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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its guidance for hospitals and critical access hospitals to permit health care team members to share patient information and orders with each other through a HIPAA-compliant secure texting platform that complies with Medicare and Medicaid鈥
CMS's Conditions of Participation as accreditation standards | Proposed rule - Learn about the proposed rule by CMS that requires accrediting organizations to use CMS's Conditions of Participation as their minimum accreditation standards. Find out how this change can align accreditation鈥
Learn how hospitals and health systems are improving maternal and child health outcomes in this synopsis of the latest resources from AHA鈥檚 Better Health for Mothers and Babies initiative.
Jonathan Ripp, M.D., chief wellness officer for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and one of the nation鈥檚 first, discusses his role and how the importance of employee wellness has evolved over the past decade.
A new AHA infographic explains the need for Congress to enact the Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act (H.R. 2584/S. 2768), bipartisan legislation that would give health care workers federal protections from workplace violence similar to the current protections for airport and鈥
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Feb. 8 issued a final rule implementing Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act provisions to ensure health care providers have more complete and timely information when treating patients with substance use disorder.
AHA鈥檚 latest social media toolkit for encouraging vaccination against the flu and COVID-19 provides verified facts about the flu and COVID-19 vaccines, along with messages themed around Valentine鈥檚 Day.
On Feb. 14 at 3 p.m. ET, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a webinar to explain and answer questions about the hospital global budget methodology for Medicare fee-for-service patients under the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD)鈥
Billionaire-backed Arnold Ventures is once again pushing its anti-hospital agenda with a new one-page 鈥渞eport鈥 making the Orwellian claim that 鈥渟ite-neutral payment reforms will protect rural patients,鈥 writes Aaron Wesolowski, AHA vice president of research strategy and policy communications.
The health care sector should quickly implement patches or mitigations to address 21 new cyber vulnerabilities identified by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in January, the Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) advised鈥