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Hospital systems make it easier to access and coordinate care, according to a national survey of their patients conducted by Morning Consult for the AHA.
Two leaders from South Dakota-based Monument Health discuss the rural health system’s health equity journey, which captured this year’s AHA Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award for excellence in advancing health equity in rural or small communities.
Oct. 28 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, an opportunity for the public to safely dispose of unwanted or expired tablets, capsules, patches and other solid forms of prescription drugs.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center this week alerted organizations to a critical vulnerability affecting certain versions of the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server that enables malicious actors to obtain access…
WellSpan Health’s Specialized Treatment and Recovery Team in York County, Pa., provides integrated care for patients considered too complex for conventional outpatient treatment or who require immediate access to car
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights Oct. 18 released a resource for health care providers who choose to educate patients about telehealth privacy and security, noting that the HIPAA rules do not require it.
AHA on Oct. 19 submitted a statement to the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on legislative proposals involving Medicare.
President and CEO John Chessare, M.D., shares how GBMC HealthCare began investing in its Baltimore community by specifically focusing on social determinants of health.
Physician-owned hospitals cherry-pick healthy and wealthy patients, provide limited emergency services and increase costs for patients, providers and the federal government, write AHA Executive Vice President Stacey Hughes and Federation of American Hospitals President and CEO Chip Kahn.
On Oct. 31 at 1 p.m. ET, the Food and Drug Administration will host a webinar to review its recent proposed rule for laboratory developed tests, which would amend the agency’s regulations to require most laboratory developed tests to meet the same medical device requirements as other in vitro…