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The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) finalized two rules giving patients access to their health care data and implementing interoperability, which refers to the
Health care leaders at Vidant Health, Greenville, N.C., improved worker engagement through an approach to team culture centered around love and empathy.
AONL announced it is partnering with other associations to launch the Coldiron Senior Nurse Executive Fellowship Program.
A chief clinical officer at Providence St. Joseph Health, Renton, Wash., the health system that cared for the first COVID-19 patient in the United States, detailed the system’s methods for dealing with the outbreak. During a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society webinar covered in…
Health care leaders are rethinking the logic of quarantining every health care worker after exposure to the coronavirus.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week issued a memorandum to align CMS policies with recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prev
AONL expressed support for the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2020 in a letter to Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill. Underwood introduced the bill along with other legislators and the Black Maternal Health Caucus. The United States has one of the worst maternal death rates in the developed world…
The National Quality Forum (NQF), in collaboration with insurance company Humana, released its latest resource: a guide with strategies health care organizations can use to address food insecurity in their communities.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee held a hearing March 3 on two substance use disorders (SUD) bills. The Opioid Workforce Act (H.R. 3414/S. 2892) would add 1,000 Medicare-funded training positions to approved residency programs in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry or pain…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected 205 applicants in 36 states to participate in the Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) payment model. The goal of the five-year, voluntary initiative is to provide greater flexibility to ambulance care teams to address the…