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AHA released its 2020 Environmental Scan which offers an overview of the trends, statistics and economic forecasts likely to affect patients and providers at every level of care.

The World Health Organization said it will not declare a public health emergency of international concern at this time in regards to the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which has infected hundreds and killed at least 17 people.

The FDA alerted health care providers to cybersecurity vulnerabilities in certain GE Healthcare clinical information central stations and telemetry servers that may allow an attacker to remotely take control of these medical devices and silence, generate and interfere with alarms for connected patient monitors.

Cardinal Health has created a webpage to keep customers informed about its Jan. 21 recall of certain surgical gowns because it could not assure their sterility.

The AHA and five other national hospital groups today filed a friend-of-the court brief <

During its Rural Health Care Leadership Conference Feb. 2-5 in Phoenix, the AHA will present its 2019 Rural Hospital Leadership Award to Cody (Wyo.) Regional Health.

Raymond Waller, director/administrator at Ascension Brighton (Mich.) Center for Recovery, will chair the AHA's Behavioral Health Council in 2020, and Robert Trestman, M.D., chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va., will serve as chair-elect.

World Health Organization officials met in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the coronavirus – originally found in Wuhan, China – which has killed 17 people.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a decision to cover acupuncture for Medicare patients with chronic low back pain.

More than 15% of adults in every U.S. state and territory are physically inactive, ranging from 17.3% in Colorado to 47.7% in Puerto Rico, according to state maps released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.