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- Is Government Health IT Program Overreaching?
- Ever since the government announced it would offer financial rewards of $44,000 to $64,000 to each physician who could show “meaningful use†of a qualified electronic health record, doctors have been wondering what meaningful use means. Today the Health IT Policy Committee, which advises the U.S. Department of Health and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
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- Round 2 of "Meaningful Use" Lets Up A Bit on Physicians
- The Health IT Policy Committee, which advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has adopted the revised recommendations of its workgroup on the “meaningful use†of electronic health records. Physicians will have to show meaningful use to qualify for government financial incentives that are scheduled to start flowing...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Industry Pushes Back on EHR "Meaningful Use" Definition
- When the government’s Health IT Policy Committee met a couple of weeks ago, some committee members suggested that a workgroup’s preliminary definition of “meaningful use†of electronic health records had gone too far. Now the official comments are in, and it’s clear that most of the healthcare industry agrees that...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- QE Inflationary, Rates Could Stay Low - Tories
- By Matt FalloonLONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England's stimulus efforts will eventually fuel inflation but the economic outlook means interest rates could stay at record lows for at least a year, the Conservatives said on Tuesday.To combat the longest recession on record, the central bank has slashed interest...
- News items 2009-11-10
- QE Inflationary, Rates Could Stay Low
- By Matt FalloonLONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England's stimulus efforts will eventually fuel inflation but the economic outlook means interest rates could stay at record lows for at least a year, the Conservatives said on Tuesday.To combat the longest recession on record, the central bank has slashed interest...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Three-way MPC Split "not Surprising"
- By Sumeet Desai and David MillikenLONDON (Reuters UK) - The three-way split among monetary policymakers' last meeting should be no surprise given the economy is at a turning point, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said on Tuesday.The central bank's Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase its asset-buying or quantitative...
- News items 2009-11-24
- The Fed's shift in policy: the mortgage industry is poised for a hit from higher interest rates in 2005. Here's some insight into the Fed's thinking as it reacts to economic news and positions itself to move rates higher in the months ahead
- THE FEDERAL OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE FOMC, the arm of the Federal Reserve that sets interest rate policy, earlier this spring set a new course to restore the central bank's monetary policy stance to neutrality. For four years, it has pursued a policy of accommodation in the face of a series...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Bank happier, but will Tesco's well-oiled wheels go wobbly?
- The recent fall in the oil price is likely to placate the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, which decides whether or not to lift interest rates this week. But the black stuff's huge gains earlier this year may hit profits at supermarket giant Tesco. Goldman Sachs...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Nationwide defies Alistair Darling on mortgage interest rate cuts
- Nationwide, Britain's biggest building society, will not pass on any further cuts to the Bank of England base rate to customers with tracker mortgages, The Times has learnt. The lender plans to invoke a rule in its mortgage contracts allowing it to freeze tracker rates when the base rate falls...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Bank Report May Signal QE Wind Down
- By Fiona ShaikhLONDON (Reuters UK) - Inflation will hit its 2 percent target and growth will return in the medium term, new Bank of England forecasts are expected to show on Wednesday, signalling the economy is ready to be weaned off its stimulus.The forecasts will have underpinned the Monetary Policy...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Bank Report May Signal QE Wind Down
- By Fiona ShaikhLONDON (Reuters UK) - Inflation will hit its 2 percent target and growth will return in the medium term, new Bank of England forecasts are expected to show on Wednesday, signalling the economy is ready to be weaned off its stimulus.The forecasts will have underpinned the Monetary Policy...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Call to cut rates
- THE Bank of England policymakers began their two-day meeting on interest rates today amid calls for a cut in borrowing costs. Retailers smarting from their worst Christmas in three years have urged the Bank's nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee to ease pres sure on consumers hit by higher mortgage bills....
- Research articles 2008-01-09
- Bank Split 3 Ways on QE
- By Sumeet Desai and Christina FincherLONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee split three ways in November, with seven members backing a 25 billion pound boost to the economy, one wanting more and another calling for no increase at all.Minutes of the November 4-5 meeting published...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Bank Policymakers in Parliament
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and fellow Monetary Policy Committee members Paul Tucker, Paul Fisher, Adam Posen and Andrew Sentance took questions on the November Inflation Report from the Commons' Treasury Committee on Tuesday. Following are highlights from the session.KING ON NEED FOR STIMULUS"If private...
- News items 2009-11-24
- Could Recession Turn the UK into the Next Japan?
- Kathy Lien submits: When the Bank of England cut interest rates by 150bp last week, I turned aggressively bullish EUR/GBP on the belief that interest rates are headed below 2%. The currency pair has now hit a record high as the market realizes that not only will UK...
- External links 2008-11-12
- Bank of England cuts rates for first time in two years
- LONDON AFP — The Bank of England trimmed British interest rates on Thursday for the first time since August 2005 in a bid to combat slower economic growth hit by an ongoing global credit squeeze. The BoE announcement, following a meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee, comes as central...
- Research articles 2007-12-06
- Evening Standard, London, Business Briefs Column.
- Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 4--INTEREST RATES: The Bank of England's monetary policy committee meets next Wednesday and Thursday, although no change in interest rates is expected. After slashing the base rate seven times last year, taking it to 4 percent,...
- Research articles 2002-01-04
- British Chancellor Dismisses Fears of Housing Crash.
- Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 26--Rising interest rates look likely to take the heat out of the housing boom, though over the weekend Chancellor Gordon Brown dismissed fears that the property market could crash. Paul Tucker, a...
- Research articles 2004-04-26
- Caution urged by Nationwide as house prices buck expectations.
- Prices House prices have continued to increase despite predictions of a fall after the Bank of England raised interest rates, Nationwide Building Society has revealed. Figures from the building society showed average property prices rising by 1.4 per cent in November....
- Research articles 2006-12-07
- Policy Shift on PC Export Controls Unlikely, for Now : In wake of Cox Report, industry heads make their case
- New York-The Cox Report could not have come at more inopportune time. Three weeks ago, a congressional committee headed by Rep. Christopher Cox of California blamed the White House for lapses in national security that allegedly helped Chinese spies obtain secrets from U.S. weapons labs, and for not keeping...
- Research articles 1999-06-14
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