How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 8 October 2018 in Broadband, Business and health, Connected health, Digital health, Electronic health records, Electronic medical records, Employers, Grocery stores, Health care information technology, Health IT, Health law, Health policy, Health politics, Remote health monitoring, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Virtual health
It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), less formally known as the Stimulus Bill. This was the legislation best known for addressing and helping to bring the U.S. out of the Great Recession. A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title
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