More than 1,000 health care facilities have joined the American Society for Healthcare Engineering’s Energy to Care program, ASHE
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The American Organization of Nurse Executives has chosen as its next president-elect Joan Clark, senior vice president and system chief nurse executive at Texas Health Resources in Arlington.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration Friday updated a recent advisory urging
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today awarded $11 million to create six new c
President Obama Saturday declared an emergency i
A new book by the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) identifies challenges, opportunities and action steps for transforming adva
Hospitals’ performance on most quality measures was improving before the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program began in October 2012 and did not noticeably change during the first two years of th
Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg and PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, OR, treated victims in yesterday’s shooting at a community college campus in Roseburg
The risk corridors program will pay only 12.6% of 2014 claims requested by insurers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Efforts to improve quality of care for patients in minority-serving and racially integrated hospitals should focus on the lowest performers, according to a new
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host two webinars this month on its request for informa
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.32% in September to a seasonally adjusted 4,939,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Dame tu Mano (Give me your hand) is Elkhart (Ind.) General Hospital’s effort to coordinate health outreach to the county’s Latino residents.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee still plans to propose legislation this year to advance the interoperability of electronic health records, one of many reasons the admin
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently clarified certain meaningful use objectives and measures in the Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentives Programs.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey, available today through Oct. 16.
The House Judiciary Committee today voted 18-10 to approve the Standard Merg
The Senate voted 78-20 today to pass a continuing resolution funding most federal programs at their current levels through Dec. 11.