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The AHA today urged the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to build on its improved platform for the draft 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory to increase stakeholders’ ability to judge the readiness of specific standards for use in clinical care. Among other…
The Food and Drug Administration will hold an all-day workshop on Dec. 5 to solicit input from hospitals and other medical providers on how to improve its data collection about adverse medical events related to medical devices. The agency also seeks input on the broader role of hospitals in…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will award about $70 million in supplemental funding for Zika through its Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement program, the agency announced Friday.
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management and American College of Healthcare Executives have entered into a strategic alliance to co-promote the Summer Enrichment Program to grow and strengthen the pipeline of diverse health care leaders.
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering encourages health care facility and energy managers to complete its energy and water survey by Nov. 18. The Environmental Protection Agency will use anonymous data from the survey to update its ENERGY STAR scoring models for hospitals and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today posted data on Department of Veterans Affairs hospital performance to the Hospital Compare website. The data includes process, outcome and experience of care measures, including mortality and readmission rates for selected conditions and…
The Health Resources and Services Administration yesterday awarded cities, states and community-based organizations $2.3 billion in fiscal year 2016 grants to support medical and support services, including medications, for people with HIV/AIDS. “The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program plays an…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday restored $44.25 million in funding for all-hazards preparedness to states, cities and territories, which had been redirected to respond to the Zika virus. The new funds are part of the fiscal year 2016 Zika supplemental funding…
The combined number of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases reached a record high in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week. Primary and secondary syphilis cases grew 19% to nearly 24,000, including a 6% increase among newborns, CDC said. Gonorrhea cases…
Tomorrow is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, when the public can safely dispose of unwanted or expired prescription pills at 4,700 sites throughout the country. Since 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration event has collected more than six million pounds of pills, including opioid…