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The Federal Communications Commission and National Cancer Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding that will focus on how increasing broadband access and adoption can improve the lives of rural cancer patients. As an inaugural project, the agencies have convened a public-private…
The AHA today released a suite of resources to help post-acute care providers prepare for Medicare’s new payment program for clinicians under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. From an on-demand webinar outlining the most salient issues for PAC providers to a quality measure…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today held the third in a series of bipartisan hearings on how to make prescription drugs more affordable, which focused on recent recommendations from a National Acade
A new AHA podcast spotlights an innovative New Jersey Hospital Association program that trains veterans to help other veterans navigate the health insurance marketplace and enroll in coverage. Open enrollment for 2018 coverage through Healthcare.gov ends Dec. 15.
AHA will host a Dec. 13 webinar on a Cone Health initiative to align diversity and inclusion, community engagement, business operations and population health to achieve equity. For more information or to register for the 1 p.m. ET webinar, click here.
The AHA’s Association for Community Health Improvement will host its 2018 National Conference March 14-16 in Atlanta, which will focus on building bridges to improve community health. For more information and to register to attend, click here. ACHI provides educational resources and tools,…
The Food and Drug Administration seeks stakeholder input on how it might use Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies to facilitate appropriate prescribing of opioid pain relievers.
The American Clinical Laboratory Association today filed a federal lawsuit claiming the Department of Health and Human Services ignored congressional intent and instituted a “highly flawed” data reporting process in advance of setting market rates under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, and…
New Jersey hospitals and health systems contributed $23.4 billion and nearly 144,000 jobs to the state and local economy in 2016, according to a new report by the New Jersey Hospital Association.
The AHA's Hospitals Against Violence initiative Dec. 14 will host the first in a series of webinars focused on human trafficking led by Holly Austin Gibbs from Dignity Health. This presentation, titled Human Trafficking 101: Dispelling the Myths, will share Dignity Health's information on and their…