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Under the HITECH Act, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) resolved to spend $25.9 billion to promote and expand the adoption of health information technology. [1] The Washington Post reported the inclusion of "as much as $36.5 billion in spending to create a nationwide network of electronic health records ."
Precision diagnostics is a branch of precision medicine that involves managing a patient's healthcare model and diagnosing specific diseases based on omics data analytics. [1] The U.S. announced federal funding for precision medicine research efforts in 2015 with the Precision Medicine Initiative. A year later, the Human Personal Omics ...
DREN is installed at more than 210 DoD sites including research laboratories, test centers, universities, and industrial locations throughout the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska). [8] The fourth generation DREN network (DREN 4) is provided under a commercial services contract awarded to Verizon in 2021. [9]
Agencies that are responsible for state-level regulating, monitoring, managing, and protecting environmental and public health concerns. The exact duties of these agencies can vary widely and some are combined with or are part of a state's fish and wildlife management agency.
Clinical laboratory services includes large multinational corporations such LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics, and Sonic Healthcare [23] but a significant portion of revenue, estimated at 60% in the United States, is generated by hospital labs. [24] In 2018, the total global revenue for these companies was estimated to reach $146 billion by 2024. [25]
The state secretary of health is a constitutional or at times a statutory official in several states of the United States. The position is the chief executive official for the state's state health agency (or equivalent), chief administrative officer for the state's Board of Health (or equivalent), or both.
The United States federal government chartered and owned corporations operate to provide public services. Unlike government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or independent commissions, such as the Federal Communications Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and others, they have a separate legal personality from the federal government.
Government departments responsible for health issues and health services in the United States exist at federal, state and local levels. The first, at city level, were founded in the late 18th century; now many operate at city or county level. State-level work began in the mid-19th century, now every state has one.