Feds Plan for 35 Agencies to Help Collect, Share, Use Electronic Health Info

Along with the primary goal of expanding the availability of health insurance, the Affordable Care Act aims to make the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) universal. This plan actually began with the 2009 stimulus (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), which included the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Doctors and other health providers have been offered incentives to convert patient information and health histories to a compatible and transferable electronic format, and as of June 2014, 75 percent of eligible doctors and 92 percent of eligible hospitals had received payments under the program.

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Sure to pluck at your heartstrings - A Letter from Fred

NOT POLITICAL!
Last Sunday, Mockarena at Chicks on the Right posted a video titled "A Letter from Fred" under the headline, "Consider This A Sunday Gift. Because That's Really What It Is." Fred Stobaugh is a 96 year old gentleman, who lost his wife this year. They had met in 1938 and married two years later. In all, Fred and Lorraine shared 75 years together and, missing her terribly, Fred wrote a song about her. Grab a tissue and see what happened after Fred read a newspaper notice from Green Shoe Studio...

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Today, Mock posted a followup video and her title is "Gleeeeeees!!!" As of August 29th, Fred's song "Oh Sweet Lorraine" hit #1 on iTunes.

I purchased the song and have been playing it all week and apologize for not thinking to share this story sooner. I dedicate this post to all of you who have lost someone as dear to you as Lorraine was to Fred. --bc Read More......