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CHI Health and Creighton University Medical Center, an academic medical center in Omaha, Neb., partnered to design and build University Clinic, a new primary care-based medical facility that functions as a learning laboratory for inter-professional health sciences education, research and鈥
Penny Wheeler, M.D., CEO of Allina Health in Minneapolis, will chair AHA's Health Systems Council in 2021, and Bob Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health in Edison, N.J., will serve as chair-elect.
U.S. life expectancy rose an average 0.1 year in 2019, to 81.4 for females and 76.3 for males, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently released new webinars and tools to support state Medicaid and Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program agencies and their partners in efforts to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.
The Food and Drug Administration warned that Curative鈥檚 SARS-Cov-2 test could produce false results and that health care providers should strictly follow its authorization and labeling.
The Food and Drug Administration reminded the public of the importance of receiving COVID-19 vaccines in accordance to their agency authorizations, a process that FDA said will safely provide the 鈥渞emarkable鈥 levels of protection observed during large, randomized clinical trials.
The National Quality Forum鈥檚 Measure Applications Partnership recently initiated its statutorily required annual review of the quality measures that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is considering for use in federal programs.
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology should extend the deadline to comply with its final rule implementing information blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act to 2022 or six months after the end of the COVID-19鈥
The AHA praised a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 proposed rule that would remove inappropriate barriers to patient care by streamlining the prior authorization processes for the impacted health plans; however the association said it was deeply disappointed that CMS chose not to鈥
New research conducted by the National Institutes of Health is shedding light on how COVID-19 affects patients鈥 brains.