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Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. HCA Healthcare Uses Its COVID-19 Registry by Forming Consortium With AHRQ and Research Institutions to Accelerate COVID-19 Research January 26, 2021 GMT NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 26, 2021-- HCA Healthcare (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced that it has formed a consortium of prominent public and private research institutions to use HCA Healthcare’s vast data on COVID-19 hospital care to improve patient outcomes and public knowledge. The insti...

Dive Brief: Members of an influential congressional advisory committee on Medicare are torn on how best to regulate telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency, hinting at the difficulty Washington faces as it looks to impose guardrails on virtual care without restricting its use after the pandemic ends. During a Thursday virtual meeting, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission expressed its support of telehealth broadly, but many members noted snowballing use of the new modality could create more fraud and abuse in the system down the line. Key questions of how much Medicare reimb...

Don't miss these interviews with notable executives on how they led their healthcare organizations through the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic challenged hospitals and health systems with unprecedented patient surges, a critically limited national PPE supply, national workforce shortages, and safety concerns for staff and patients. The pandemic also brought forth the opportunity to innovate, introduced new creative strategies, and built upon reliable operational approaches already in place. HealthLeaders spoke with numerous healthcare executives about the strategies they implemented ...

Senior VP: 'We are as front-line as you can be' Health care workers at Meharry Medical College were initially left off the list to receive a state allotment of Pfizer vaccines, school officials say, despite their front-line status providing medical services to the city’s underserved populations.  Meharry Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement Patrick Johnson said the Tennessee Department of Health failed to offer Meharry clinics doses of the vaccine at first. But officials with the historically black medical school have reached out to their state contacts and doses will soon b...