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Alphabet Is Tackling Far More Than the ABCs of Health
Google and its Alphabet and Verily units that are targeting health care certainly aren’t thinking small. Here are several ambitious health care projects that the companies are undertaking, based on a recent CNBC report.
Case study: How an Indiana hospital learned from an active shooter incident
King’s Daughters’Hospital in Madison, Ind., beefed up security, training and communication after a shooting in its emergency department.
Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference registration open
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare will hold its 2019 Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference Sept. 8-10 in Boston.
Reminder: Feb. 28 deadline to submit eCQM, PIP attestation data
Hospitals participating in the Inpatient Quality Reporting and/or Promoting Interoperability Programs must submit data by Feb. 28 to receive a full payment update in fiscal year 2020.
Federal task force to help develop, deploy emergency diagnostics
The FDA, CDC and CMS today launched the Tri-Agency Task Force for Emergency Diagnostics, which will work to rapidly develop and deploy diagnostic tests to clinical and public laboratories in an emergency.
House passes bipartisan bill reauthorizing poison control centers
The House of Representatives last night passed by voice vote bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the national network of Poison Control Centers.
Senate Finance Committee presses drug companies for price solutions
The Senate Finance Committee today held the second in a planned series of bipartisan hearings on high prescription drug prices, which featured executives from drug companies AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pfizer and Sanofi.
Nurses with BSN degrees at all-time high, center says
Also in this roundup of nurse-related news: a school nurse saves a student’s life, and executive moves in the field.
How to kick start innovation in your organization
The AHA has partnered with The University of Chicago Booth School of Business to develop a new training opportunity for health care leaders, Building and Leading a Culture of Innovation. The course, which is offered in April and July, will help leaders uncover behaviors that inhibit innovation in their organizations, and develop a plan for unblocking them guided by best practices for change management.
FDA previews 2019 plans to address opioid epidemic
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., yesterday announced the agency’s 2019 agenda to address the opioid epidemic.