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The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering a limited number of seats in its 2016 examiner preparation course. Participants in the interactive course learn the same methods and techniques used by Baldrige examiners and network directly with the examiners and Baldrige staff throughout…
The president’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget request for nearly $420 billion in 10-year Medicare payment cuts to providers “would jeopardize hospitals’ ability to keep the promise of maintaining access to vital health care services,” the AHA said last week.
Adults hospitalized for acute cardiovascular disease, surgery or pneumonia are less likely to experience some adverse events in hospitals with certain electronic health record functions, according to a study published this week in The Journal of Patient Safety.
Remote patient monitoring does not reduce readmissions or mortality for older adults discharged home after inpatient treatment for heart failure, but recipients report better quality of life, according to results from a randomized clinical trial published online this week by JAMA Internal…
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force today issued a final recommendation that primary care clinicians screen all adolescents aged 12 to 18 for major depressive disorder. The panel said the screening should be implemented with adequate systems in place to ensure accurate diagnosis, effective…
Hospitals can apply through April 1 for a new American Society for Healthcare Engineering award for outstanding leadership in energy efficiency. The Energy Champion Award is part of ASHE’s Energy to Care program, which recognizes health care facilities that reduce their annual energy use by…
A federal appeals court Feb. 9 reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the AHA and several hospitals, which sought to compel the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to meet its congressionally mandated deadlines for reviewing Medicare claims denials. The…
A federal appeals court today reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the AHA and several hospitals, which sought to compel the Department of Health and Human Services to meet its congressionally mandated deadlines for reviewing Medicare claims denials.
President Obama today as part of his fiscal year 2017 budget request to Congress proposed nearly $420 billion in reductions to Medicare payments to providers. The proposed cuts are over 10 years. The budget request seeks an additional $27.6 billion over 10 years for Medicaid and the Children…
President Obama today announced a federal plan to enhance cybersecurity, which includes a new Commerce Department commission that will recommend by December how to strengthen cybersecurity in the public and private sectors.