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Marketing in a HIPAA World: Balancing Promotion of Care with Patient Privacy
Health care marketers are charged with promoting access to care. To do that, marketers need to meet potential patients where they are.
ASHE Annual Conference Highlights the Vital Role of the Built Environment in Patient Care
The American Society for Health Care Engineering Annual Conference will be held Aug. 6-9 in San Antonio. This gathering allows professionals to connect, discuss new and emerging trends, and explore long-standing issues.
Blog: August conference highlights vital role of built environment in patient care
Health care engineering professionals will connect to explore new and emerging trends and long-standing issues at the AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering Annual Conference, Aug. 6-9 in San Antonio.
AHA Recognizes Three Hospitals & Health Systems With The 2023 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award
The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Institute for Diversity and Health Equity (IFDHE) today announced that Meritus Health in Hagerstown, Md., Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., and Rapid City Hospital (Monument Health), in Rapid City, S.D., will receive the 2023 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care (EOC) Award. The awards will be presented during the AHA’s Leadership Summit in Seattle, July 16-18.
Patients, clinicians say health insurer policies reduce access to care
Health insurance policies and practices are reducing access to medical care, driving up health care costs and increasing clinician burden and burnout, according to patients and clinicians surveyed by Morning Consult for the AHA.
Health care price transparency bills advance in House
The House Education & Workforce Committee July 12 voted 39-0 to pass legislation (H.R. 4509) that would require off-campus hospital outpatient departments to obtain a separate unique health identifier and include it on all claims for services billed to commercial group health plans or their enrollees.
AHA podcast: Enhancing Care for Older Patients with Age-Friendly Health Systems
Sonja Rosen, M.D., chief of geriatrics at Cedars-Sinai, discusses the health system’s journey as an Age-Friendly Health System and its multidisciplinary approach to providing quality care for older patients in the midst of a workforce shortage.
AHA names 2023 Equity of Care Award winners
During the AHA Leadership Summit July 16-18 in Seattle, Meritus Health in Hagerstown, Md., Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., and Rapid City Hospital (Monument Health) in Rapid City, S.D., will receive 2023 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Awards for their outstanding efforts to advance diversity, inclusion and health equity.
Institute identifies 25 most dangerous software vulnerabilities
The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, recently announced this year’s Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses, which an attacker could use to control a system, steal data and prevent applications from working.
Congress urged to reauthorize, double National Health Service Corps funding
AHA July 12 joined 64 other organizations in urging Congress to quickly pass the Restoring America’s Health Care Workforce and Readiness Act, bipartisan legislation that would reauthorize the mandatory portion of the National Health Service Corps through fiscal year 2026 and double funding for its scholarships and loan repayment for health care workers who serve in federally designated shortage areas.