urges CMS to reconsider its recent guidance to providers requiring them to document Medicare-Medicaid “crossover” bad debt in a manner that is neither standard practice for most hospitals nor consistent with current accounting standards.
Rosemary Sheehan, chief human resource officer at Boston-based Partners Health Care, shares tips and best practices from the health system’s experience incorporating artificial intelligence.
Because of the Affordable Care Act, 20 million people have health insurance, millions with pre-existing conditions have access to the care they need and new and innovative models of care have been launched.
By proposing a new safe harbor for patient engagement tools and creating three new safe harbors for value-based arrangements, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has taken “the first steps toward much needed reform” of the federal anti-kickback statute and civil…
In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin with a warning about the use of emotiondetecting
technologies and a call for their regulation. Next, we detail how the U.S. National
Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) is helping further biometric research. Finally, we
briefly explain…
In this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Tom Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System in California, discusses how efforts to expand patient access to high-quality, affordable care are driving new hospital and health system relationships.