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Allegiance Health in Jackson, Mich., is in the “messy middle” of moving from being a provider of “sick care” to a community wellness-based system, says president and CEO Georgia Fojtasek.
At this week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting, the association recognized people and organizations that improve America’s health care. Among the major awards presented at the meeting were:
Hospitals and other providers need “smarter,” more streamlined regulations to help them improve care in a rapidly changing health care environment, Rep. Charles Boustany, R-LA, today told attendees at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting. Appearing from Louisiana via satellite, the House…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday posted its annual update to the 2014 electronic clinical quality measures. Eligible hospitals and professionals will use the updated specifications to electronically report eCQMs for CMS quality reporting programs in calendar year 2016,…
Three-quarters of emergency physicians say the volume of emergency department visits has increased since January 2014, when the Affordable Care Act required all Americans to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty, according to a new survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians.…
U.S. Hispanics (or Latinos) have a 24% lower overall death rate than whites, but are 50% more likely to die from diabetes or liver disease, according to a report on Hispanic health released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heart disease and cancer are the two leading…
About 11.7 million people enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program between Oct. 1, 2013 and Feb. 28, 2015, increasing total enrollment in the programs by 20.3% since the start of the first open enrollment period for the Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a…
U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro yesterday named three new members to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee, which recommends policies and standards to the National Coordinator for Health IT.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched a YouTube channel featuring videos on evidence-based training programs to improve hospital care through effective communications and teamwork. The channel includes about 50 videos on the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program toolkit…
The AHA and its Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development recently released a “Hospital Leadership Guide to Digital and Social Media Engagement,” which aims to provide information and best practices for using social media from the health care provider perspective.