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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Feb. 12 designated CommonWell Health Alliance and Kno2 as Qualified Health Information Networks, meaning seven QHINs can now electronically exchange health information nationwide under…
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…
Congress recently passed a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown, which extended the deadlines to fund the government for the remainder of fiscal year 2024. Congress now must fund four appropriations bills by March 1 and eight appropriations bills by March 8 — or pass another stop-gap bill to…
As congressional leaders continue to hammer out annual spending bills ahead of the Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 deadlines to fund various agencies, a number of important issues affecting hospitals and health systems are being considered.
Even prior to the pandemic, the biggest questions facing health care providers were: Where is our field headed? And, how can we continue to innovate and transform to deliver the best possible patient care in a fast-changing future?
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association and the Texas Hospital Association (Associations), along with Texas Health Resources and United Regional Health Care System (Hospitals), bring this action because the federal government is threatening to enforce against hospitals and health systems a new rule that…
AHA Leadership Scan: A Series of Virtual Panel DiscussionsSolutions to Improve Shared Decision-Making and Informed Consent How to engage patients with evidence-based information and insights Tuesday, December 12, 2023 1 - 2 p.m. Eastern; noon - 1 p.m. Central; 10 - 11 a.m. Pacific…
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA), joined by the Texas Hospital Association, Texas Health Resources, and United Regional Health Care System, today sued the federal government to bar enforcement of an unlawful, harmful, and counterproductive rule that has upended hospitals’ and health systems…
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA), joined by the Texas Hospital Association, Texas Health Resources, and United Regional Health Care System, today sued the federal government to bar enforcement of an unlawful, harmful, and counterproductive rule that has upended hospitals’ and health systems…
ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA) v. Rainer concerns a new rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that severely restricts hospitals’ ability to rely on common third-party technologies that they use to analyze their websites and communicate…