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The November issue of Health Affairs highlights a number of articles and studies focused on opportunities to improve patient safety, including how hospital work environments can affect outcomes and how patient experiences can help reduce diagnostic errors.

The AHA received two gold MarCom Awards – the highest award given – for the association’s two most recent National Hospital Week videos.

The AHA opposes tariffs that have been imposed on medical equipment and medical products imported from China that are used in hospitals, as well as potential tariffs under consideration that would impact the health care field.    

The Food and Drug Administration’s policies and procedures were insufficient for handling postmarket medical device cybersecurity events, and the agency has not adequately tested its ability to respond to emergencies resulting from cybersecurity events in medical devices.

The Food and Drug Administration Nov. 2 approved a new opioid drug called Dsuvia, which will be used to manage acute pain in adults.

Racial disparities in heart attack mortality rates may be explained by differences in sociodemographic characteristics, and not race alone, according to a new study.

Hospitals and health systems continue to be challenged by the ever-increasing number of quality measures that must be reported.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced that it plans to grant quality reporting data submission and validation exceptions to post-acute care providers affected by Hurrican

A federal court today denied the Department of Health and Human Services’ motion for a stay in a lawsuit challenging the excessive delay in the effective date for the 340B price transparency rule.

Sister Carol Keehan this week announced that she will retire as president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States.

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.25 percent in October to a seasonally adjusted 5,216,100 people.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued its calendar year 2019 outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center final rule, which updates hospital OPPS rates by 1.35 percent in CY 2019 compared to CY 2018.

When more people have health coverage, everyone wins—the patients who need care, the insurers that provide coverage, and the hospitals and health systems that provide care. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued its final rule to update the Physician Fee Schedule for calendar year 2019.  

A federal court today ruled in favor of the AHA and its member hospital plaintiffs, and reinstated a mandamus order establishing annual deadline-based targets for reducing the backlog of Medicare appeals at the Administrative Law Judge level.

The AHA’s American Organization of Nurse Executives yesterday thanked a New England nurse leadership group for “advocating unrelentingly for patients, nurses and our health system” to defeat Question 1 on the Massachusetts ballot initiative.

The Institute for Medicaid Innovation today released a new report that provides an overview of maternal behavioral health; risk factors, outcomes, and implications of maternal behavioral health disorders; barriers to obtaining behavioral health services; and opportunities for community organizations and Medicaid managed care to address maternal behavioral health.

The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation this week released a roadmap for reinventing U.S. health care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the home health prospective payment system final rule for calendar year 2019, which finalizes a major redesign for CY 2020.

The risk of a hospital patient having a health care-associated infection was 16 percent lower in 2015 than in 2011, largely due to declines in surgical site and urinary tract infections.