Economic Stimulus Package news and information

You might think that as a career matures, things would slow a little and afford some opportunities for activities that are not directly connected to work. Sadly, this is not the case.
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There is some good news on the healthcare data-breach front.
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Health information technology adoption by the healthcare industry and its promotion by the federal government will continue apace with the political status quo largely intact after last week's election.
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One sure indicator that the political status quo in Washington—a divided Congress and four more years of continuity in the executive branch—will be maintained came this morning when the Health IT Policy Committee met to discuss the future course of the federal electronic health-record...
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More than 300,000 physicians and other eligible professionals have signed up to participate in the federal electronic health-record system incentive payment programs, while more than 4,000 hospitals have enrolled, according to the latest CMS data.
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Total Medicaid spending grew 2% on average across all states in fiscal 2012, the lowest rate of growth since 2006 and down from the 9.7% growth rate in fiscal 2011.
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The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department will lend more than moral support to a federal effort to boost the meaningful use of health information technology by submitting its venerable VistA electronic health-record system for testing and certification for use in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive...
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Total Medicaid spending grew 2% on average across all states in fiscal 2012, the lowest rate of growth since 2006 and down from the 9.7% rate of growth in fiscal 2011, according to the 12th annual 50-state Medicaid budget survey conducted on behalf of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the...
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How can one respond to the news of four more Republicans writing another letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about the federal electronic health-record incentive payment program other than to invoke Ronald Reagan?
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The digital divide between large and urban hospitals and their smaller and more-rural counterparts may be closing, based on an analysis of a federal database of electronic health-record systems and the EHR vendors supplying products for hospitals participating in the Medicare EHR incentive payment...
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