Chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States as well as a major driver of increasing health care costs. The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD), a coalition of patient, provider, and community organizations, as well as experts in the field, has a goal of raising awareness of this problem.

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ANA recently submitted comments urging CMS, Congress, and the Administration to allow APRNs – and all healthcare providers – to qualify for a portion of the billions of dollars in incentives for adopting health information technology/electronic health records systems under the federal Medicare/Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Program.

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