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New CMS office to focus on burden reduction, health informatics

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has created an Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics to build on its Patients over Paperwork initiative across Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Health Insurance Marketplace and use health data to foster innovation and better care.
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Task force issues roadmap to advance health care quality priorities

A National Quality Forum task force released a report identifying opportunities to advance safe, appropriate, person-centered care over the next decade.
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HHS webinar Friday on using thermal detection cameras

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response June 26 at 1 p.m. ET will host the next webinar in its series ”Securing the Health Sector,” which will focus on “COVID-19 and the Use of Thermal Detection Cameras in the Healthcare Environment.”
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Project to evaluate repurposing drugs to treat COVID-19

The Food and Drug Administration has partnered with the Critical Path Institute and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to launch the CURE Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, a forum for exchanging clinical practice data to inform potential new uses for existing drugs to treat unmet medical needs, beginning with COVID-19.
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Congress urged to update post-acute payment plan in COVID-19 relief package

The AHA urged Congress to revise the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 in the next COVID-19 relief package to reflect new insights from the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect of recent post-acute care payment system reforms.

Notice of Appeal on Court Decision on Public Disclosure of Negotiated Rates June 23, 2020

Notice is hereby given that Plaintiffs are appealing to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from the Court’s final order in this case, entered June 23, 2020 (ECF No. 36).
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Jesse Burgard

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AHA Letter on Resetting the IMPACT Act in Next COVID-19 Relief Package

On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our clinician partners – including 3,000 post-acute care providers, the American Hospital Association (AHA) writes in support of resetting the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 in the next COVID-19 relief package.
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Design Spaces For Hospitals

As humans, we respond to our environment. The physical space around us can — and does — affect mood, energy, creatively and productivity.
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AHA statement on District Court decision on mandated disclosure of negotiated rates

AHA statement on District Court decision on mandated disclosure of negotiated rates from General Counsel Melinda Hatton.