Highmark Health https://www.highmarkhealth.org and Google Cloud https://cloud.google.com have announced a six year strategic partnership to build and maintain the innovation needed to develop Highmark’s Living Health https://living.health.org model. The model is designed to free clinicians from time-consuming administrative tasks while providing timely data and actionable information on each patient.
JHU Addressing Behavioral Health
Johns Hopkins Medicine https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org is collaborating on a $45 million grant to change the way communities respond to a behavioral health crisis. People who experience a substance use and/or mental health crisis are often met by emergency teams poorly equipped to respond to their mental health issues. …Continue reading
AMZN to Offer Online Care to Large Employers
According to Credit Suisse, https://www.credit-suisse.com it was reported on December 16, that Amazon (AMZN) https://www.amazon.com is looking to offer online and in-person care for other large employers. This move would be an extension of Amazon Care, a health benefit currently offered to AMZN employees across Washington State. …Continue reading
GAO & NAM Discuss Healthcare
The report Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Technologies to Augment Patient Care (November 2020) https://gao.gov/assets/720/710920.pdf, was jointly published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) https://nasonline.org. …Continue reading
Grant Funds to Help the Disabled
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) https://acl.gov Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)Program (Phase l) within HHS, provides funding for research and/or development to improve the abilities of individuals with disabilities to participate in their communities. ACL awards more than one billion in grants primary to state and local governments, nonprofits, institutes of higher educations, and small businesses. …Continue reading
Increasing Pediatric Vaccinations
Melissa Stockwell, M.D, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons https://ps.columbia.edu, with funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), https://www.ahrq.gov began her research in 2009 with grant funding from AHRQ. …Continue reading
Future Robots to Help Nurses
CDC https://www.cdc.gov awarded $1.5 million over 3 years to the University of Illinois at Chicago https://uic.edu and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) https://www.wpi.edu for projects aimed at reducing workers’ exposures to hazards through the development and use of robots or co-robots. …Continue reading