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            Beyond stories about the Senate’s health care bill, which run aplenty these days, we have seen more developments across our industry, including the president continuing to solidify members of his administration and the National Institutes of Health announcing a new initiative.
  
      
              
    
					
  
    
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            This blog is the second in a two-part series on the president’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal. 
  
      
              
    
					
  
    
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            Kresge Foundation Grant Aims to Create National Interoperability Collaborative
  
      
              
    
					
  
    
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            The president's budget request is typically described by journalists and political pundits as "dead on arrival" regardless of who is in charge of what branch of government. Congress takes their constitutional "power of the purse" very seriously, and while lawmakers do take the president's request into consideration, they take pride in making their own funding decisions...
  
      
              
    
					
  
    
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            This advocacy update will center on federally funded research at the forces at play.
  
      
              
    
					
  
    
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            eGEMs, AcademyHealth’s open access peer-reviewed journal, released a new call for papers, open through July 1, that seeks to address some of the fundamental health data issues revealed at the recent Health Datapalooza.
  
      
              
    
					
  
    
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            As can be expected, this week all eyes – ours included – have been on the president's proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2018, so today I'll provide a recap with all we know so far.
  
      
              
    
					
  
    
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            Today the president's budget was released, providing some much-needed detail to the "skinny budget" that was released in March. Today's release confirms the Administration's earlier proposal to move the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality under the National Institutes of Health umbrella.
  
      
            
        Posted       May 23, 2017
  
      
              
              
    
					
  
    
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            This week’s advocacy update will be shorter than last week’s, but there have been a few developments I wanted to be sure were on your radars.
  
      
              
    
					
  
    
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            For more than 30 years, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has collected, analyzed and disseminated data on health care utilization in the United States, including the National Health Care Surveys, a family of surveys of health care providers in inpatient, ambulatory, and long-term care settings. NCHS is now bringing this family of surveys into the electronic realm. 
  
      
            
        Posted       May 17, 2017