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New Initiatives To Prevent Bloodstream Infections
An influx of critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on health care systems, with many infection-prevention resources diverted to outbreak management.
AHA Comments to Modernization Subcommittee of the Healthy Future Task Force Re: Telehealth
Responding to a request for information on digital health, the AHA March 4th urged Congress to permanently eliminate all restrictions on telehealth originating and geographic sites; continue to allow rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers to serve as distant sites for all telehealth services beyond mental health; make certain additional practitioners are eligible to deliver telehealth services; allow hospital outpatient departments and critical access hospitals to bill for telehealth services; and allow hospitals to bill the originating site fee when hospital-based clinicians provide telehealth services to hospital outpatients at home.
FDA: Don’t use certain COVID-19 antigen tests
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday alerted health care providers and the public to three COVID-19 antigen tests that are not authorized or approved for distribution or use in the United States.
Perspective: Helping the People and Health Care Providers in Ukraine
For the past week, we have seen heartbreaking images from Ukraine, including newborn babies being moved from the neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital to a makeshift bomb shelter in the basement, depicting the devastation of war.
CDC: Masks are now optional for 90% of the country
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday said more than 90% of the U.S. population now lives in a county with a low or medium COVID-19 Community Level, a new CDC measure for communities considering whether to require face coverings in public indoor settings.
Coalition ad: Congress must act now to stop looming Medicare cuts
The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care yesterday launched a national television ad urging action to prevent Medicare cuts to hospitals and health systems.
AHA Comments to CMS Re: Agency Information Collection re: Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part II
: Letter with comments to CMS on the burden estimates associated with the delivery of good faith estimates to uninsured and self-pay patients and the patient-provider dispute resolution process established under the No Surprises Act.
Project Firstline to host March 16 event for health care workers
Project Firstline will host a virtual event March 16 at 1 p.m. ET to celebrate health care workers and unveil new resources to help them prevent and control infections.
Cybersecurity Report: FBI & AHA discuss Russia, Ukraine and Cybersecurity in U.S. Health Care Sector
John Riggi, who spent nearly 30 years as a highly decorated veteran of the FBI and now serves as National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk at the American Hospital Association and their 5000+ mem