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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights yesterday announced a $750,000 settlement with University of Washington Medicine over potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s security rule.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to complete the eighth annual Information Technology Supplement to the AHA Annual Survey. The survey was mailed to hospital CEOs this month for their chief information officer to complete on paper or online by Dec. 28.
Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy activity impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program and review results from the AHA's latest RACTrac survey during a webinar on Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. ET. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact…
The AHA Friday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program framework to reflect experience and the need for flexibility, and delay new requirements until the health information exchange standards and infrastructure are mature.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will accept comments through Jan. 13 on draft guidelines for primary care physicians prescribing opioids to adults for chronic pain in outpatient settings.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Town Hall teleconference Dec. 21 to solicit input from hospitals and other stakeholders as it works to prepare rulemaking that will implement requirements under the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy will host on Wednesday in Oklahoma the first in a series of regional forums on evidence-based initiatives to prevent and treat prescription opioid drug abuse and heroin use.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday deployed tools to help consumers estimate their out-of-pocket costs and identify physicians, facilities and prescription drugs included in the networks and formularies for specific health plans offered at HealthCare.gov.
The recent violence in communities across America may signal a “new normal” for necessary readiness, but America’s hospitals will continue to be there, ready to care, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in a column today in AHA’s Hospitals & Health Networks…
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is now accepting applications for its 2016 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program. Designed for senior leaders, the program is a one-year, leadership development experience designed to facilitate dialogue on all aspects of leadership and how it relates to a…