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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

The Government Accountability Office yesterday appointed five

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

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology should measure not only electronic health information exchange and use, but the ava

The AHA yesterday urged the Federal Trade Commission to continue any administrative proceedings involving the proposed combination of Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth until after a federal

A new report by the AHA offers information and guidance to help hospitals and health systems develop their behavioral health care

The AHA participated yesterday in a Rural Health Summit hosted by the Montana Hospital Association and Sen.

An estimated 84% of non-federal acute care hospitals had at least a basic electronic health record in 2015, up from 76% in 2014 and 28% in 2011, according to a

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a notice correcting a

Primary care practices can participate in both the Medicare Shared Savings Program and Comprehensive Primary Care Plus model in certain circumstances, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servic