In 2009, when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was promulgated, the need of the hour was to put the ailing US economy back on the path to recovery. The purpose of The Recovery Act was to immediately create and save jobs, and to provide temporary relief to the sectors most impacted by the Read more…
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The philosophy of Healthcare IT: How it will grow?
Healthcare Information Technology has seen rapid growth over the past few years. At the forefront of this massive change is President Obama’s initiative known as Obamacare. One of the key features of Obamacare is the push towards registering uninsured patients, which form a major part of US population. Let’s look into some of the aspects Read more…
Should healthcare be free of cost?
Medical ethics, a set of moral principles that govern the practice of medicine, imply that a medical practitioner needs to display consideration, compassion, and benevolence to their patients. This is a complex concept. Compassion arises from humanitarian sensitivity, and that would essentially dictate that if I am unable to cover the expenditure associated with my Read more…
Community Health Centers: Making a difference
Community Health Center (CHC) model is one of the premier beneficiaries of federal grants for primary care in the United States. Uninsured patients are a major part of the overall population. In 2013, United States Department of Health and Human Services allocated $150 million in financial support to CHCs for providing enrollment assistance to uninsured Read more…
Survey finds Obamacare will impact physician career time lines
A recent study has found that nearly half of US physicians think Obamacare will impact their career time lines in one way or the other as they will have to re-evaluate their length of stay in practice. The study, undertaken by Jackson & Coker, a physician staffing firm, surveyed over 3,000 practicing physicians from a Read more…