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Thousands vie for CMS innovation grants
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has been inundated with applications for Health Care Innovation Challenge grants and as a result has delayed rewarding them, the agency announced
Obama allots up to $1B to create healthcare jobs
The Obama administration has announced a bold initiative to expand the number of healthcare jobs in the United States. A total of up to $1 billion has been pledged for grants to hire and train
AHA urges CMS for more grants to fund ACOs
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to offer additional grants to foster the development of accountable care organizations (ACOs),
Providers concerned about quality reporting in 'meaningful use'
The federal stimulus money for "meaningful use" of EHRs was supposed to be exactly that--a stimulus--to encourage health IT adoption and quality improvement. If some new survey numbers are to
HHS, NIH officials tout support for mobile health
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Describing his mission as one of "data liberación," HHS Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said he is expecting mobile technology developers to take up the Obama
FCC urged to reconsider narrowing of 'rural hospital' definition
Three entities serving healthcare or handling healthcare data are among the final 14 recipients of Department of Commerce stimulus funding to increase broadband access and adoption in underserved
Primary care to get a $320M booster shot from HHS
In an attempt to bring some relief to the seemingly endless primary-care shortage situation, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced this week that $320 million
HHS awards $20 million to support rural EHR adoption
HHS is hoping to help 1,655 critical-access and rural hospitals in 41 states and on several Indian reservations adopt EHRs with $20 million in new technical-assistance funding through the Regional
ARRA promotes 'domain-specific' computing at UCLA, while Best Buy joins with cardiac device maker on HIT effort
Though "meaningful use" may be the centerpiece, there's a lot more health IT in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act than just the Medicare and Medicaid incentives to adopt EMRs. For example,
Center for Technology and Aging awards $500,000 in home-monitoring grants
The Center for Technology and Aging, an Oakland, Calif.-based organization that seeks to improve the quality of home- and community-based care for seniors, has awarded $500,000 in grants to test
