2013 National Health IT (NHIT) Week: (click here) 10 Ways to Celebrate NHIT Week in Your Hometown
With partners across the U.S., National Health Information Technology Week is a virtual event with various activities in communities from Maine to California. As a partner-driven event, we encourage participants to leverage the opportunity to raise awareness and help the collective cause by recognizing the Week in local communities. To this end, we’ve put together 10 ways you can celebrate NHIT Week in your hometown. Feel free to use one or more of our ideas, or come up with ideas your own!...Ask local hospitals and health care facilities where and when they are celebrating National Health IT Week. If they are not, then ask why not. If the state doesn't have manufacturing to support this industry, why not? It is all about the local economies we seek to nurture. Health care is part of that along with the education of those that work in the industry, the inventions that serve us and the places the technology manufacturers the products we need.
It is all about localizing manufacturing, transportation and production. Where is best, how do we generate jobs and how do we reduce the transportation footprint?
Hospitals are systems these days. They already have their own client demand and known markets. It is a matter of where best to manufacture the products our local economies use and how best to transport them for timely and efficient use.
USDA is partnering with HHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs to leverage funds to support advanced health care technology in rural hospitals. This partnership is an extension of a successful pilot launched in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi and Texas to identify rural critical access hospitals in persistent poverty areas in need of advanced health care technology.
...USDA Rural Development Iowa State Office, (click here) the Iowa Regional Health IT Extension Center (REC) and the Iowa State Office of Rural Health convened the first Iowa Rural Health IT Forum to launch a pilot project designed to expand funding for rural health IT infrastructure to support Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and rural hospitals in Iowa...
An energy cooperative is helping to build American infrastructure. Local communities are solving their own problems. Seek the solutions everyone needs.
Access Energy Cooperative – $300,000 Rural Economic Development grant and $495,000 Rural Economic Development loan. Funds will be used to create a revolving loan fund that will provide a pass-through loan for the Henry County Health Center to purchase equipment for the surgical and outpatient departments. The project will create three jobs and help retain 300 existing jobs.
What is Access Energy Cooperative doing to meet it's obligations to the local economy?
“Iowa Renewable Energy Jobs 2020” (click here) will create jobs, save consumers
money, grow Iowa businesses, and meet our obligations to future
generations.Iowa has been a leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency. We need to do much more to achieve the full benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency for our state. This is important for our economy, energy security, public health, the environment, and long-term prosperity.
Where are the wind turbines produced? In Michigan? Why isn't Michigan using their turbines to promote more use of them all over the USA?
Keep it local.
Keep it real.
Keep it growing.
