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In this series of three AHA Advancing Health podcasts, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA’s Physician Alliance, hears stories from Laura Crooks, CEO of Children’s Village in Yakima, Wash.; Beth Lown, chief medical officer at The Schwartz Center…
At Issue: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely monitoring and collaborating with the World Health Organization (WHO) on an outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The new coronavirus (COVID-19), to date, has resulted in…
In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, you will find an analysis of the coronavirus that tries to cut through the media sensationalism to explore a more nuanced perspective of its impacts along with an examination of why the anonymization of data is often more marketing myth than security fact.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., and Ranking Member Kevin Brady, R-Texas, this morning released legislative text of the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020, the committee’s proposal to address surprise medical bills.
One in every five American adults are living with a behavioral health disorder. Roughly half of these people don’t receive treatment. How should the health care field respond? What can be done to improve access and affordability? Learn more from AHA's Center for Health Innovation.
Ransomware, destructive malware, insider threats, and even honest user mistakes present ongoing threats to organizations. Organizations’ data, such as database records, system files, configurations, user files, applications, and customer data, are all potential targets of data corruption,…
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for better health care offers unprecedented opportunities to improve patient and clinical team outcomes, reduce costs, and impact population health.
Court sets oral argument date of April 17, in the government's appeal of its loss on site-neutral payment reduction (Feb. 10, 2020). 
Discover evidence-based toolkits from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) to achieve significant results in maternal health outcomes.