With the Obama administration's mandate for health care companies to demonstrate meaningful use of EMRs to qualify for
stimulus money under the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act, health care companies now have a greater incentive to adopt EMR technology.
And if Congress doesn't agree with the Obama administration's request to continue the program, then the Race to the Top, which is being funded with economic -
stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will end.
Not exact matches
The biggest question seems to be whether NIH can approve lines fast enough that they can be used with stem cell grants submitted to NIH for the
money allocated
under the U.S. economic
stimulus plan.
The $ 10 - billion price tag to get these projects on track is equally ambitious — California is looking for $ 4.7 billion of this to come from the $ 8 billion in
stimulus money the federal government is making available for high - speed rail projects
under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Under Chu, DOE's biggest effort has been the review and selection of solar projects to be funded with the 2009
stimulus money, including the ARPA - E grants.
With little
stimulus money expected to be left for construction after states make up for recession - driven budget cuts, districts are scrambling for some $ 24 billion or more in zero - or low - interest bonds
under the $ 787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The funding is from two federal sources, including $ 1.75 million
under the No Child Left Behind act and the remaining $ 3.45 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as
stimulus money.
One alternative that's been
under development at Michigan State University for years is picking up momentum, in large part because of $ 2.5 million in seed
money as part of the
stimulus spending from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Energy, in 2009.
The first loan offer did not come through until March 2009, after President Obama had taken office and the program had received more
money under the
stimulus act.
Jenkins said the
money needed might not be as much as the peak of spending
under the
stimulus bill and earlier programs, which was as high as $ 44 billion in 2009 — «but I think it needs to be quite a bit higher than the downward slope we see going forward.»