Weekly News Wrap-Up (May 3 - May 7)

Federal Government to Release $220 Million in Healthcare IT Stimulus Grants, Biden, Sebelius Announce (McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and Assisted Living, May 6, 2010)
Vice President Joe Biden and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week disclosed that $220 million in stimulus grants for pilot programs will be disbursed to test healthcare IT systems.

New Healthcare Law Might Make Your Doctor More Informed, Efficient, Responsive (The Washington Post, May 4, 2010)
In many respects, American doctors today labor much the way their counterparts did 50 years ago.  The new healthcare law aims to change most of that.

Parsing the New Law on Long-Term Care (The New York Times, May 3, 2010)
Call it Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s final bequest.  The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or Class Act, the first national plan to help the great majority of Americans who have no insurance for long-term care, became law in March.