Headline
The latest stories from AHA Today.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today held a hearing on laboratory developed tests, which are developed, validated and performed by individual laboratories, including hospital laboratories, when commercial diagnostic tests do not exist or meet clinical needs.
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care today kicked off a two-day summit focused on the future of advanced illness care. Addressing attendees, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack called for policy changes to help palliative care initiatives.
A DC federal court trial judge today denied the government’s request to delay further proceedings in a case brought by the AHA and three hospital organizations to compel the Department of Health and Human Services to meet its congressionally mandated deadlines for reviewing Medicare…
Average Medicare payments for a lower extremity joint replacement hospitalization and 90-day post-discharge period declined $1,166 more for hospitals participating in the first 21 months of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative than for comparison hospitals that did not participate,…
Federal agencies will participate this week in more than 250 events as part of Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week, proclaimed Friday by President Obama to raise awareness about the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic.
The National Academy of Medicine today released discussion papers for its Vital Directions for Health and Health Care initiative, which will provide guidance on priorities for health and health care to the incoming administration and other health care leaders and policymakers. The papers will…
The Florida Department of Health has expanded the area of mosquito-born Zika virus transmission in Miami Beach to about 4.5 square miles, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Saturday. “CDC is coordinating closely with Florida officials and providing technical support…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a Sept. 22 webinar on “Empowering Nurses for Early Sepsis Recognition.” Experts will discuss lessons learned from engaging nurses when expanding sepsis early recognition programs; piloting sepsis early recognition programs;…
Public health agencies and clinical data registries must report on their readiness to receive electronic public health measures by Oct. 31 for inclusion in a centralized repository early next year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
More than 50 health care leaders discussed strategies to improve health equity and eliminate health care disparities at an AHA-Joint Commission summit today in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. Institute for Diversity in Health Management President and CEO Tomás León co-facilitated the summit,…