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Policy Priorities

In the 21st century, our health, education, economy, national and homeland security and environment are all dependent on innovative technologies and policies. Innovation Now is a campaign by the technology community designed to spur our nation's leaders to enact a comprehensive Technology Agenda for America.

Grassroots: TechAmerica Board Members at a Meeting in the White House

Innovation Now: A Technology Agenda for America

As members of the technology community, we call upon our nation's leaders to enact the following Innovation Now agenda items:

Health. Invest in innovative health information technologies that will transform health care quality, reduce medical errors, and make health care more accessible to our citizens by reducing health care costs.
Jobs, Education and Training. Ensure a competitive 21st century workforce through comprehensive education reform and initiatives to strengthen lifelong learning opportunities.
Government Management. Improve overall government effectiveness through the adoption of innovative technologies and by ensuring that the government attracts and retains qualified personnel.
National Security. Ensure that the men and women in our nation's armed forces are equipped with the latest and highest quality technology in a timely fashion.
Homeland Security. Support innovative technology solutions that play a critical role in securing the homeland while safeguarding personal privacy.
Green. Promote the use of technology-based solutions as a means toward solving our nation's energy challenge and contributing to practical strategies for mitigating climate change.
Research and Development. Double public sector investment in basic R&D over 10 years; enact tax and incentive policies that will increase private sector investment in R&D.
Cyber security. Protect our nation's technology infrastructure and ensure that citizens are shielded from cyber hackers and attackers.
Immigration. Strengthen our economy by fixing America's broken skilled immigration system.
Broadband. Meet our nation's broadband challenge through innovative solutions that will make this technology available to all Americans.
Trade. Implement an innovation-based national trade policy.
Patent Reform. Enact meaningful patent reform that will drive innovation.

For additional information on the Innovation Agenda, please contact Kim Allman, Senior Vice President, State Government Affairs, & Interim Director of Government Affairs at 202.682.4450.

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Government Affairs
TechAmerica is the voice for the high-tech industry for state, federal, and international public policy. As a member driven organization, our priorities represent the business interests of technology companies – large and small – such as broadband, competitiveness, e-commerce, education, environment, government procurement, healthcare, immigration, IP, privacy, tax, trade, and more.

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Federal Health IT Committee and ICD-10 Working Group
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This Committee offers federal health IT initiatives, activities and services to help members track developments in the area of health technology, and to represent the IT industry in health IT and related debates. As many government agencies are now looking to dramatically increase expenditures in this area, extra diligence must be paid to provide assistance [...]
Tech Industry Applauds Broadband Policy Progress
Washington, DC (July 14, 2009) –The technology industry today applauded Congress for recent measures designed to encourage greater deployment of broadband Internet services and encouraged lawmakers to avoid one-size-fits-all solutions in future legislation.

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Health IT
Advocacy: Phil Bond, President & CEO, TechAmerica, and Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, speak at a TechAmerica & CCA panel on building the Health IT workforce in the U.S. Capitol (L-R).
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This Committee offers federal health IT initiatives, activities and services to help members track developments in the area of health technology, and to represent [...]
TechAmerica Applauds Announcement of IT Provisions in Healthcare Reform Bill
Contact:
Anne Caliguiri at 703.284.5305 or anne.caliguiri@techamerica.org
Charlie Greenwald at 202.682.4443 or charlie.greenwald@techamerica.org

Washington, DC (October 14, 2009)– TechAmerica today issued the following statement praising the Senate Finance Committee for approving a healthcare reform package that draws on the power of information technology to help ensure health insurance for all Americans and [...]

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