I
107
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
H. R. 1784
To establish an Office on Women’s Health within the Department of Health
and Human Services, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
M
AY
9, 2001
Mrs. M
ORELLA
(for herself, Mrs. M
ALONEY
of New York, Mr. W
AXMAN
, Mr.
T
OM
D
AVIS
of Virginia, Ms. S
LAUGHTER
, Mr. M
C
N
ULTY
, Mr. H
ONDA
,
Ms. B
ROWN
of Florida, Mrs. T
HURMAN
, Ms. E
SHOO
, Mr. L
ANTOS
, Ms.
L
EE
, Mr. W
YNN
, Mr. F
ROST
, Ms. N
ORTON
, Ms. M
C
C
ARTHY
of Missouri,
Mr. H
ILLIARD
, Mr. H
ORN
, Ms. B
ALDWIN
, Ms. M
ILLENDER
-M
C
D
ONALD
,
Mrs. C
HRISTENSEN
, Ms. D
E
L
AURO
, Ms. J
ACKSON
-L
EE
of Texas, Mr.
W
EXLER
, Ms. S
OLIS
, Mrs. R
OUKEMA
, Mr. K
ILDEE
, Ms. K
APTUR
, Ms.
H
ARMAN
, Ms. S
CHAKOWSKY
, Mr. B
ENTSEN
, and Mrs. J
ONES
of Ohio) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce
A BILL
To establish an Office on Women’s Health within the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Women’s Health Office4
Act of 2001’’.5
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SEC. 2. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE ON WOM-1
EN’S HEALTH.2
Part A of title II of the Public Health Service Act3
(42 U.S.C. 202 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end4
the following:5
‘‘SEC. 229. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE ON6
WOMEN’S HEALTH.7
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT OF
O
FFICE
.—There is estab-8
lished within the Office of the Secretary an Office on9
Women’s Health (referred to in this section as the ‘Of-10
fice’). The Office on Women’s Health shall be headed by11
a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women’s Health.12
‘‘(b) D
UTIES
.—The Office shall, with respect to the13
health concerns of women—14
‘‘(1) establish short-range and long-range goals15
and objectives and coordinate all activities within the16
Department of Health and Human Services that re-17
late to disease prevention, health promotion, service18
delivery, research, and public and health care profes-19
sional education concerning women;20
‘‘(2) provide expert advice and consultation to21
the Secretary concerning scientific, legal ethical, and22
policy issues relating to women’s health;23
‘‘(3) monitor the Department of Health and24
Human Services offices, agencies, and regional ac-25
tivities regarding women’s health and stimulate ac-26
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tivities and facilitate coordination of such depart-1
mental and agency offices on women’s health;2
‘‘(4) establish a Department of Health and3
Human Services Coordinating Committee on Wom-4
en’s Health to be chaired by the Deputy Assistant5
Secretary for Women’s Health which shall be com-6
posed of senior level representatives from each of the7
agencies and offices of the Department of Health8
and Human Services;9
‘‘(5) establish a National Women’s Health In-10
formation Center to—11
‘‘(A) facilitate the exchange of information12
regarding matters relating to health Hai duong’s people committee THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & INVESTMENT Independence - Freedom Happiness Hai Duong, December 21th, 2012 No: 1606/BC-KHDT-KTDN REPORT ON HAI DUONG’S FDI OF THE YEAR 2012 AND PLANNING OF THE YEAR 2013 Investment Certificate granting: 1.1 Investment Certificate granting and adjusting: a) Investment Certificate granting: Up to now (31/12/2012), Hai Duong province has 241 valid projects with total investment capital of 5.665,14 million USD (in which there are 115 projects inside Industrial Zones with total investment capital of 1.882,6 million USD; there are 126 projects outside Industrial Zones with total investment capital of 3.779,54 million USD) In 2012, granted Investment Certificate for 20 newly projects with total investment capital of 52,11 million USD (in which 08 projects inside Industrial Zones with total investment capital of 24,26 million USD; 12 projects outside Industrial Zones with total investment capital of 27,85 million USD) b) Evaluation: Generally, those newly projects in 2012 have small scale, average million USD per project The investment projects concentrated on some fields as: manufacturing, mechanism, assemble and good distribution etc Investors are mainly from Japan and Korea The number of newly projects in 2012 were decreased, accounted for 71,4% compare to that of 2011 Investment Certificate adjusting: a) Investment Certificate adjusting -2- In 2012, there were 89 projects were adjusted, in which 14 projects increased investment capital with total capital increased of 91,2 million USD (06 projects outside Industrial Zones with total capital of 25,5 million USD, 08 projects inside Industrial Zones with total capital of 65,7 million USD) Those projects were mainly in the fied of: bussiness added, investment capital increased, fixed capital increased, or legal representative changed etc The additional capital accounted for 17,9% compare to that of 2011 In general, both newly granting and adjusting, Hai Duong attracted 143,3 million USD, accounted for 4,7% compare to that of 2011 Projects withdrawing and ending of operation: In 2012, Hai Duong withdrew FDI projects with total investment capital of 52,8 million USD (in which there were projects outside Industrial Zones and 02 projects inside Industrial Zones) including 01 projects changed into new center (Hai Duong - Vieng Chan join venture center) and 04 projects did not implement the project The non and slow implemented are still exist, especially projects which were issued from 2007 and 2008 The reasons mainly due to investors are in financial’s difficulties Besides, there are some projects which had come into operation but due to facing with difficulties in seeking consumming market, lack of production capital so that they had to stop operating and up to now, there are still not have enough ability to operate again At present, local authorities still continue to examine and consider to withdraw before expiry date some projects which have not operated Project implementing: 2.1 Capital implementing: a) Implemeting situation in the year 2012: Total investment capital in the year 2012 of FDI’s enterprises reached 464,8 million USD, increased 23,8% compare to that of the year 2011 (375,2 -3- million USD), therefore, total investment capital implement in the local reached 2.455,9 million USD, accounted for 43,3% of the total registered investment capital of 5.662,14 million USD a) Evaluation: The difficulties and challenges of the global and domestic economy has great impacted on project implementation speed Beside some investors were difficulties in capital so that they had to adjusted time schedule or called for investment cooperation, some other investors did not have enough ability to carry out project so the investment capital disbursement were low Some big projects such as: Hai Duong power plant, Pacific textile are rather slow However, many projects which were issued previous years still continue to be implemented, some projects implement rather quick and have large implement capital such as: Kien Hoa Dat Viet Co., Ltd, Hitachi Cable Co., Ltd FDI’s investment capital implement in the local increase thoughout the year, however, they are still slow compare to the fluctuation of the registered capital and newly issued project The investment capital disbursement of FDI’s projects in the local reached 42,9% compare to the total registered investment capital 2.2 Manufacturing situation: a) Turnover, export, budget’s collection and labour in the year 2012: - The turnover in the year 2012 reached: 2.852,8 million USD - Export value reached: 2.115,8 million USD - State’s budget collection reached: 97,5 million USD - Labour’s attracted: 5.800 person b) Evaluation: Up to now, there are 189 enterprises of 241 FDI valid projects in the local are in operation In the context of the global’s economy is in difficulty, FDI’s -4- enterprises in the local still maintain their business ...I
110
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
H. R. 1072
To improve the health of women through the establishment of Offices of
Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
F
EBRUARY
15, 2007
Mrs. M
ALONEY
of New York (for herself, Ms. P
RYCE
of Ohio, Mr. V
AN
H
OLLEN
, Mrs. C
APPS
, Ms. D
E
L
AURO
, Ms. N
ORTON
, Mr. C
ROWLEY
, Mrs.
L
OWEY
, Mr. M
ARSHALL
, Ms. S
LAUGHTER
, Ms. S
UTTON
, and Mr.
F
ATTAH
) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To improve the health of women through the establishment
of Offices of Women’s Health within the Department
of Health and Human Services.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Women’s Health Office 4
Act of 2007’’. 5
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SEC. 2. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE ON WOM-1
EN’S HEALTH. 2
(a) E
STABLISHMENT
.—Part A of title II of the Pub-3
lic Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 202 et seq.) is amended 4
by adding at the end the following: 5
‘‘SEC. 229. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE ON 6
WOMEN’S HEALTH. 7
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT OF
O
FFICE
.—There is estab-8
lished within the Office of the Secretary, an Office on 9
Women’s Health (referred to in this section as the ‘Of-10
fice’). The Office shall be headed by a Deputy Assistant 11
Secretary for Women’s Health who may report to the Sec-12
retary. 13
‘‘(b) D
UTIES
.—The Secretary, acting through the Of-14
fice, with respect to the health concerns of women, shall— 15
‘‘(1) establish short-range and long-range goals 16
and objectives within the Department of Health and 17
Human Services and, as relevant and appropriate, 18
coordinate with other appropriate offices on activi-19
ties within the Department that relate to disease 20
prevention, health promotion, service delivery, re-21
search, and public and health care professional edu-22
cation, for issues of particular concern to women; 23
‘‘(2) provide expert advice and consultation to 24
the Secretary concerning scientific, legal, ethical, 25
and policy issues relating to women’s health; 26
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Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201
This document also available at http://www.hhs.gov/asrt/ob/docbudget/2011budgetinbrief.pdf.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview……………………………………………………………………………………. 1
Health Reform……………….………………………………………………………… 12
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act……………………………………………… 13
Food and Drug Administration…………………………………………………………… 19
Health Resources and Services Administration…………………………………………… 22
Indian Health Service………………………………………………………………………. 27
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention……………………………………………… 31
National Institutes of Health……………………………………………………………… 37
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration…………………………… 43
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality……………………………………………… 47
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services………………………………………………… 51
Medicare……………………………………………………………………………… 53
Program Integrity Initiative………………………………… 57
Medicaid……………………………………………………………………………… 60
Children’s Health Insurance Program………………………………………………… 64
State Grants and Demonstrations……………………………………………………… 66
Program Management………………………………………………………………… 69
Administration for Children and Families………………………………………………… 74
Discretionary Spending………………………………………………………… 75
Entitlement Spending………………………………………………………………… 79
Administration on Aging…………………………………………………………………… 86
Office of the Secretary
General Departmental Management………… ……………………………………… 89
Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals………………………… …………………. 91
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology… ………… 92
Office for Civil Rights………… ……………………………………………………… 95
Service and Supply Fund……………… ……………………………………………… 97
Retirement Pay and Medical Benefits for Commissioned Officers……………… …… 99
Office of Inspector General………………………………………………………………… 100
Emergency Preparedness…………………………………………………………………… 102
Abbreviations and Acronyms……………………………………………………………… 109
ADVANCING THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND WELL-BEING
OF OUR PEOPLE
FY 2011 President’s Budget for HHS
(dollars in millions)
2011
2009 2010 2011 +/- 2010
Budget Authority (excluding Recovery Act) 779,419 800,271 880,861 +80,591
Recovery Act Budget Authority 55,087 45,162 21,066 -24,096
Total Budget Authority 834,506 845,432 901,927 +56,495
Total Outlays 794,234 859,763 910,679 +50,916
Full-Time Equivalents 67,875 70,028 72,923 +2,895
Composition of the FY 2011 Budget
$911 Billion in Outlays
Children's
Entitlement
Programs
Discretionary
TANF
2.3%
(includes
CHIP)
3.0%
Programs
10%
Other
Mandatory
Programs
0.4%
Medicare
51%
Medicaid
33%
General Notes
Detail in this document may not add to the totals due to rounding.
Budget data in this book are presented “comparably” with the FY 2011 Budget, since the location of programs may have
changed in prior years or be proposed for change in FY 2011. This is consistent with past practice, and allows increases
and decreases in this book to reflect true funding changes.
In addition – consistent with past practice – the FY 2010 figures herein reflect final enacted levels.
1 Advancing the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Our People
ADVANCING THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND WELL-BEING
OF OUR PEOPLE
The NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER INTEBFACE DESIGN
MURRAY TUROFF
DEPARTMENT OF COMPU%'z~ AND IiVFORMATION SCIENCE
IIEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SOME ICONOCLASTIC ASSERTIONS
Considering the problems we have in communicating with
other h~rmans using natural language, it is not clear
that we want to recreate these problems in dealing with
the computer. While there is some evidence that natur-
al language is useful in communications among humans,
there is also considerable evidence that it is neither
perfect nor ideal. Natural language is wordy (redun-
dant) and imprecise. Most b,*m,m groups who have a need
to communicate quickly and accurately tend to develop a
rather well specified subset of natural language that
is highly coded and precise in nature. Pilots and po-
lice are good examples of this. Even working groups
within a field or discipline tend over time to develop
a jargon that minimizes the effort of communication and
clarifies shared precise meanings.
It is not clear that there is any group of humans or
applications for computers that would be better served
in the long run by natural language interfaces. One
could provide such an interface for the purpose of ac-
climating a group or individual to a computer or in-
formation system environment but over the long run it
would be highly inefficient for a h,mAn to continue to
use such an interface and would in a real sense be a
disservice to the user. Those retrieval systems that
allow natural language like queries tend to also allow
the user to discover with practice the embedded inter-
face that allows very terse and concise requests to be
made of the system. Take the general example of COBOL,
which was designed as a language to input business
oriented programs into a computer that could be under-
stood by non-computer types. We find that if we don't
de,and that progrmmmers follow certain standards to
make this possible, they will make their programs
cryptic to the point where it is not understandable to
anyone but other progro,,mers.
It is interesting to observe that successful inter-
faces between persona and machines tend to be based
upon one or the other of the two extreme choices one
can make in designing a language. One is small, well
defined vocabularies from which one can build rather
long and complex expressions and the other is large
vocabularies with short expressions. In some sense,
"natural language" is the result of a compromise be-
tween these two opposing extremes. If we had same
better understanding of the cognitive dynamics that
shape and evolve natural language, perhaps the one
useful natural language interface that migjat be de-
veloped would allow individuals and groups to shape
their own personalized interface to a computer or in-
formation system. I em quite sure that given such a
powerful capability, what a group of users would end
up with would be very far from a natural language.
The argument is sometimes made that a natural language
interface might be useful for those who are linguisti-
cally disadvantaged. It might allow very young child-
ten or deaf persons to better utilize the computer. I
see it as immoral to provide a natural language intro-
duction to computers to people who might mistakenly
come to think of a computer as they would another hu-
man being. I would much prefer such individuals to be
introduced to the computer with an interface that will
give them some appreciation for the nature of the ma-
chine. For example, a very simple CAI language called
PILOT has been used to teach DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Official CMS Information for
Medicare Fee-For-Service Providers
R
Federally Qualied
Health Center
RURAL HEALTH FACT SHEET SERIES
This publication provides the following information
about Federally Qualied Health Centers (FQHC):
Background;
FQHC designation;
Covered FQHC services;
FQHC preventive primary services that are not
covered;
FQHC Prospective Payment System (PPS);
FQHC payments; and
Resources.
Background
The FQHC benet under Medicare was added
effective October 1, 1991, when Section 1861(aa) of
the Social Security Act (the Act) was amended by
Section 4161 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1990. FQHCs are “safety net” providers such as
community health centers, public housing centers,
outpatient health programs funded by the Indian
Health Service, and programs serving migrants and
the homeless. The main purpose of the FQHC
Program is to enhance the provision of primary care
services in underserved urban and rural communities.
Federally Qualied Health Center (FQHC) Designation
An entity may qualify as a FQHC if it:
Is receiving a grant under Section 330 of the Public
Health Service (PHS) Act;
Is receiving funding from a grant under a contract
with the recipient of a grant and meets the
requirements to receive a grant under Section 330
of the PHS Act;
Is not receiving a grant under Section 330 of the
PHS Act but is determined by the Secretary of the
Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to
meet the requirements for receiving such a grant
(i.e., qualies as a FQHC look-alike) based on the
recommendation of the Health Resources and
Services Administration;
ICN 006397 October 2012
Was treated by the Secretary of the Department of
HHS for purposes of Medicare Part B as a
comprehensive Federally funded health center as
of January 1, 1990; or
Is operating as an outpatient health program or
facility of a tribe or tribal organization under the
Indian Self-Determination Act or as an urban Indian
organization receiving funds under Title V of the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act as of
October 1, 1991.
Covered Federally Qualied Health Center (FQHC)
Services
Payments are made directly to the FQHC for covered
services furnished to Medicare patients. Services are
covered when furnished to a patient at the FQHC, the
patient’s place of residence, or elsewhere (e.g., at the
scene of an accident). A FQHC generally furnishes the
following services:
Physician services;
Services and supplies incident to the services of
physicians;
Nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA),
certied nurse-midwife (CNM), clinical psychologist
(CP), and clinical social worker (CSW) services;
Services and supplies incident to the services of
NPs, PAs, CNMs, CPs, and CSWs;
Visiting nurse services to the homebound in an
area where the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) has determined that there is a
shortage of Home Health Agencies;
Otherwise covered drugs that are furnished by, and
incident to, services of a FQHC provider; and
Outpatient diabetes self-management training and
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