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Post-acute care (PAC) providers are critical partners in the transition toward a more integrated, value-based delivery system, panelists said at a May 1 special AHA Annual meeting briefing.Panelists described the new partnerships emerging between hospitals and PAC providers and the regulatory…
Speaking May 1 at a diversity roundtable at the AHA annual meeting, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) official expressed her support for the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to Eliminate Health Care Disparities, and encouraged hospital leaders to “find their voice” on…
Patrick Conway, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deputy administrator for innovation and quality and chief medical officer, this week indicated that the agency will consider giving hospitals more flexibility in meeting the meaningful use criteria in the Electronic Health Records…
First-year enrollment at U.S. medical schools has increased by 25%, or 4,143 students, since 2002, according to the latest annual survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The schools have been ramping up enrollment to address a projected shortage of up to 94,700 physicians…
U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro today named three new members to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee, which recommends policies and standards to the National Coordinator for Health IT. James Ferguson, vice president of HIT strategy and policy at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched “Clean Hands Count,” a campaign promoting adherence to the agency’s hand hygiene guidelines to prevent healthcare-associated infections. The campaign offers posters, factsheets and brochures that aim to raise…
Participants at this week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting got a preview of a new AHA video honoring the more than 5 million people who care for patients, families and communities every day as part of America’s hospitals and health systems. Created entirely from real photos…
Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) late yesterday introduced the AHA-supported Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 5164), which would permanently extend the enforcement moratorium on “direct supervision” of outpatient therapeutic services for…
A study published yesterday in BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal, estimates that more Americans may die from medical errors than from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Extrapolating from four previous studies based on data from 2000 to 2008, researchers from Johns Hopkins School…
Health care quality is improving overall, especially in hospitals, and more people have health care coverage and a usual source of medical care since the Affordable Care Act took effect, according to a new report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The report combines the agency…