In 2009, President Obama signed into law the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which was part of the federal stimulus legislation.

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Subjects affected are identified as engineering, information technology, health and nursing studies, law, business, maths and chemistry.

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Recent advances in information technology mean that it is no longer only law professors, lawyers and judges who consider whether an utterance is offensive.

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Employers are already crying out for a relaxation of the law, to let in foreign specialists to meet shortages in such fields as information technology, engineering and biotechnology.

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De-emphasizing costly issues of supply, the program is focusing on three logistical bottlenecks: huge gaps in land law that make it impossible to guarantee investments, lack of information technology in the rural areas that make coordination and transport impossible, and the energy poverty of these same areas.

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