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MultiCare Health System - Tobacco Cessation Program

What is it?The Tobacco-Free Campus Implementation Team in 2000 (renamed the Clean Air Committee in 2007), representing various departments throughout the system, developed and implemented
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

How Rx Drug Pricing Is Ripe for Disruption

A recent report in MobiHealth News explores how well-funded, established startups and fledgling companies alike are finding ways to cut the costs of prescription medications. Their services are targeted to the more than 27 million consumers who are uninsured or underinsured — including the 43 percent of Americans younger than 65 who were on high-deductible plans in 2017 — according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
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Artificial Intelligence streamlines radiology reporting

Also in this weekly roundup of health care news: Study says preschoolers are at ‘golden age’ for forming lifelong healthy habits, and the extraordinary effect a nurse has on a patient’s health.

Mental illness and acute care

For a long time, behavioral health patients have been marginalized in the nation’s health care system.
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April is National Donate Life Month

April is National Donate Life Month, when the AHA encourages everyone to consider becoming organ, eye and tissue donors.
Rural Health Update
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Rural Health Update - August 2020

This newsletter updates readers on federal advocacy and policy actions in general as well as those that are COVID-19 related.
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AHA voices support for bipartisan bill to address opioid epidemic

AHA today voiced support for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524), bipartisan legislation being considered this week by the Senate to address the nation’s opioid epidemic.
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CDC challenge seeks better ways to prevent healthcare-associated blood clots

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week announced a
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

What Will It Take to Win the Consumerism Challenge?

If hospitals and health systems are to compete effectively in the battle for consumer loyalty with outside mega disruptors in outpatient care, they must bridge a widening gap between their organizational priorities and capabilities. This extends to all sorts of consumerism initiatives — from improving the customer experience to offering more convenient access to care to providing price transparency and using digital tools to engage consumers.
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Blog: The health care supply chain before and in the midst of COVID-19

Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care supply chain remains strained due to the high demand for personal protective equipment. In this blog Q&A, Mike Schiller, senior director of supply chains for the Association for Health Care Resource and Materials Management, discusses the past, present and future state of the health care supply chain during the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency.