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• John Krieger In The Public Interest A Jobs Bill That Builds More Jobs Not More Highways

  
  Euronews 24 | Latest News — Authority: 183
  As everyone knows, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.Yet the transportation spending in Congresss latest jobs bill looks insanely identical to the spending that went out the door almost a year ago in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...
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• New Report Reveals Missed Opportunity to Create Jobs

  
  Center for Neighborhood Technology — Authority: 415
  A new analysis by CNT, Smart Growth America , and U.S. PIRG shows that in the first ten months of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), investments in public transportation have created twice as many jobs per dollar as investments in highways. The new report shows that by mimicking funding levels for ...
  13 hours ago

• Report Finds House Jobs Bill Misses Opportunity to Create Most Jobs

  
  Center for Neighborhood Technology — Authority: 415
  Lessons Learned from Recovery Act Show Superior Job Creation from Spending on Public Transportation WASHINGTON, D.C.— A new analysis by the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Smart Growth America, and U.S. PIRG shows that in the first ten months of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), investments ...
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• My favorite photographs of 2009, part four

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 573
  I made a minor name for myself last year by blowing the whistle on signs such as the one on the right. Its nothing more than a tax-payer funded billboard touting Barack Obamas $787 billion economic stimulus program. Why this photograph made my list is because the sign was located inside Yosemite National Park. Could ...
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• Governor Granholm signs education reform legislation; State readying application for Race to the Top funds

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 148
  LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm Monday (January 4th) signed a five-bill legislative package that reforms Michigan’s education system and allows the state to compete for up to $400 million in federal Recovery Act funds through President Obama’s Race to the Top initiative.  The state is finalizing its ...
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• Simple Interop: Issues Associated with Automatic Processing

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 466
  In Simple Interop: Use Cases we have made a somewhat unorthodox proposition, to support mixed communication between people and automatic computer processing programs. We have done so because of the issues raised in Rant on Heath Information Technology Asynchrony . This proposition entails solving some issues. For ...
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• Simple Interop: The Payload

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 466
  In Simple Interop: Use Cases we set the challenge of communicating among people and Health IT systems in a manner that does not create a “walled community” where all those that practice with EHRs and HIEs have no ability to use the Internet to communicate with those that don’t. The biggest challenge in such a ...
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• Simple Interop: Use Cases

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 466
  This post zeroes in on exactly why the simple interop approach is important. It does so by listing a number of use cases. They illustrate the issues of getting to interoperability while an industry is in transition – and are industries ever not in transition? We are mindful of the specific kinds of ...
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• Research group concerned new HIPAA regs could hinder clinical trials

  
  News — Authority: 126
  The new HIPAA privacy and security regulations set to take effect next month may hinder clinical trials as researchers adapt to tighter restrictions on the use of patient data, the head of a key industry association says. The rules, as called for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, "go well beyond ...
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• Part One: Stage One Meaningful Use Winners

  
  Chilmark Research — Authority: 466
  As required by legislation in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), HHS/CMS released rules for the meaningful use of certified EHRs before the end of 2009 (late the afternoon of Dec. 30 th ).  Others have already written plenty on what is actually stated in these rules, therefore, let’s take a look at ...
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• The Reason We Will Continue ...

  
  AMERICA'S BEST CHOICE — Authority: 126
  2009 is over! 2010 is here! Time to save this young damsel in distress, and all of our other grandchildren and great grandchildren! Make copies of the photo; carry them in your billfolds. Give them to friends. Time for "Real Change" in 2010! [ ARRA News Service ]
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• Video: Epic Failure of the Year – Obama and the Democrats on JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 588
  Naked Emporer News highlighted some of the democrats biggest whoppers of 2009 when it comes to stimulus and jobs. What a disaster, and they’re only making things worse. Someone’s going to have to pay it all back! Did I hear Rep. Polis say “ginormously?”
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• 692 Pages of Government Meaningful Use Regulation

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 432
  As I’ve suggested in my previous posts, I’m planning to do some future blog post analysis of the Meaningful Use Interim Final Rule that was recently released by ONC. However, I can’t help but comment on the amount of legalese (is that even a word) that surrounds these types of regulations. The meaningful use ...
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• RANT on Heath Information Technology Asynchrony

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 466
  There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?” (From ...
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• The Reason We Will Continue ...

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 542
  2009 is over! 2010 is here! Time to save this young damsel in distress, and all of our other grandchildren and great grandchildren! Make copies of the photo; carry them in your billfolds. Give them to friends. Time for "Real Change" in 2010! [ ARRA News Service ]
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• Recovery.gov whistleblower poster misses key details

  
  Whistleblower Protection Blog — Authority: 126
  The federal government has released a new poster that employers have to post to their employees if they are receiving stimulus money. The new poster, however, is missing a few key details whistleblowers should know. For example, if a whistleblower wants to know where to file a complaint, the governments poster will ...
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• Simple Interop: the PHR

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 466
  This post seeks not to define the full scope of interactions of a PHR but simply to define a simple connection between PHRs and other health IT systems. We make two claims for this approach. (1) it greatly simplifies the roll-out of connections between PHRs and other healthcare IT systems, thus accelerating the ...
  5 days ago

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/31/2009+

  
  OakLeaf Systems — Authority: 427
  Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure ...
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• Blue Moon Round Up

  
  The O Word — Authority: 114
  I know, it has been a while, hasn’t it? To refresh your memories, I will be publishing and updating as I go along, so come back and check for when it’s finished. All of these bloggers are ones that I read daily at least weekly as often as I can; they are all worth your time to at least go visit and read the ...
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• Meaningful Use Rules Hit the Streets

  
  Chilmark Research — Authority: 466
  Late yesterday afternoon, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) who holds the big bucket of ARRA incentive funds for EHR adoption, released two major documents for public review and comment that will basically define healthcare IT for the next decade. The first document, at 136 pgs, titled: Health ...
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