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Government and external affairs - government and external affairs advocates at the state and federal levels of government on behalf of iowa's hospitals. The department advocates on a wide variety of issues, including medicare and medicaid legislative and regulatory policy, payer administrative burden, policies impacting access to care, data and security issues, and healthcare workforce.

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Information center - the IHA information center serves the information needs of hospitals and health systems, health care organizations and the public. These services include hospital inpatient and outpatient discharge data, data analysis and collection software, pricepoint disclosing hospital charges, hospital economic impact and community benefit studies, utilization and financial data, salary survey and personnel information and quality data services.

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IHA provides educational programs for its members. The programs provide learning on health care policy and regulatory issues, quality, finance, leadership development and training specific to the roles and responsibilites of various hospital department leaders.