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Veterans made 21.3 million appointments through the Patient-Centered Community Care program in fiscal year 2015, about 20% more than in FY 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced today. Another 3 million veterans were authorized to receive private sector care through the Veterans…
The proportion of U.S. adults without health insurance has declined about 6.1 percentage points since fourth-quarter 2013, to 11%, according to a Gallup analysis of the Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index survey for first-quarter 2016. Hispanic and African-American adults, young adults and…
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is accepting proposals to participate in an initiative launched with AHA and others to transform clinical training for residents and physicians who pursue formal specialty and subspecialty training at ACGME-accredited institutions.
AHA’s flagship magazine took home a top honor April 1 at the 2016 Jesse H. Neal Awards for specialized journalism, presented by the trade association Connectiv.
The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year. Hospitals and health systems must adapt to a revolution in information transparency that has turned patients into “powerful health care consumers,” says AHA board member Steven Johnson, president and…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology seeks public input through June 3 on how to measure the achievement of widespread exchange of health information through interoperable certified electronic health record technology by…
The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury yesterday released the final template, glossary and other materials that health plans will use to provide a Summary of Benefits and Coverage to applicants and enrollees effective April 1, 2017.
Based on a review of case studies and published literature, a new report from the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine identifies six practices that show promise for improving care for socially at-risk populations: commitment to health…
Many white medical students and residents hold false beliefs about biological differences between black and white people that may contribute to racial disparities in pain assessment and treatment, according to two related studies reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
A new paper by two respected economists “throws cold water” on an untested theory that claims competition falls and prices rise when hospitals in distant geographies combine, writes Melinda Reid Hatton, AHA general counsel and senior vice president, in an AHASTAT blog post.