Health IT News from Federal Agencies and Capitol Hill – Edited by Carolyn Bloch
According to Lynda Flower, a Senior Strategic Policy Advisor for the health team at AARP’s Public Policy Institute, two-thirds of the states are integrating Medicare and Medicaid services for dual eligibles. Today, roughly 10.2 million peoples are dually eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare services and 7.4 million are eligible for both Medicare and full Medicaid benefits typically referred to as full benefit duals. (more…)
Researchers at the VA’s San Diego Healthcare System finds therapy delivered via video conferencing to be very effective in treating PTSD in veterans. According to the May issue of “VA Research Currents”, the VA studied 207 veterans in one of the largest studies done in the VA to test new ways of delivering evidence-based psychotherapy for veterans with PTSD. (more…)
Dr. Krisnan Chittur, a Chemical Engineering Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is designing a device to provide physicians one hour pathogen testing capabilities. The doctor can draw blood or take swab samples and send them to the lab. While waiting for the results, the patient may be treated based on an assessment of observed symptoms which sometimes can be less accurate than test results. (more…)
The Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology (ASET) office is responsible for implementing the ONC’s $9.3 million HIE cooperative agreement award for the state. ASET launched the HIE Enterprise Grant Program on April 22, 2013 to help large healthcare organizations standardize and promote interoperability for sharing clinical data. (more…)
Today, some of the pressing issues for hospitals include a shortage of specialists as well as an aging patient population that is going to need access to more specialist care in the future. Patients at academic medical centers and leading healthcare systems have been introduced to RP-VITA™ jointly developed by InTouch Health and iRobot. RP-VITA is a FDA cleared telemedicine robot combining state-of-the-art telecommunications and Auto Dive technology. (more…)
The University of New Mexico (UNM) will join Cleveland State University/Northeast Ohio Medical University, the University of Cincinnati, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the State University of New York to form U-HEALTH to act as anchor schools to drive necessary changes for local urban health equity. (more…)
