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The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office for Civil Rights Friday released guidance clarifying how health care providers can share health information with a patient鈥檚 family members, friends and legal representatives in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability鈥
The AHA ranked first of 50 trade associations on six of 15 measures of advocacy effectiveness, the most of any association, according to the results from APCO Worldwide鈥檚 annual TradeMarks study. The six areas are member representation, bipartisanship, industry reputation steward, information鈥
The AHA鈥檚 Association for the Healthcare Environment has named as its president-elect for 2018 Brad Winnie, environmental services manager at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee. As president-elect, he will become AHE president in 2020. The personal membership group for professionals who care鈥
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health鈥檚 use of telehealth services illustrates how necessity is the mother of innovation.The integrated delivery system turned to telehealth 25 years ago to bolster recruitment and retention of physicians in the more rurally remote regions it served.
The Department of Health and Human Services today issued proposed rules for the health insurance marketplaces for plan year 2019. HHS proposes a number of policy changes for both the individual market and the Small Business Health Options Program.
The Joint Commission today issued guidance to help hospitals and surveyors determine what constitutes adequate environmental safeguards to protect patients with suicidal ideation from self-harm.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week launched the window-shopping feature at HealthCare.gov, which allows consumers to preview 2018 plans and prices for the federal health insurance exchange before open enrollment begins Nov. 1.
The Department of Health and Human Services today alerted the health care and public health sector to an Oct. 24 ransomware attack against at least 20 news and real estate websites in Eastern Europe and Japan. The malware campaign, called 鈥淏ad Rabbit鈥 after the first two words on the ransom page,鈥
The AHA鈥檚 American Society for Healthcare Engineering this week presented its 2017 Excellence in Health Care Facility Management Award to Texas Children鈥檚 Hospital in Houston for its project to create a unified operations and communications hub that uses real-time data to effectively manage the鈥
Oct. 28 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, which aims to help the public safely dispose of unwanted or expired prescription pills at sites throughout the country. Since 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration event has collected more than 8.1 million pounds of pills, including opioid鈥