American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

" Abstract " Barack Hussein Obama is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president, as well as the first born outside the contiguous United States. He was born on August 4 in 1961 in Honolulu, He grew up mostly in Hawaii, but also spent one year of his childhood in Washington State and four years in Indonesia. After graduating from University , he worked as a community organizer in…

Eighties to Present The Great Society programs continued to impact the lives of many Americans throughout the seventies and even up to present times. The eighties brought about a changes in politics and attitude toward ending poverty. There was a strong backlash to the liberal reforms that accompanied the Great Society and conservatism began to gain traction across the country and Ronald Regan was elected president. According to Walsh, more than 33 million more people became poorer…

United States. That is why the United States is actively promoting the use of electric cars with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that provides tax breaks and credits for purchasing electric vehicles. Though, the electric vehicles will be much more expensive and will require a charging infrastructure to be added which will be very expensive and larger batteries aren’t under the act described above…

Through teleconferencing the nurse can compete all steps of the nursing process as if they had been there in person. The promotion and use of telenursing can be beneficial to hospitals and other healthcare organizations because “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides billions of dollars in stimulus funding for research, operations, and grants in the telemedicine, telehealth and informatics sector. (Hebda & Czar,…

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides children with disabilities an education suitable for their age as well as their individual needs. (“Individuals with Disabilities,” n.d.). Although IDEA provides academic support for children with special needs, additionally IDEA incidentally provides support for those children socially. IDEA is crucial in all areas of development for a child with special needs. Preliminary to IDEA there was no existing policy addressing students…

The shift to the health information management system (HMIS) can be considered as one of the major components to streamline the process of providing improved quality healthcare and shrink costs. According to Zeng, Reynolds, and Sharp (2009), "health information technology (HIT) is the basis for a more patient-centered and evidence-based medicine with the real-time availability of high-quality information" (para.2). This makes the implementation of health information management systems…

A Superfund site is defined as any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified these sites as candidates for cleanup because they poses a risk to human health or the environment. Once a site is selected as a candidate, they are placed on a list called the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is used to prioritize the release or threatened releases of hazardous wastes in the United States. The EPA uses…

Many economists became so habitual to low unemployment and mellow growth that they started to become almost absent of awareness (Benati). The Great Recession started in December of 2007 and ended in June 2009. Lets not forget recessions only exist when a country experiences two or more quarters of contraction in their economy. Within the fourth quarter of 2007 the GDP started to shrink which caused the country to head in the direction of the Great Recession…

The “Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act” is one of the parts of ARRA (CDC, 2012). The HITECH Act supports the Meaningful Use Program’s idea of EHR incentives. The certification criteria for EHR which focus on how the EHR must work defined by the “Office of the Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) (CDC…

The first one is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). This federal legislation defines what health information must be protected and stipulates what must be done to protect patients’ privacy and security. It is applied to all apply to all healthcare providers, health plans and healthcare…