The FDA is requesting $4.03 billion, an increase of 23 percent over the agency’s current $3.28 billion budget, as part of President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2011 budget.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to create a reliable U.S. supply of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) without the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU) to overcome the isotope shortage.
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has filed a complaint against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in U.S. District Court, alleging that Sebelius, in her capacity as the HHS secretary, unlawfully adopted the payment rates for cardiology services in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) by using an invalid Physician Practice Information Survey (PPIS) in a manner that “threatens access to care for patients and…increases medical care costs.”
President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will administer nearly $600 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awards to support construction and health IT projects in community health centers around the U.S.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives managed to squeak out a healthcare reform victory (220-215) late Saturday evening, after ratifying the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that will prohibit abortion funding for both the public option and affordability credits.
Kaiser Permanente has received 22 grants worth more than $54 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
A recent survey found that Americans have mixed feelings on the “appropriate roles” for various healthcare interest groups in Washington, D.C.
Last night, President Barack Obama made his healthcare reform speech to Congress, adamantly expressing his determination to be the final U.S. president to take up this cause.
The 2010 proposed rule for Medicare payments in the physician fee schedule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in July poses serious threats to nuclear cardiology practices and the patients they serve, according to the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC). The comment period about the proposed CMS changes closes Aug. 31.
The adoption of EMRs is ramping up in the United States due to President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan, requiring EMR adoption by 2015, an August report from market research firm Millennium Research Group (MRG) showed. The report also found that hospitals and clinics are already focusing their attention on implementing EMR systems to capitalize on funding, and cardiology will be a large venue for IT adoption.
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The administration of President Barack Obama is requesting $911 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in its 2011 federal budget proposal, with an additional $110 million requested for continued health IT efforts.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society believes there is much more to applaud than criticize concerning the release of interim final rules on meaningful use and qualified EHRs from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). However, the American Hospital Association noted that while health IT holds “great promise in improving care, widespread efforts toward adoption will be hindered unless key provisions in these rules are addressed.”
Current efforts to collect and publicly report data on discharge planning are unlikely to yield large reductions in unnecessary readmissions, according to study authors in the Dec. 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The increased computerization of U.S. hospitals hasn't made them cheaper or more efficient, although it may modestly improve the quality of care for heart attacks, Harvard researchers reported in the Nov. 20 edition of the American Journal of Medicine.
Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 30 unveiled a revised healthcare reform proposal—H.R. 3692, the Affordable Health Care for America Act—which the Congressional Budget Office estimated carries an $894 billion price tag for the federal government.
The market for telemedicine devices and services will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, with mobile services companies taking a sizeable chunk of that business, according to a report from market research firm Pike & Fischer.
In a Wednesday visit to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Md., President Barack Obama announced $5 billion in grant awards under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to fund medical research in every state.
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) has released the results of a poll by Zogby International that suggests “Americans recognize the value of medical imaging as a critical component of high-quality healthcare.”
James Thrall, MD, chairman of the board of chancellors of the American College of Radiology (ACR), has sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging that he include medical malpractice reform in his efforts to change healthcare.
The National Governors Association's State Alliance for e-Health Tuesday issued a report, which is intended to give interim guidance to state leaders as they begin to implement the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
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Using an advanced massive-training artificial neural network, computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme, radiologists were able to improve their polyp detection rate and reduce the number of false positives in CT colonography, based on a study presented at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference in Chicago.
Organizations should act prior to the implementation of the new (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) HIPAA compliance guideline changes for 2010 and consistently monitor their facilities in order to make an easier transition and avoid the extended penalties that are now being proposed, said HIPAA privacy and security consult Grant Peterson during a Jan. 13 Webinar on the guidelines.