ERS Releases Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America
Thursday, Feb. 17 - The Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America is a mapping application that provides a spatial interpretation of county-level, economic and social conditions along four broad categories of socioeconomic factors: people (using newly released demographic data from the American Community Survey, including age, race and ethnicity, migration and immigration, education, household size and family composition), jobs (using economic data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources, including information on employment trends, unemployment, industrial composition, and household income), agriculture (using indicators from the 2007 Census of Agriculture, including number and size of farms, operator characteristics, off-farm income, and government payments), and county classifications (using typologies such as the rural-urban continuum, economic dependence, persistent poverty, population loss, and other ERS county codes). Maps are interactive and also provided for download; raw data are provided for download.
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Report sees fastest growth at home, as telemed swells to $23B by 2015
Feb. 18, 2011 (Telemedicine and e-Health News Alert) - A report released this week projects growth well into double digits for telemedicine through 2015. MarketResearch.com says the global telemedicine market will more than double over five years, from $9.8 billion in 2010 to $23 billion in 2015.
More interestingly, “Telemedicine: Opportunities for Medical and Electronic Providers” projects even sharper growth by 2015 in the market for telemedicine carried out at home, versus in hospitals. Home telemed is foreseen to grow from $2.9 billion in 2010 to $7.9 billion in 2015. As a result, the report adds, the share of telemedicine carried out at home will climb from 28.5% to 35%, with the remainder taking place in hospitals and clinics.
“The technology is there. It’s been there for some time,” for telemedicine, from wearable sensors to apps designed for the iPhone and other smartphones, Robert Rosenberg, president of Insight Research Corp. in Mountain Lakes, N.J., tells the News Alert.
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Blogs about Protecting and Strengthening Women's Health through the ACA
Feb. 18, 2011 (The Huffington Post)
Most people don't know that the Affordable Care Act is the strongest women's health law since Medicare. If you look around the country you can see millions of American women getting more freedom in their health care choices.
It's about time.
Despite all the progress women have made in the workplace, when President Obama took office less than half of us had the option of getting health insurance through our employer. That meant that many of us had to look for coverage in the individual market where the insurance companies had most of the power. If you had a breast cancer diagnosis, they could deny your application. Sometimes, they could even deny you coverage if you had been a victim of domestic violence. If your child had diabetes, they could deny him or her coverage, too.
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Announcement of Permanent Certification Program: ONC-AA and NVLAP (HIT LAP)
Requests for ONC-Approved Accreditor (ONC-AA) Status
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has published a notice in the Federal Register stating that ONC will accept requests for ONC-AA status from February 8 through March 10, 2011. There is no required “application form” for submitting requests for ONC-AA status, but those organizations requesting ONC-AA status are expected to comply with the requirements of 45 CFR 170.503(b). ONC will accept requests by email and regular or express mail. For further instructions on submitting a request for ONC-AA status, please review the notice published in the Federal Register (76 FR 6794).
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AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange Focuses on Personal Health Records
Feb. 18, 2011 (AHRQ Electronic Newsletter, Issue #307)
In this week’s issue, AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site focuses on the use of personal health records to improve care. The featured Innovations describe three programs that used personal health record systems to improve care. In addition, the featured QualityTools provide resources and tools to assist health care consumers in creating their own personal health records.
» READ THIS ISSUE & more on the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site
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