Search Results for "Barack Obama"

July 24, 2009
Following a tour Thursday of the Cleveland Clinic, President Barack Obama held up the organization as a model of how information technology can contribute to high quality, cost-effective care.
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January 08, 2009
All Americans will have electronic medical records in five years if Congress passes President-Elect Barack Obama's economic recovery plan, outlined in a Jan. 8 speech.
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January 09, 2009
The American Health Information Community, more recently known as AHIC Successor Inc. and colloquially as AHIC 2.0, will now be called the National eHealth Collaborative, or NeHC.
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January 21, 2009
Investing now in information technology and other tools needed to modernize the nation's healthcare system will pay dividends in lower costs and greater productivity in the future, said Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund.
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January 09, 2009
It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund.
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January 08, 2009
Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged Thursday that he would apply the lessons of the past to work toward healthcare reform.
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March 08, 2010
When U.S. President Barack Obama talks about creating more jobs for his citizenry he doesn't frequently mutter the letters “ICD” followed by the number “10,” but some experts in the thick of healthcare are starting to view the conversion as a way to employ more Americans.
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June 12, 2009
President Barack Obama on Thursday turned the spotlight on healthcare IT leaders Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City and Geisinger Health in rural Philadelphia.
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April 15, 2013
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has announced it will establish a new working group to support the recent White House cybersecurity executive order.
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April 11, 2013
The Obama administration is trying once again to convince Congress to provide more funding for the health law's insurance exchanges, which are set to begin enrollment this fall.
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April 09, 2013
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing April 9, beginning at 10 a.m., to consider President Barack Obama's nomination of Marilyn B. Tavenner for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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April 02, 2013
Dubbing it "the next great American project," President Barack Obama announced the launch of the BRAIN Initiative, aimed at unlocking the many mysteries of the brain. The $100 million "to get the project off the ground" comes from the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation, and is part of the budget the president will send to Congress next week.
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March 22, 2013
There's little question that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA, has demonstrable benefits already -- even if, as a Kaiser Poll found this week, Americans still don't understand them. What's less clear is how the ACA will fare long-term given today's tumultuous political environment.
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February 13, 2013
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama made the case "sudden, harsh, arbitrary" sequestration cuts would be bad for healthcare and the economy at large. But he signaled a willingness to listen to other ideas for reform.
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February 08, 2013
For the second time, President Barack Obama has nominated Marilyn Tavenner to be permanent administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She has been serving as acting administrator since December 2011, when Donald Berwick, MD, stepped down.
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January 23, 2013
Gov. Phil Bryant and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney have known each other for 30 years and call themselves friends. Now, though, a wedge has come between the two elected Republicans -- President Barack Obama's health law, the part of it that calls for crating an online health insurance marketplace.
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January 17, 2013
"In addition to being a law enforcement challenge, gun violence is also a serious public health issue that affects thousands of individuals, families and communities across the nation," President Barack Obama wrote in his memorandum to the Centers for Disease Control Jan. 16, when he charged the agency with conducting research into the matter.
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January 01, 2013
The continuing saga around the deadline delay for states to decide whether they'll establish their own health insurance exchanges doesn't change the final upshot: All states are anticipated to have an online insurance marketplace, one way or another. The delays may also make a federal/state partnership model for the exchange more palatable and a way out for unprepared states, at least in the initial years, according to an expert on state healthcare issues.
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December 17, 2012
President Barack Obama rejected the idea of delaying the implementation of a 2.3 percent medical device tax slated to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013 as part of the Affordable Care Act. The president said medical device companies would make up for the lost revenue because the ACA will bring more healthcare consumers into the marketplace.
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November 29, 2012
A new consumer survey of more than 1,200 voters conducted by PwC Health Research Institute (HRI) found that 69 percent want President Barack Obama to make reducing costs his top healthcare priority in his second term, but reducing spending on IT initiatives could be troublesome for the Administration.
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