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Next step in updating the Women’s Preventive Services Guidelines
Next step in updating the Women’s Preventive Services GuidelinesMarch 1, 2016By: Jim Macrae, Acting Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)The updated Women’s Preventive...
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Making Health Care Safer
Making Health Care Safer: Protect Patients from Antibiotic ResistanceMarch 3, 2016By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)CDC is calling on doctors, nurses, health care facility...
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Getting Care Where I’m Most Comfortable—at Home
Getting Care Where I’m Most Comfortable—at HomeMarch 11, 2016By: Arnold Goldberger, Washington, D.C.MedStar Washington Hospital Center has two House Call teams that include physicians, nurse...
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How HIPAA Applies to Certain Workplace Wellness Programs
How HIPAA Applies to Certain Workplace Wellness ProgramsMarch 14, 2016By: Jocelyn Samuels, Director, Office for Civil RightsHIPAA applies to certain workplace wellness programs. Learn about a few...
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The Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force
The Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task ForceMarch 16, 2016By: Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., RN, HHS Acting Deputy SecretaryThe members of this Task Force are leaders in government and private...
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ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Finding Hope and Security
ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Finding Hope and SecurityMarch 16, 2016By: Rona Radcliffe, San Antonio, TexasNow, I don’t have to worry about being able to afford my blood pressure medicine or the care I need...
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Moving Forward Through Medicaid Expansion
ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Moving Forward Through Medicaid ExpansionMarch 18, 2016By: Ryan Weeks, Baltimore, MarylandToday, I have no monthly premium and I pay $1 for generic medications and $2 for brand...
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ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Helping Others Get Covered
ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Helping Others Get CoveredMarch 18, 2016By: Nora Cadena, Austin, TexasThe major role that CACs, navigators and other assisters can play is to help people understand, use and...
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ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: No Caps on Jax’s Care
ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: No Caps on Jax’s CareMarch 21, 2016By: Robyn Martin, Waldorf, MarylandWithout the Affordable Care Act, Jax would have hit the plan’s lifetime limits on his coverage.Posted In:...
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Making Health Care Work Better for Everyone
Delivery System Reform: Making Health Care Work Better for EveryoneMarch 22, 2016By: U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesThe Affordable Care Act gives us the tools to build a health care system...
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ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Pre-existing Conditions Won’t Stop Avey
ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Pre-existing Conditions Won’t Stop AveyMarch 23, 2016By: Alycia Steinberg, Towson, MarylandThe Affordable Care Act has given us tremendous peace of mind knowing that Avey will...
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ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Finding Coverage and Peace of Mind
ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Finding Coverage and Peace of MindMarch 24, 2016By: Kevin Rose, Indianapolis, IndianaI’m one of the 20 million Americans who have gained coverage because of the Affordable Care...
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Getting Covered Allowed Her to Branch Out
ACA’s Sixth Anniversary: Getting Covered Allowed Her to Branch OutMarch 25, 2016By: Jessica Pinsky, Cleveland, OhioI’m one of the 20 million Americans who have gained coverage because of the Affordable...
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Addressing LGBT Health Disparities Across the Board
LGBT Health Awareness Week – Addressing LGBT Health Disparities Across the BoardMarch 28, 2016By: Karen DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., Acting Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) and National...
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The Anniversary of a Significant, Bipartisan Achievement
Celebrating the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act’s First BirthdayApril 15, 2016By: Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Jim Macrae, Jim...
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Paying for What Works
Paying for What WorksApril 27, 2016By: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, HHS SecretaryWe’re giving doctors more freedom to care for patients the way they were trained, the way that makes the most sense to them...
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Health Datapalooza 2016: A Focus on Value. A Focus on Consumers.
Health Datapalooza 2016: A Focus on Value. A Focus on Consumers.May 2, 2016By: HHS IDEA LabHealth Datapalooza offers opportunities to reach out and talk to the decision makers, the developers, the...
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Taking Care of Your Health—and Your Baby’s
Taking Care of Your Health—and Your Baby’sMay 6, 2016By: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, HHS SecretaryThis Mother’s Day, we’re highlighting some of the tools that help women like me take care of our children...
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Next Generation Nursing in Next Generation Health Care
Next Generation Nursing in Next Generation Health CareMay 12, 2016By: Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., RN, HHS Acting Deputy Secretary and Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, American Nurses...
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Health Datapalooza: New Vistas
Health Datapalooza: New VistasMay 20, 2016By: Susannah Fox, Chief Technology Officer of HHSThe Health Datapalooza was an extraordinary opportunity to meet stakeholders from across the health care...
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