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Report: Much work still needed to achieve widespread use of computerized patient records

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Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT Bipartisan Policy, Center Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT, January 2012

  • “Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health care’s triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for patients and families, and reduce the cost of care. Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based. Greater use of health IT enjoys bipartisan support. The authorization of up to $30 billion to support health IT under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 has spurred significant private sector investment to further increase the use of health IT. Most of these funds are for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, known informally as “Meaningful Use,” that reward clinicians and hospitals when they use EHRs in specific meaningful ways to improve care. Studying the common attributes of the nation’s highest performing health care organizations can help shape public policy and investment decisions regarding health IT.”

    • Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance

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    “DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is a technical specification created by a group of organizations that want to help reduce the potential for email-based abuse by solving a couple of long-standing operational, deployment, and reporting issues related to email authentication protocols. DMARC standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using… Continue Reading

    CFA Releases Study on Economic Harm to LMI Households From Over Price Auto Insurance

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    “A study, Lower-Income Households and the Auto Insurance Marketplace: Challenges and Opportunities, released today by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) concludes that the auto insurance marketplace denies important economic opportunities, especially those related to employment, to low- and moderate-income (LMI) households. The study also explains how state insurance regulators could ensure that mandated auto… Continue Reading

    Post JFK Assassination Air Force One Flight Deck Recording

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    News release: “The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is providing public access to the newly discovered audio tape recording of conversations between various individuals in Washington and Air Force One pilots and officials on board during the flight from Dallas to Andrews Air Force Base following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on… Continue Reading

    CBO – Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector Employees

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    Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector Employees, January 30, 2012 “Employees of the federal government and the private sector differ in ways that can affect compensation. Federal workers tend to be older, more educated, and more concentrated in professional occupations than private-sector workers. CBO’s study compares federal civilian employees and private-sector employees with certain… Continue Reading

    Census – Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll Summary Report: 2010

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    Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll Summary Report: 2010 – “This report presents data on state and local government public employment and payroll based on information collected in the 2010 Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll for the month of March and historical data collected by prior surveys and censuses of government units.… Continue Reading

    BLS: Tracking Employment-Based Health Benefits in Changing Times

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    “Most Americans obtain their health care coverage through an employment-related plan. The National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides measures of access, participation, and features for those plans This article discusses some of the issues that the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will present for the NCS. Health care in the United States… Continue Reading

    National Strategy Proposed to Respond to Climate Change’s Impacts on Fish, Wildlife, Plants

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    “The National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy is an integrated, coordinated, and comprehensive response to the threats of climate change. This multi-partner effort will outline a unified approach to maintaining the key terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems needed to sustain fish, wildlife and plant resources and the services they provide in the face… Continue Reading

    Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

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    “The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program was created in 1991 as a set of support activities assisting the Former Soviet Union states in securing and eliminating strategic nuclear weapons and the materials used to create them. The Program evolved as needs and opportunities changed: Efforts to address biological and chemical threats were added, as was… Continue Reading

    EIA – State Electricity Profiles 2010

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    State Electricity Profiles 2010, January 2012 “The State Electricity Profiles presents a summary of key State statistics for 2000, and 2004 through 2010. The tables present summary statistics; ten largest plants by generating capacity; top five entities ranked by retail sales; electric power industry generating capacity by primary energy source; electric power industry generation of… Continue Reading