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Description: Parkview Health System, Inc. has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: HIPAA
Description: 2014 news releases of the US Department of Health and Human Services
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Description: HHS today released the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease: 2014 Update, reflecting the nation's progress toward accomplishing goals set in 2012 and current action steps to achieving them.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: National Men's Health Week, June 9-15, which concludes with Father's Day, is a good time to focus on how men can take control of their health. That includes eating right, being active, and taking advantage of certain preventive services, such as screenings for cholesterol, blood pressure, and diabetes.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell announced today that next year's standard Medicare Part B monthly premium and deductible will remain the same as the last two years.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: An increasing number of U.S. hospitals are now equipped to treat patients with Ebola, giving nationwide health system Ebola readiness efforts a boost.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: Today, April 22, 2014, marks the 44th celebration of Earth Day in the United States — a day when we can all take time to appreciate the connection between our environment and health.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Global Health
Description: Today we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General's Report on smoking and health.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Holidays and Observances
Description: Fifty years ago today was a tipping point in recognizing and reversing the deadly epidemic caused by smoking.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Holidays and Observances
Description: Fifty years ago today, Dr. Luther Terry released the landmark Surgeon General's Report – the first of its kind on smoking and health – concluding that smoking causes lung cancer.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Holidays and Observances
Description: A report released by the Department of Health and Human Services today provides the first detailed analysis of enrollment in the Marketplaces for the first month of the 2015 open enrollment period.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: This week, our nation reached a milestone in battling influenza, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's first approval to manufacture seasonal influenza vaccine using cell-based technology in a U.S. facility.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Global Health
Description: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has approved the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for a second three-year term as the ONC-Approved Accreditor (ONC-AA) for the ONC Health Information Technology Certification Program.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health IT
Description: Today, the Administration took several steps to help ensure women, whose coverage is threatened, receive coverage for recommended contraceptive services at no additional cost, as they should be entitled to under the Affordable Care Act.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced today that about 76 million Americans in private health insurance plans are newly eligible to receive expanded coverage for one or more recommended preventive health care services, such as a mammogram or flu shot, without cost sharing, because of the Affordable Care Act.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Heart disease is responsible for 1 of every 4 deaths in the United States, making it the leading cause of death in our nation. As we observe American Heart Month, there are some key steps you and your loved ones can take to protect against heart disease.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Prevention and Wellness
Description: Beginning with Mother's Day on Sunday, we celebrate National Women's Health Week by encouraging the women in our lives – our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, friends, and colleagues – to take steps to live healthier, happier lives.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Holidays and Observances
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today that consumers have saved a total of $9 billion on their health insurance premiums since 2011 as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Skagit County, Washington, has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: HIPAA
Description: Acting Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak, M.D., M.P.H. today declared this Thanksgiving day, November 27, Â as the eleventh annual Family Health History Day. Over the holiday or at other times when families gather, Americans are encouraged to talk about and keep a record of the health problems that seem to run in their families.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: Today, leaders in the fight against elder abuse announced a framework for tackling the highest priority challenges to elder abuse prevention and prosecution, and called on all Americans to take a stand against the serious societal problem of elder abuse, neglect and financial exploitation.Â
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Fraud
HHS Official: Kathy Greenlee
Description: Two health care organizations have agreed to settle charges that they potentially violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules by failing to secure thousands of patients' electronic protected health information (ePHI) held on their network.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: HIPAA
Description: To reach more Americans this open enrollment season, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced a first-of-its-kind partnership between HHS and the electronic cash transactions company PayNearMe to reach financially underserved and other cash-preferring consumers.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: To reach more Americans this open enrollment season, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has collaborated with top technology companies Monster.com, Peers.org and higi to utilize their technology platforms to encourage consumers to visit the Health Insurance Marketplace.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released the annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) Program report showing that for every dollar spent on health care-related fraud and abuse investigations through this and other programs in the last three years, the government recovered $8.10.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Fraud
Description: The EPA's proposed rule setting carbon standards for power plants will help protect public health by improving air quality and reducing exposure to particle pollution.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Public Health and Safety
Description: A report released by the Department of Health and Human Services today shows an estimated 50,000 fewer patients died in hospitals and approximately $12 billion in health care costs were saved as a result of a reduction in hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to 2013.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: A new report issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finds that that nearly 8 in 10 uninsured Latinos may qualify for Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Â or lower costs on monthly premiums through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: According to a new report released today by HHS, 8 out of 10 (1.6 million) uninsured Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) may be eligible for coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace and could qualify for Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or tax credits to help with the cost of premiums.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: Aproximadamente 5.6 millones de niños vivos en la actualidad en los Estados Unidos —es decir 1 de cada 13 niños menores de 18 años— morirán en forma prematura por enfermedades relacionadas con el tabaquismo, a menos que las tasas actuales de tabaquismo disminuyan, según un nuevo informe del director general de Servicios de Salud.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Public Health and Safety
Description: Enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace continued to rise in February to a five-month total of 4.2 million.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace continued to rise in January, with a 53 percent increase in overall enrollment over the prior three month reporting period, with young adult enrollment outpacing all other age groups combined, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: Enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace surged to eight million at the end of the first enrollment period, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: The need to share patient information with other providers and the use of financial incentives are key drivers in why many providers adopt and use health information technology tools like electronic health records (EHRs), according a data brief released today from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Data
Description: History has taught us time and again just how dangerous and destructive hurricanes and other forces of nature can be.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell and Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today that applications are now available for the $250 million Preschool Development Grants competition.Â
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Public Health and Safety
HHS Official: Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Statement on National Minority Health Month.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Holidays and Observances
Description: At the Department of Health and Human Services, we are committed to ensuring that members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community have access to quality, affordable health care and enjoy the same rights and protections that all Americans expect and deserve.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced an initiative that will fund successful applicants who work directly with medical providers to rethink and redesign their practices, moving from systems driven by quantity of care to ones focused on patients' health outcomes, and coordinated health care systems.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today named a new member to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) and renewed appointments for three members of the Health IT Standards Committee (HITSC).
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health IT
Description: The development of a vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease will be accelerated with support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today the most recent in a series of management hires intended to ensure a successful 2015 Open Enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace and make good on the promise that millions more Americans will be able to access quality, affordable health coverage.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Marilyn B. Tavenner, Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: The Affordable Care Act is working for millions of Americans who are able to access quality health coverage at a price they can afford, in large part because of the efforts of in-person assisters in local communities across the nation.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today $99 million to train new mental health providers, help teachers and others recognize mental health issues in youth and connect them to help, and increase access to mental health services for young people.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expects to announce its plans for helping existing Marketplace consumers get auto-enrolled for next year.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Marilyn B. Tavenner, Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today the availability of $11 million, through the Affordable Care Act and the Secretary's Minority AIDS Initiative Fund, to support the integration of highâ€quality HIV services into primary care through innovative partnerships between health centers and state health departments in Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland and New York.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Mary K. Wakefield, Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is now able to process requests for Medicare Part A and Part B Special Enrollment Periods, and reductions in Part B and premium Part A late enrollment penalties for certain eligible people in same-sex marriages.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Medicare and Medicaid
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced nearly $212 million in grant awards to all 50 states and the District of Columbia to support programs aimed at preventing chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced partnerships with Westfield Shopping Centers, The National Community Pharmacists Association and XO Group Inc., parent company of The Knot, The Nest and The Bump, to promote the Health Insurance Marketplace in conjunction with Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: The nation's health is improving in more than half of the critical measures that are known to have major influence in reducing preventable disease and death, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Prevention and Wellness
Description: HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today the availability of $100 million from the Affordable Care Act to support an estimated 150 new health center sites across the country in 2015.Â
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the availability of up to $300 million under the Affordable Care Act to help the nation's community health centers expand service hours, hire more medical providers, and add oral health, behavioral health, pharmacy, and vision services.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced $36.3 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 1,113 health centers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and seven U.S. Territories to recognize health center quality improvement achievements and invest in ongoing quality improvement activities.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today $54.6 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support 221 health centers in 47 states and Puerto Rico to establish or expand behavioral health services for over 450,000 people nationwide.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Mary K. Wakefield
Description: HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today released $65 million in grants to help 87 organizations in 33 states reduce high infant mortality rates and other health problems related to pregnancy and mothers' health.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
HHS Official: Mary K. Wakefield, Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell today announced $83.4 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support primary care residency programs in 60 Teaching Health Centers across the nation.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Mary K. Wakefield, Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today $106.7 million in FY 2014 grant awards to 46 states, the District of Columbia, and five jurisdictions as part of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (Home Visiting Program) established by the Affordable Care Act.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Mary K. Wakefield
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today $295 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 1,195 health centers in every U.S. State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin to expand primary care services.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Twenty eight states, three territories and the District of Columbia will receive over $665 million in Affordable Care Act funding to design and test health care payment and service delivery models that will improve health care quality and lower costs, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: The development of a medication to treat illness from Ebola will be accelerated under a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
HHS Official: Nicole Lurie
Description: HHS today established a network of five clinical research organizations that will design and conduct clinical studies needed to develop medical countermeasures – drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tests that help protect health against bioterrorism, pandemic influenza, and other public health emergencies.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: A new drug to help protect the public against two bioterrorism threats and provide a new option to treat antibiotic-resistant infections will advance in development under a public-private partnership, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) announced today.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: A potential drug to combat a complication of severe infections known as a cytokine storm will advance in development under an agreement announced today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Global Health
Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $840 million to continue improving emergency preparedness of state and local public health and health care systems.Â
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: In an effort to help clinical practices use health information technology (health IT) like electronic health records (EHRs) to reduce high blood pressure, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today launched a new challenge asking health care professionals and other caregivers to submit the tools they use to improve patient care.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health IT
HHS Official: Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc
Description: A new set of guides and interactive tools to help health care providers more safely use electronic health information technology products, such as electronic health records (EHRs), are now available at www.HealthIT.gov.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: Department of Health and Human Services' Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today that HHS is collaborating with the nation's largest pharmacies to encourage enrollment through the Health Insurance Marketplace at thousands of locations across the country.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Health information technology (IT) developers, providers and consumers will get more flexibility through a final rule issued today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: Potential tests to help doctors diagnose influenza sooner and more accurately will advance in development under contracts from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: With more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, data scientists, researchers, policy experts, government employees and more in attendance, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing new data and launching new initiatives at the annual Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: A new security risk assessment (SRA) tool to help guide health care providers in small to medium sized offices conduct risk assessments of their organizations is now available from HHS.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) considers climate change to be one of the top public health challenges of our time.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: HHS Administrative
Description: Three innovative solutions are winners of an idea challenge to help communities support patients who depend on durable medical equipment (DME), such as oxygen concentrators and portable ventilators, during emergencies.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
HHS Official: Nicole Lurie
Description: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will sponsor the advanced development of a next-generation portable ventilator to help fill the need for portable, low-cost, user-friendly and flexible ventilators in a pandemic or other public health emergency.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule today to ensure that Medicaid's home and community-based services programs provide full access to the benefits of community living and offer services in the most integrated settings.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Medicare and Medicaid
Description: As part of an ongoing effort to empower patients to be informed partners with their health care providers, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken action to give patients or a person designated by the patient a means of direct access to the patient's completed laboratory test reports.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: HIPAA
Description: Contracts to speed further development of two promising Ebola vaccines, known as rVSV-ZEBOV-GP and ChAd3 EBO-Z, could pave the way for commercial scale production of millions of vaccine doses if clinical trials prove safety and efficacy, officials of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) announced today.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced new prospective awardees to test innovative care models, bringing the total amount of funding to as much as $360 million for 39 recipients spanning 27 states and the District of Columbia.Â
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Marilyn B. Tavenner, Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today released a new report showing that in 2013 alone, consumers benefitted from $1 billion in savings from lower than originally requested health insurance rates.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Historic release of data gives consumers unprecedented transparency on the medical services physicians provide and how much they are paid.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Medicare and Medicaid
Description: This week, our nation honors emergency medical service (EMS) professionals for their dedication to public service.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that a nationwide takedown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in six cities has resulted in charges against 90 individuals, including 27 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $260 million in false billings.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released findings on a number of its initiatives to reform the health care delivery system.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Significant increases in the use of electronic health records (EHRs) among the nation's physicians and hospitals are detailed in two new studies published today by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health IT
HHS Official: Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc
Description: Every day, the millions of Americans living with autism and their families face unique and daunting challenges that many of us will never fully appreciate. During National Autism Awareness Month, we renew our commitment to better understand autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and improve the lives of individuals living with it.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Holidays and Observances
Description: A new electronic tool designed to help patients and their families use Medicare claims data to make health care choices won the second annual Code-a-Palooza challenge according to announcement today by Karen DeSalvo, M.D., national coordinator for Health Information Technology, at the 2014 Health Datapalooza.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health IT
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today that because of the Affordable Care Act, $283 million has been invested in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) in fiscal year 2014 to increase access to primary care services in communities that need it most.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: National Public Health Week is a time to recognize progress we have made in strengthening and protecting the public health and to rededicate ourselves to the work of improving the health and well-being of Americans by preventing disease, supporting medical research, and promoting safer and healthier communities.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Today the United States joined 26 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), to accelerate progress toward a world safe and secure from the threat of infectious disease, and committing to the goals of the Global Health Security Agenda.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Global Health
Description: Nearly 2.2 million people have selected plans from the state and federal marketplaces by Dec. 28, 2013 (the end of third reporting period for open enrollment), Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Marilyn B. Tavenner
Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued quality and financial performance results showing that Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have improved patient care and produced hundreds of millions of dollars in savings for the program.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that new preliminary data show an overall nine percent decrease in hospital acquired conditions nationally during 2011 and 2012.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: HHS' Administration for Children and Families (ACF) today announced preliminary winners for its Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships grants to improve the quality of existing child care programs and expand access to high-quality care for infants and toddlers.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Care
Description: Six experts from outside the federal government will join the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) to provide advice and guidance to HHS' assistant secretary for preparedness and response, and to the HHS Secretary, on preventing, preparing for, and responding to adverse health effects of public health emergencies.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: A report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services shows that consumers will have more choices as they shop for quality, affordable coverage on the Health Insurance Marketplace in 2015, because there will be a net 25 percent increase in the number of issuers offering Marketplace coverage in 2015. In total, 77 new issuers will offer Marketplace coverage.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today the release of a new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, estimating that 10.3 million uninsured adults gained health care coverage following the first open enrollment period in the Health Insurance Marketplace.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Affordable Care Act
HHS Official: Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: The needs of children in disasters will be the focus of an advisory committee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Description: Fifteen experts will serve on a new federal advisory committee focusing on health needs of children in disasters, from natural disasters to bioterrorism incidents, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Emergency Preparedness and Response
HHS Official: Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Description: Following collaboration with more than 35 federal agencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today issued the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020.
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Creator: HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA)
Date: 2014
Group: HHS News Releases
Categories: Health Data
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