Gregory (Greg) Angle oversees 11 hospitals as the president of HCA Mountain Division in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. The former chairman of the Utah Hospital Association, Greg Angle is an active member of the American Hospital Association (AHA).
The AHA advocates for legislation that improves the delivery of health care and supports medical providers in effectively dispensing care. For this reason, the AHA welcomes the introduction to the Senate of the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization (NWR) Act of 2019. Title VIII, first signed into law in 1964, was developed to ensure that an adequate number of nurses were being educated and trained to meet the nation’s healthcare needs. The latest expansion to the NWR Act, which was introduced with bipartisan support, allocates government funds to professional development programs, loan forgiveness programs, scholarships, and nursing education programs specifically designed for professionals working in medical facilities in rural and underserved areas. The act also increases the types of nursing programs and clinics that qualify for federal funds.
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A graduate of Arizona State University with a master’s degree in health services administration, Gregory “Greg” Angle serves as the president of HCA’s Mountains Division, a system of hospitals and clinics in Idaho, Utah, and Alaska. Additionally, Greg Angle is a longtime member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), a professional organization devoted to equipping health care leaders with the tools and knowledge they need to lead thriving facilities committed to patient health.
ACHE recently tackled the topic of a universal data system among hospitals nationwide and the efforts that government agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are taking to help make it a reality. The NIH has developed a Strategic Plan for Data Science that has the goal of creating a standardized system of handling all aspects of the raw data gathered in the process of biomedical research, which will add more overall usefulness and value to the data. One of the major hurdles in the plan will be developing a common methodology as experts agree that health care data from one institution to another can differ in much the same way that language differs from one county to another. There are also infrastructure challenges. There’s no universal computer system used among hospitals, so integrating a universal medical data storage/access solution across multiple IT platforms is a formidable challenge. So while there are enormous potential benefits to a national data system, getting there will still take some time. |
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