Agencies release fact sheet on potential of malicious activity by Iranian cyber actors
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center and the National Security Agency yesterday released a fact sheet on...
CMS expands tribal health care access by approving Medicaid state plan amendments: South Dakota...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 13Â announced it approved state plan amendments (SPA) to expand Medicaid access to care for tribal communities...
CMS announces 13th Scope of Work Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization awards
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently launched the 13th Scope of Work to support healthcare quality improvement and the Secretary's Make...
Analysis: Rural hospitals at risk due to cuts in OBBA
Data from the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that health care...
CMS requests comments on MA service level data collection for initial determinations, appeals
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) May 30 released a notice requesting comments on a proposed Medicare Advantage (MA) service level data...
FDA issues recall on tubes used to manage bleeding
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a Class I recall—the most serious type—of specific lots of BD esophagogastric balloon tamponade tubes,...
Agencies release new guidance on AI data security
On May 22, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and international partners released new guidance to help organizations...
CDC investigating reports of contaminated ultrasound gel
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is assisting in a multistate investigation on the use of contaminated non-sterile ultrasound gel for ultrasound-guided percutaneous procedures. Reports...
ASPR highlights strategies to mitigate workplace violence in health care settings
The Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector Advisory Bulletin, produced by the within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Strategic Preparedness...
FDA to limit COVID-19 vaccine to people over 65, others at high risk for...
Leaders of the Food and Drug Administration May 20 announced new guidelines for administering the COVID-19 vaccine in a paper published by the New England Journal...
