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A new study from Johns Hopkins Medicine offers hospitals a glimpse of how artificial intelligence (AI) could make prevention programs more accessible without compromising results.
A new AHA Trailblazers report, “Small Things Matter in Infection Prevention,” explores how hospitals are expanding surveillance programs to include peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) and other vascular access devices — an area that represents both high volume and untapped opportunity for…
Today the Federation of American Hospitals and the American Hospital Association released a new study conducted by Dobson | DaVanzo that underscores the threat to patient care of expanding physician-owned hospitals (POHs) in rural communities.
Our analysis shows that the introduction of a POH could negatively impact the financial health of existing SCHs by siphoning profitable service types and reducing their proportion of healthier, commercially insured patients.
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government moved quickly to ensure hospitals and health systems were able to leverage telehealth services to respond efficiently and effectively to a wave of unprecedented need.
A new analysis by the accounting firm EY (also known as Ernst and Young) for the AHA shows that tax-exempt hospitals and health systems delivered more than $11 in benefits to their communities for every dollar’s worth of federal tax exemption in 2022, the most recent year for which comprehensive…
EY was commissioned by the American Hospital Association to analyze the federal revenue forgone due to the tax exemptions of U.S. nonprofit hospitals relative to the community benefits they provide. This study presents estimates for 2022, the most recent year for which complete comparable community…
Medical personnel from the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing are receiving clinical training from UW Health in Madison, Wis., giving the airmen a reliable and ongoing learning platform and ensuring their readiness to support local and global missions.
The Patient Education Advisory Council at Dartmouth Health supports the creation of high-quality patient education materials.
On October 6, 2025, security researchers at Defused reported a path traversal flaw in Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) being exploited in-the-wild as a zero-day since October 2025.