The Department of Health and Human Servicesā Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released a final ā
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The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General yesterday issued as part of National Health IT Week a
The Comprehensive Primary Care initiative generated $24 million in gross savings in 2014, the first shared savings performance year of the program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) today urged Congress to move forward on mental health reform.
Charity care alone cannot measure a hospital’s value to its community, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack said today at a Brookings Institution roundtable on health care economics after imple
The AHA Oct. 7 urged Congress to pass the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (SMARTER) Act, S.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a final rule with commen
Legislation to create a Medicare value-based purchasing program for post-acute care āis too narrowly focused on cutting provider payment rather than promoting āvalueā,ā AHA said in a letter today t
The Senate Health, Labor, Education & Pensions Committee today held a
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host on Oct.
More than 1,000 health care facilities have joined the American Society for Healthcare Engineering’s Energy to Care program, ASHE
The American Organization of Nurse Executives has chosen as its next president-elect Joan Clark, senior vice president and system chief nurse executive at Texas Health Resources in Arlington.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration Friday updated a recent advisory urging
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today awarded $11 million to create six new c
President Obama Saturday declared an emergency i
A new book by the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) identifies challenges, opportunities and action steps for transforming adva
Hospitalsā performance on most quality measures was improving before the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program began in October 2012 and did not noticeably change during the first two years of th