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The AHA Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems committed to leadership and innovation in improving quality and advancing health.
Mergers, acquisitions and affiliations. Most health care leaders agree that the future, especially for rural providers, will involve more cooperation and partnerships.
H-ISAC TLP Green Daily Cyber Headlines for August 9, 2023.
AHA remains deeply concerned over the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) policies related to disproportionate share hospital payments in the agency’s final Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
Health-ISAC has observed multiple incidents involving ransomware threat actors attacking healthcare and medical research facilities around the globe.
AHA is greatly disappointed that HHS chose to propose “budget neutrality adjustments” to offset this legally-required remedy. The statutes that HHS relies on in its proposed rule do not give it the authority to make a “budget neutrality adjustment.”
2023 AHA Board Chair John Haupert talks with three health care leaders affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB): Terri Poe, chief nursing officer at UAB Medicine; Maria Rodriguez Shirey, dean of the UAB School of Nursing; and Shea Polancich, assistant dean for clinical…
On August 04, 2023, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released a sector alert regarding a ransomware variant and threat group, identified as Rhysida Ransomware.
Rhysida is a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that has emerged since May 2023. The group drops an eponymous ransomware via phishing attacks and Cobalt Strike to breach targets’ networks and deploy their payloads.
A bipartisan group of 51 senators, led by Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and James Lankford, R-Okla., this week urged Senate leaders to avert $8 billion in annual payment cuts to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program, which are scheduled to begin Oct. 1 and continue for four years.