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The Department of Health and Human Services has established guidance for use by covered entities in their efforts to comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requirements regarding the privacy and security of protected health information, but it does not address all elements…
Reversing a district court ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit today granted a request by the Federal Trade Commission to prevent the integration of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth while the agency completes an administrative trial challenging the proposed…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Rural Health Solutions Summit Oct. 19 at its headquarters in Baltimore. Participants will include CMS leadership, the CMS Rural Health Council and stakeholders from all sectors of the health care field, who will “engage in in-depth…
Hospitals continue to improve patient care, according to results from the second round of the AHA/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative.The HRET HEN…
Hospitals continue to improve patient care, according to results from the second round of the AHA/Health Research & Educational Trust Hospital Engagement Network, part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative.
The National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care initiative today held a public symposium to inform a paper it will release this fall to provide guidance to the incoming administration on health and health care priorities. The symposium featured a series of…
Eligible professionals, hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program for the first time in 2016 must attest to meaningful use for a continuous 90-day reporting period by Oct. 1 to avoid a payment adjustment in 2017.
As part of National Health IT Week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released two new resources to help health care providers implement and use health IT. The Health IT Playbook offers implementation strategies, recommendations and best practices…
Six Oregon health care organizations will invest $21.5 million in an innovative partnership to support affordable housing and health care access in Portland: Adventist Health Portland; CareOregon; Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Legacy Health; OHSU and Providence Health & Services –…
The Massachusetts Hospital Association has announced a new name: the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA). President and CEO Lynn Nicholas said the new name “better reflects the new health care environment in which we’re all operating.