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While Congress focuses on the budget impasse, there's also acknowledgement that healthcare IT will play a key role in improving our healthcare system, according to CHIME's president and CEO.
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Three government agencies responsible for ensuring food and drug safety and curbing disease have recalled furloughed workers to investigate recent outbreaks, including a cluster of salmonella cases tied to tainted chicken and an outbreak of nonviral hepatitis in Hawaii linked to a dietary...
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A decision by the Obama administration to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse for insurance plans appears to have led to glitches that have frustrated customers.
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The Texas Health Services Authority and the Health Information Trust Alliance are partnering to develop and implement a program that will improve the security of health information for Texas residents.
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The first cracks are appearing in the Tea Party’s push to dismantle the nation’s health law as three House lawmakers with ties to the movement said they’d back a U.S. spending bill that doesn’t center on Obamacare.
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A bipartisan House measure to repeal the 2.3% medical device excise tax that helps fund the healthcare reform law has been floated as compromise to end the federal government shutdown.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Oct. 1 that will expand the ability of pharmacists to serve patients and collaborate with other healthcare providers, resulting in greater access to care and improved quality and efficiency, according to a news release.
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More than 700,000 federal workers will be looking for ways to put food on the table as much of the federal government shut down Tuesday over budget squabbles in Congress. But if you're a federal rat, it's still fat city. Federal mice, too.
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The U.S. government was on the brink of a partial shutdown Monday after the Democratic-led Senate refused to back down in a clash with the Republican-led House over President Barack Obama's landmark health law.
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Defying Senate Democrats and critics in their own party, House Republicans pushed through a short-term spending bill early Sunday that increases the likelihood of a government shutdown by requiring a one-year delay in implementing and funding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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