American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

“How many economists does it take to change a light bulb? None. If the light bulb needed changing the market would have already done it.”-Any website with economic jokes. However, the method that the market is being measured is not the best or the only way to measure progress of a country. Page 200 of Naked Economics quotes, “Any measure of economic progress depends on how you define progress. GDP just adds up the numbers. There is something to be said for that.” I believe that the narrator is…

In December 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services published an interim final rule to certify EHRs to support the achievement of Meaningful Use (Thurston, 2014). “Meaningful Use” is defined as the utilization of a certified HER technology to improve healthcare…

The Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by Congress in 1996 in response to the infancy of health information technology and the modern flow of health information. The initial focus of the HIPAA was to protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families if they were to lose or change their jobs (Bowers, 2001) but, as technology continued to advance laws were also developed to protect patient information as it passed through a full spectrum of…

establishing, electronic health record (EHR) systems due to the mandated federal legislation known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. In summary, this twenty seven billion dollar piece of legislation was created as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Through incentivizing adoption of EHRs and setting of “Meaningful Use” standards, providers must show evidence of utilizing Health Information Technology (HIT) to improve…

and financial sustainability. II. Current Uses Initially developed in the 1980s, EHRs have come a long way and since then have been an increasing focus in the healthcare sector, as it was a focal point in President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment…

DESPITE HIPPA’S HITECH ACT, CYBERATTACKS CONTINUE TO RISE HIPPA’s HITECH Act and the Omnibus rule were enacted to prevent data breaches in healthcare; however, healthcare data breaches are on the rise. Since its enactment in 1996, several provisions have been incorporated into the original Health Information Profitability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), one of which is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH): In 2009, The U.S. Department of Health and…

closing part or all of those institutions; it has been a major contributing factor to the mental illness crisis.” (Deinstitutionalization). Due to moves like this, homelessness doesn’t decrease, it just increases. Approximately fifteen percent of Americans are chronically homeless. Being chronically homeless means that a disabled person will experience homelessness for a year or longer(Social Solution). Homeless mentally ill people are being kept homeless, which is a problem, but there is always…

Throughout American History our government has done their best to provide adequate health care coverage to all Americans. The focus of this paper is to explain the history Medicare, Medicaid and evaluate the role of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in healthcare and to provide insight on the socioeconomic drivers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a Division of Health and Human Services and previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration was established to…

healthcare in that community (Heath, M., Appan, R., & Gudigantala, N., 2017). The elevation of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care. The HIT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was employed in 2009—assigning over $19 billion to surge the use of EHRs by…

The government needs to control how the money circulates. So the economy can grow , and continue to flourish. We do not need a repeat of the Great Recession which started in 2007 and ended in 2009. The United States economy has made steady progress out of the recession. More slowly than expected. Not necessary labor and capital resources have been reduced. And unemployment has fallen to low levels. The inflation rate has moved very…