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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in a Dec. 10 letter to state Medicaid directors provided state agencies with guidance pertaining to two provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.
The Food and Drug Administration updated its fact sheets for providers and recipients and caregivers for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, with each revised document outlining a contraindication for the vaccine’s administration to individuals with histories of thrombosis with…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling ordering the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services vaccine mandate rule to resume in about half of the country while saying 24 states are not subject to the mandate.
After treating the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in the U.S., Providence health system was able to use its scale and scope to quickly ramp up and deploy resources in response to the unprecedented public health emergency, the organization writes in “Better Together: The Value of Scale.”
In this podcast, Rebecca Chickey, AHA’s senior director of field engagement and behavioral health services, speaks with leaders from Allina Health in Minnesota and western Wisconsin about mental health and addiction services and key digital innovations that the health system is using to provide…
In a recent memo to state survey agencies, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services encouraged hospitals to review their maternal health policies and procedures and incorporate maternal safety bundles and other evidence-based best practices for managing obstetric emergencies and addressing…
President Biden ordered federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, to take certain actions to reduce administrative burden and improve the customer experience for organizations and the public.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has created a webpage to provide the latest public information and vendor-supplied advisories on a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Apache Log4j software library versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1.
A ransomware attack has impacted several Ultimate Kronos Group services that hospitals and other organizations use to manage their employees and payrolls, the HR management company has confirmed.
Pfizer announced additional phase 2/3 clinical trial data for its COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment, indicating the pill’s high degree of effectiveness in reducing high-risk patients’ risks of hospitalization or death from SARS-CoV-2 infection.