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Coronavirus Themed E-mail Phishing
Recently, malicious cyber threat actors have been leveraging the current news cycle to launch Coronavirus themed cyberattacks at their targets.
AHA’s IFDHE receives grant to build capacity and address drivers of health inequities
In this AHA Stat Blog, Jay Bhatt, D.O., AHA senior vice president and chief medical officer, discusses a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant awarded to AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
The echo chamber propagates the same old same old for hospital mergers: we can do better.
Hospital mergers are worth discussing, but too often the criticism is far from rigorous and is more like an echo chamber where critics cite those with whom they agree and ignore inconvenient facts that show how the hospital field continues provide quality care in their communities.
Assessing the Changing Face of Strategic Partnerships
The latest national “Futurescan” survey of health care executives found that 18% of respondents already have entered into at least three vertical partnerships with organizations in areas such as insurers and pharmaceutical companies, and another 63% are somewhat or very likely to do so within the next five years.
CVS Health Upends the Diabetes Drug Market
With rising prices for insulin and the costs of many other diabetes-related drugs taking their toll on patients, CVS Health recently announced that its pharmacy benefits management unit CVS Caremark is launching a program to enable employers and payers to offer these medications at no out-of-pocket costs to members.
CDC: Life expectancy up, mortality down in 2018
U.S. life expectancy rose by 0.1 year in 2018 to 78.7, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Among specific improvements, the drug overdose death rate fell by 4.6% overall, to 20.7 per 100,000; and the infant mortality rate fell by 2.3%, to 566.2 per 100,000 live births.
Chair File: Rural hospitals more indispensable than ever
Rural hospitals are community strongholds, serving as the key point of care for nearly 20% of Americans.
AHA ads on affordability, rural issues run in early primary states
The AHA is engaging in early primary states, including Iowa, with ads about rural health care and affordability to ensure issues important to hospitals and health systems stay in front of candidates.
Blog: Infection control must be everybody’s job
America’s hospitals and health systems “will always remain vigilant to the next threat and will continue to take the lead in safeguarding the public against potential threats,” writes AHA Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., in response to a Wall Street Journal article on hospital readiness for the Wuhan virus.