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AHA’s Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Robyn Begley and Microsoft’s Molly McCarthy highlight a free course to help health care leaders prepare to implement artificial intelligence tools to drive innovation, process improvement and better patient outcomes
In this AHA blog post, Sean Marotta, AHA outside counsel, shares five things to look for when the Supreme Court hears oral argument Nov. 10 in the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
Kevin Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, joined AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., today to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its recommended practices to prevent and control infection in health care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Tomorrow is the deadline for hospitals and other health care providers to apply for a portion of $20 billion in funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.
The Department of Health and Human Services published a proposed rule that would require the agency to assess certain significant regulations every 10 years to determine whether those regulations instead are subject to review under the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely than their non-pregnant counterparts to be admitted to an intensive care unit, receive invasive ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or die, according to a study of 461,825 women with symptomatic COVID-19 released by the Centers for Disease…
The Food and Drug Administration reminded clinical laboratory staff and health care providers to follow recommended steps to prevent false positive results from antigen tests for the COVID-19 virus, citing reports of false positives in nursing homes and other settings.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would like to partner with one or more organizations to enable centralized reporting from COVID-19 testing entities to public health departments, the agency said this week in a request for information.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering presented its 2020 Excellence in Health Care Facility Management Award  to Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health for implementing process, software and data changes that allow its maintenance technicians and leadership to view enterprise-wide data on…