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The latest stories from AHA Today.

Health care leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and others recently met in San Diego to explore opportunities to leverage their data and insights, and address workforce resiliency, venture capital investing, skill sets needed for next-generation leaders and more.
Hospital leaders from the AHA’s vaccine confidence initiative share tips for building COVID-19 vaccine confidence.
Fewer than one in three people with health insurance receive direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C within a year of diagnosis, ranging from 23% of Medicaid enrollees to 35% of people with private insurance, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and…
Learn how hospital and health system leaders such as Cyndy Banik Dunlap, vice president of nursing/chief nursing officer for Ascension, are supporting caregivers with digital health technologies like smart beds and virtual nursing units to simplify workflows and relieve burden.
The first Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services model to screen patients for health-related social needs and refer them to needed services ended in April. In a new Health Affairs blog post, officials share findings and promising practices from the five-year model.
The Health Resources and Services Administration today awarded $45.7 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to develop the public health workforce in rural and tribal communities
The Senate yesterday voted 51-50 to pass the Inflation Reduction Act (H.R. 5376), a roughly $700 billion social spending package that includes health care, climate change and tax provisions.
Hospitals and health systems added 12,900 jobs in July, while U.S. jobs overall increased by 528,000, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
HHS launched Giving = Living, a campaign to encourage Americans to donate blood and plasma regularly.
A new advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Australian Cyber Security Centre details the top malware strains observed last year and immediate actions organizations should take to protect themselves from these remote access Trojans, information stealers and…