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The nation needs to make 鈥渞apid progress to develop secure systems for interoperability, not only to improve care and engage patients, but to support new models of care,鈥 AHA today told members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
The Minnesota Hospital Association will receive the 2015 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership for its work to improve health care quality, AHA announced today. The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania was selected as an honorable mention for the鈥
鈥淗ospitals are at a crossroads as we move to the future,鈥 says AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack in this brief AHA News podcast. 鈥淓verybody is trying to determine what the best pathway is to that future, and there are multiple pathways.鈥漃ollack will become the AHA鈥
Rural hospital leaders today made their case for regulatory relief from federal policies 鈥 like the 96-hour physician certification requirement, direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services and interoperability standards for health information technology 鈥 at a briefing on鈥
The AHA today responded to a report that is the 鈥渓atest in a series of attempts to misrepresent鈥 the 340B Drug Pricing Program and the benefits it helps bring to poor patients and vulnerable communities.
President Barack Obama today addressed members of the Catholic Health Association of the United States as it marked its 100th anniversary, thanking them for their efforts to help Americans access care and coverage. Speaking at the 2015 Catholic Health Assembly in Washington, D.C., he traced the 100鈥
The rise in health care costs is expected to slow in 2016 to 6.5%, but growth will continue to outpace overall inflation, according to a new report from PwC鈥檚 Health Research Institute.
Rural hospital leaders made their case for regulatory relief from federal policies 鈥 like the 96-hour physician certification requirement, direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services and meaningful use standards for health information technology 鈥 at a June 9 briefing on Capitol鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 24 will host a national provider call on its proposed methodology for determining the overall star ratings for measures on Hospital Compare, which the agency will make publicly available soon. On the call, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Sens. John Thune (R-SD), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Jon Tester (D-MT) have introduced S. 1461, bipartisan legislation to extend through calendar year 2015 the enforcement delay on direct supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services provided in critical access鈥