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AHA Associate Podcast Series | Draffin Tucker

Kathleen Wessel discusses rural health care with Jeff Askey and Sarah Dekutowski, partners with Draffin Tucker. Rural and critical access hospitals and health systems often face different challenges than larger health systems, especially in light of COVID-19. As a full-service CPA and advisory firm serving the health care field, Draffin Tucker can speak to the challenges and nuances of rural health care.

AHA Associate Podcast Series | Futurism Technologies

Kathleen Wessel, VP of Business Management and Operations for the AHA, welcomed Leo Cole, Chief Marketing Officer of Futurism Technologies to the podcast. Hospitals and health systems with limited resources may find it difficult to allocate time and funding to assessing their digital capabilities and strategizing for improvement. In its work with AHA members, Futurism Technologies has led small projects with big impact in this arena.

AHRMM LUC Comments to the FDA’s Communications About the Safety of Medical Devices

The AHRMM LUC members submitted public comments and recommendations at the FDA's November 2020 meeting related to the need to include the UDI in the recall process. They highlighted the prototype recall database and electronic submission form, as well as survey data supporting its creation.
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AHA Names Rural Hospital Leadership Award Winner and Finalist

The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) in Bennington, Vt., as the 2020 recipient of the Rural Hospital Leadership Award. The award recognizes small or rural hospital leaders who guide their hospital and community through transformational change on the road to health care reform.

Take Five: Make Room for Transformation and Innovation Conversations

Take Five, a new series of five-minute video conversations from the AHA Center for Health Innovation, focuses on ways in which innovative hospitals, health systems and their partners are transforming care.

The Future of Pediatric Care | Take Five | Center

In this episode, Omkar Kulkarni, chief innovation officer at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, talks about leading innovations in pediatric care.

HHS to relax requirements allowing physicians to prescribe buprenorphine

Physicians registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration will no longer need to meet the X-waiver requirement to prescribe treatments such as buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, the Department of Health and Human Services announced.

HHS revising procedures related to civil enforcement actions

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar directed the department’s operating divisions and offices to review and revise their procedures related to civil enforcement actions and adjudications “to ensure that they promote fairness and transparency.”

CMS releases final rule for Medicare Advantage, prescription drug plans

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized additional provisions for the Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug programs beginning in 2022.