A Senate appropriations subcommittee today approved legislation that would provide $161.9 billion in base discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education an
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The AHA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a one-page resource to help hospital patients who may be pre
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a final rule that ma
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has provided additional information on its temporary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services invites hospitals to submit innovative quality improvement practices to its Strategic Innovation Engine, which will evaluate them for possible disse
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, today launched a centralized data system for sharing cancer genomic and clinical data between researchers as part of the ad
The average premium change between 2015 and 2016 for the lowest-cost silver plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace varied widely by state, from a 12.1% decrease in Indiana to a 41.8% increase in
John Combes, M.D., AHA’s chief medical officer and senior vice president and president of its Center for Healthcare Governance, will retire in October after almost 12 years leading the associ
The nation continued to strengthen its preparedness in 2015, but some challenges persist and new ones have emerged, according to the
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued a streamlined form for physicians to request expanded access to investigational drugs
The Department of Labor yesterday awarded $200,000 each to 52 states and territories to expand and expedit
Hospitals participating in the AHA’s first-quarter 2016 RACTrac survey
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.33% in May to a seasonally adjusted 5,077,700 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a free webinar June 9 at 3:30 p.m. ET on infection control and prevention in the outpatient oncology setting.
The AHA today urged the Food and Drug Administration to expand its proposed study of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising to include televised and internet advertising and to test the i
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday
Eight organizations have received grants to provide environmental infection control and hazard recognition training to health care and other workers with the potential for exposure to high-risk inf
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released a “Patient Engagement Playbook”
Hospitals participating in the first four cohorts of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality program led by the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate reduced catheter-associ