Diana Manos

The House voted Friday afternoon to approve the final version of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill by a 246-183 vote, according to CNN reports.

Iatric Systems, Inc., will endow a hospital in need with an enterprise-wide patient privacy and auditing security solution worth $50,000 to $100,000, company officers have announced.

Congress reached a $789 billion deal on the stimulus plan Wednesday that includes more than $100 billion for healthcare. Some healthcare provisions were trimmed, however, from the original House and Senate versions in effort to appease Republicans needed to pass the law.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said it will take more than what's in the stimulus package to reform U.S. healthcare.

President Barack Obama pushed the urgency of an economic stimulus package during his first televised national address Monday night.

In the midst of a major battle in Washington over the future of healthcare reform, a new report by the Institute for America's Future shows that the public supports a mixture of public-private health plans similar to that proposed by President Barack Obama.

More than two years in the making, Congress has passed a bill reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program. President Obama signed the bill into law Wednesday.

At the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball on Jan. 20, a newscaster asked President Obama what he planned to do his first day on the job. To very little surprise, he said he planned to work on the economic recovery plan.

State officials are urging the federal government to help them with a $140 billion budget shortfall expected before 2010.

Congress is preparing for swift action on refunding and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, known as SCHIP, under the new Obama administration.