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Workshop on health system interventions to prevent firearm injuries, deaths
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice will host a workshop Oct. 17-18 in Washington, D.C., on health system interventions to prevent firearm injury and death.
SAMHSA awards tribal grants to combat opioid overdoses
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration this week awarded American Indian and Alaska Native tribes $50 million in grants to combat opioid overdoses.
HHS awards grants to pilot test regional disaster health response system
The Department of Health and Human Services today awarded Hospital Preparedness Program grants to Nebraska Medicine in Omaha and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to conduct pilot projects to demonstrate the potential effectiveness and viability of a Regional Disaster Health Response System.
CDC: Hospitals continue to lead field in health care worker flu vaccinations
An estimated 92 percent of hospital workers report receiving a flu vaccine for the 2017-18 flu season, compared with 75 percent of ambulatory care workers and 67 percent of long-term care workers.
Conference Oct. 25-26 on strategies to improve health care cybersecurity
The InfraGard Cyber Health Working Group, a partnership between the FBI and information technology professionals in the health sector, will host a conference Oct. 25-26 in Charlotte, N.C.
Mental Illness Awareness Week focuses on curing stigma
The week also includes National Depression Screening Day, dedicated to raising awareness and screening people for depression and related mood and anxiety disorders.
Twitter chat Wednesday on building healthy communities
U.S. News and World Report will host a Twitter chat on building healthy communities at 1:30 p.m. ET Oct. 10.
AHA Stat Blog: Three questions with an ED physician on using new ICD-10 codes to help stop human trafficking
Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, M.D., director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Human Trafficking Initiative, shares how clinicians are key to stopping the cycle of human trafficking, and how new ICD-10 codes that went into effect Oct. 1 can help.
How hospitals are reaching into their communities to address the social determinants of health
St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital is taking a social approach to supporting diabetes patients; Northwestern Medicine is stocking fridges for the food insecure; and Yale New Haven Hospital partners with providers to help shelter the homeless.
How You're Transforming: Advocate Aurora Health
In their first joint initiative since forming a collaboration to drive innovation, Advocate Aurora Health and Chicago-based health technology incubator Matter launched the Health Care Tech Venture Challenge.