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Healthcare companies are projected to spend about $56 billion on information technology (IT) this year, only a slight increase over the $55 billion spent in 2003, according to Andrew Bartels, a vice president with Forrester Research.
As part of the Connecting Communities for Better Health Program, the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has given more than $2 million in grants to assist nine community-based efforts to increase electronic health information exchanges.
Congressional and industry leaders took turns at the recent National Health Information Infrastructure conference endorsing the HHS strategic health information technology (IT) plan and urging the department to press ahead with its effort to modernize the nation’s healthcare system.
The HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking a contractor to build and manage a new Health Information Technology Resource Center (HITRC).
With the introduction of a strategic action plan, the HHS effort to increase the use of information technology in the nation's healthcare system arrived at a milestone.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has denied a request by an advocacy group to break patents on Abbott Laboratories’ AIDS drug Norvir (ritonavir) and authorize generic competition.
Reforms proposed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intended to head off employee conflicts of interest in performing outside consulting work do not go far enough to remedy the problem, according to a report by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE).
Estimates for Medicare outlays for the five-year period 2005 through 2009 were increased by $67 billion, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said in its midsession review of the 2005 budget.
The FDA plans to implement a series of recommendations during the next half year on best management practices relating to the agency’s drug review process.
Proposed regulations implementing the prescription drug savings available through the Medicare discount drug card were announced by HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson last week.