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Webinar: AHA Advocacy Alliance for Rural Hospitals Federal Update – May 1 - Member Only

A panel of 4 experts discussed federal policy emerging from Congress and the Administration under COVID-19 focusing on rural health priorities and took questions from the audience. They reviewed emergency funding, Medicare and Medicaid payment improvements, telehealth, regulatory relief, 340B drug pricing, access to PPE and steps toward recovery.
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CMS Releases Additional Waivers for COVID-19

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released a number of new waivers related to COVID-19.
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HC3 Threat Briefing TLP White: Threat Modeling for Mobile Health Systems (April 30, 2020)

Advances in mobile health (mHealth), respectively Io THealth, are likely to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare. Although telehealth systems may improve the quality

AHA podcast spotlights connecting care through telemedicine

Health experts agree that telemedicine’s ability to bring virtual expertise to bedsides everywhere is a vital tool for fighting COVID-19.
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Using Telehealth to Address Behavioral Issues

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals and health systems are expanding telehealth services. In addition, addressing mental health needs during this crisis is becoming increasingly important. In part one of this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Jay Bhatt, D.O., senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, discusses the value of telehealth to address behavioral health issues and poses questions for leadership teams with Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, and Arpan Waghray, M.D., executive medical director for behavioral medicine at Swedish Health Services in Seattle and chief medical officer at Well Being Trust. The AHA and NQF partnered to create Redesigning Care: A How-To Guide for Telebehavioral Health.
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Using Telehealth to Address Behavioral Issues (Part Two)

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals and health systems are expanding telehealth services. In part two, Jay Bhatt, D.O., senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, continues the discussion on the value of telehealth to address behavioral health issues with Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, and Arpan Waghray, M.D., executive medical director for behavioral medicine at Swedish Health Services in Seattle and chief medical officer at Well Being Trust.

Confronting Coronavirus: How Hospitals Are Transforming in Coronavirus Fight

Here are some of the latest ways hospitals, health systems and others are adapting operations to stem the pandemic surge.

Chair File: Telehealth’s Role in the Battle Against COVID-19

As our nation’s caregivers remain courageously entrenched in the battle against COVID-19, AHA is working to ensure that telehealth is realizing its potential as one of the most powerful health care tools in the arsenal.