The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, today launched a centralized data system for sharing cancer genomic and clinical data between researchers as part of the ad
The average premium change between 2015 and 2016 for the lowest-cost silver plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace varied widely by state, from a 12.1% decrease in Indiana to a 41.8% increase in
John Combes, M.D., AHA’s chief medical officer and senior vice president and president of its Center for Healthcare Governance, will retire in October after almost 12 years leading the associ
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a free webinar June 9 at 3:30 p.m. ET on infection control and prevention in the outpatient oncology setting.
The AHA today urged the Food and Drug Administration to expand its proposed study of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising to include televised and internet advertising and to test the i
Eight organizations have received grants to provide environmental infection control and hazard recognition training to health care and other workers with the potential for exposure to high-risk inf
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released a “Patient Engagement Playbook”
Hospitals participating in the first four cohorts of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality program led by the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate reduced catheter-associ
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology should measure not only electronic health information exchange and use, but the ava
The AHA yesterday urged the Federal Trade Commission to continue any administrative proceedings involving the proposed combination of Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth until after a federal
An estimated 84% of non-federal acute care hospitals had at least a basic electronic health record in 2015, up from 76% in 2014 and 28% in 2011, according to a