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CDC director talks hospitals’ role in safeguarding nation from next pandemic

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen, M.D., April 16 shared with attendees of AHA’s 2024 Annual Membership Meeting how her team is preparing the nation for the next public health emergency, highlighting how hospitals’ ability to provide the CDC with timely data is already positioning the nation for future success.

Unequal Transparency: How Hospitals Report More Data than Any Other Entity in the Health Care Sector

Imagine if the government required health insurance and drug companies to account for every dollar they spent, audit those data, and publicly report those numbers. The pushback would be tremendous, yet that is the reality for hospitals and health systems operating in the U.S.

Energy to Care Dashboard

ASHE’s Energy to Care Dashboard Tool offers an at-a-glance view of health care facilities' energy use. Designed to reduce user burden, the Energy to Care dashboard is easy to use.

CDC releases updated strategy to detect and monitor public health threats

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention April 11 updated its strategy to improve data exchange with health care organizations and other public health authorities to better detect and monitor public health threats.

AHA Healthcare IT Database

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This annual survey conducted in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) gathers data that informs policymakers, providers, researches and vendors on health IT adoption, tools and trends.
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Disruption & Health Care

H&HN Magazine articles on disruption in the health care field.

Critical infrastructure leaders urged to secure networks from Volt Typhoon threat

U.S. and international cybersecurity authorities this week released additional guidance to help health care and other critical infrastructure leaders defend their networks from Volt Typhoon, a People’s Republic of China state-sponsored group that has been pre-positioning itself on U.S. networks to disrupt critical services in the event of increased geopolitical tensions or conflict with the U.S. and its allies. 
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Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2024

There are 6,120 hospitals in the United States. The American Hospital Association conducts an annual survey of hospitals in the United States. The data here, published in 2024, are a sample from the 2022 AHA Annual Survey (FY 2022) and offer quick answers on number of hospitals, government hospitals, hospitals in each state, hospital beds, icu beds, admissions, and expenses in the U.S. You can also see how many beds specific hospitals have though the map of community hospitals in the U.S.

AHA Data - Homepage

Data & Insights
With over 1,000 data points provided by more than 6,200 hospitals and 400 health care systems, AHA Data provides the tools hospital and health systems need to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving environment.

Academics and Researchers

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With more than 30 years of comprehensive data, academic and government institutions worldwide consider AHA Data a go-to data resource for reliable, historic hospital data.