Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai proposed to begin a rulemaking to establish 988 as a new, nationwide, three-digit phone number for a suicide prevention and mental health hotline. The Commission will vote on this proposal at its December 12 public meeting.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health will partner with West Health—a family of nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations dedicated to lowering health care costs to enable seniors to successfully age in place—in a $4.5 million research collaboration to create an innovative “Geriatric Emergency Department”.
Excellence in health reporting was celebrated at the first annual Power Press Awards held at HLTH, the mega-meeting where leaders from throughout the health ecosystem gather to share innovation, outline challenges and set a course how innovation can make its greatest impact on care.
SPH Analytics announced today that 119 healthcare provider organizations have earned its annual National APEX Quality Award.
The AMA Women Physicians Section and the AMA Foundation announced the winners of the 2019 Joan F. Giambalvo Fund for the Advancement of Women research grants program.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced nearly $107 million in Quality Improvement Awards to 1,273 health centers across nearly all U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia.
For the first time in a decade, CMS launched a modernized and redesigned Medicare Plan Finder. The Medicare Plan Finder, the most used tool on Medicare.gov, allows users to shop and compare Medicare Advantage and Part D plans.
Georgia ranks near the bottom of all 50 states for the number of primary care providers. Recent data from America’s Health Rankings, 2018 Annual Report, places Georgia at 42nd for the number of primary care doctors per capita, 43rd in its supply of registered nurses and 48th in advanced practice nursing care.
Chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT executives made on average a base salary of $235,806 in 2018, according to a survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members.
Kaufman Hall announced a collaborative initiative with Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) to uncover healthcare’s most pressing challenges in the pursuit of developing more sustainable performance improvement and cost transformation strategies.
CynergisTek, Inc. a leader in healthcare cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance, announced its support for two innovative programs that provide cybersecurity education and training to help groom a future workforce of cybersecurity professionals.
Cedars-Sinai has become a founding sponsor of Bioscience Los Angeles County, a new organization established to advance the pace of scientific innovation…
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