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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, M.D., released a report urging Americans to recognize and address hypertension control as a national public health priority.
For the latest in her Leadership Rounds series of conversations with hospital and health system leaders from across the nation, AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., is joined by Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D., senior vice president of community health and equity and chief wellness and diversity officer…
An estimated 7.7 million workers lost jobs with employer-sponsored health insurance between February and June during the pandemic, according to a study released by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, W.E.
The Food and Drug Administration recommended that health care providers provide written or video step-by-step instructions, in addition to verbal instructions, to patients who are self-collecting anterior nares (nasal) samples for COVID-19 testing in a health care setting.
The Food and Drug Administration warned Battelle Memorial Institute that its respirator decontamination system does not comply with the requirement in its emergency use authorization to establish internal systems that provide for timely and effective identification, communication and evaluation of…
Pittsburgh’s UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital adopted a variety of technologies to improve clinical outcomes and promote greater patient engagement.
The AHA has elected to fill a vacancy on its Board of Trustees Phyllis Cowling, president and CEO of United Regional Health Care System in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Financial institutions and other organizations that facilitate ransomware payments may face sanctions for assisting a malicious cyber actor that the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned, according to a recent OFAC advisory.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has used the “4Ms Framework” for an Age-Friendly Health System in its geriatric fracture program and for telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The American Medical Association released for immediate use Current Procedural Terminology codes for reporting on medical claims two laboratory tests (87636 and 87637) that simultaneously detect the COVID-19 virus, influenza A/B and respiratory syncytial virus.