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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held a hearing on the opioid crisis and 鈥渉ow to move forward.鈥 Journalist Sam Quinones, author of the book 鈥淒reamland: The True Tale of America鈥檚 Opiate Epidemic,鈥 shared his recommendations for addressing the crisis, which included鈥
The Senate Finance Committee today held a hearing for Alex Azar, President Trump鈥檚 nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services. Azar, former president of Lilly USA and deputy HHS secretary under the George W. Bush administration, faced a number of questions from senators about his ties to鈥
Only 12% of eligible hospitals signed up for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and 47% of them dropped out within two years, according to a study reported today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The voluntary鈥
David Hyman, DDS, a board director for Hartford (CT) HealthCare, will chair the AHA's 2018 Committee on Governance. Victor Orler, chair of Presence Health in Chicago, will serve as chair-elect and become chair in 2019. The COG is a specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees that provides鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released for comment a draft trusted exchange framework for sharing health information across networks, as required by the 21st Century Cures Act. The proposed framework would鈥
Intravenous saline and amino acid drug supplies should begin to increase in the next few weeks as manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico ramp up production, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., said yesterday in an update on the shortages. 鈥淛ust before the holidays鈥
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.24% in December to a seasonally adjusted 5,152,800 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 12,400 more people than in November and 75,800 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of鈥
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance and Regional Policy Boards beginning in 2019. For more information and to apply through Feb. 22, click here.
A new certificate program from the AHA鈥檚 Association for the Healthcare Environment will teach health care leaders who purchase or recommend products and equipment advanced skills for analyzing their value and ownership cost through a two-day instructor-led workshop starting in April.
The National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center鈥檚 Threat Intelligence Committee today alerted the field to two newly identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities, called Meltdown and Spectre. Meltdown affects all major operating systems running on machines with Intel chips made during the鈥