Following up on a pledge to freeze spending unrelated to national security over the next three years, the White House is asking federal agencies to offer plans to shave 5 percent from their budgets by eliminating their worst-performing programs, and among them are some connected to higher education. At a news conference on Tuesday, Peter [...]
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The Role of ONC under HHS The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recognizes that the task of assisting primary care providers in adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems and achieving meaningful use will be extremely challenging, especially for those working in ONC’s priority settings. The supply of [...]
The public Workforce Investment System is charged with the mission of preparing a qualified workforce to meet the business needs of its community. The $20 billion in health information technology (HIT) stimulus funding, provided through ARRA to incentivize physician adoption of electronic health records (EHR), will create unprecedented growth in demand for EHR systems in [...]
Dear Colleagues, It isn’t often I gloat about union actitivity, but this tactical move by a union is truly a coup. You may have heard that the CW Television Network started airing “Fly Girls,” a reality television show about five female flight attendants for Virgin America. According to NetAssets sources, Virgin America executives were unaware [...]
The professor at Colorado State University, who has become a prominent animal rights activist, spoke at the recent TED Conference in California about how people’s brains work in different ways — and how that’s something that should be appreciated, not stigmatized. Grandin, for instance, thinks in pictures, “like Google for images,” she said. She also [...]
As U.S. unemployment is showing signs of recovering from a 25-year high, a new trend study from the University of California San Diego Extension reveals some of the hottest career options for college graduates in this recession. More http://extension.ucsd.edu/about/images/careerReport.pdf
Funds are now available for Training and Employment Services for State Workforce Agencies (SWA) to develop the Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI). Grants will provide SWAs the opportunity to develop and use State workforce longitudinal administrative data systemsto develop and use State workforce longitudinal administrative data systemsT The U. S. Department of Labor, Employment and [...]
Howard Floyd, 51, got a strange call. It was from a woman who had a lead on a job for him. She told him she represented a man who owned a company that was looking for new trainees. The man running the company wanted to see Floyd, the woman told him, because he had a [...]
Friends of the WorkPlace: We were notified today by the USDOL that we were awarded $500,000to continue our Veterans Workforce Investment Program (VWIP) for another year. Ours was one of 22 awards issued nationally. We expect to serve 200 Veterans with this grant. VWIP is a partnership we established with the New Haven region. This program focuses on [...]
