Sarah Dash President and CEO, for the Alliance for Health Policy, held a virtual Congressional Briefing, as part of the Alliance’s 2020 Signature Series: Disruptors and Transformers. The panel discussion centered on COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment. (more…)
Doximity’s Take on Telemedicine 2020
Credit Suisse https://credit-suisse.com discusses current thoughts from Doximity’s researchers that appear in the company’s 2020 State of Telemedicine Report. To develop the report, Doximity, https://doximity.com researchers were able to analyze data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and private claims data. (more…)
GSA Developing New GWAC
The General Services Administration (GSA) https://www.gsa.gov, is developing the next- generation Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) also to be known as Polaris the Guiding Star. Polaris will not only guide small businesses through the federal market, but also help GSA customer agencies acquire IT service-based solutions. (more…)
Workgroup to Tackle Interoperability
The Sequoia Project https://www.sequoiaproject.org, a non-profit and advocate for health information exchange, is launching the Data Usability Workgroup to tackle barriers to interoperability. There will be an open call for participation in advance of the first kick-off call on Thursday October 29 at 3:00 P.M. ET. (more…)
CAPP Discusses Telehealth Innovations
The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) https://accountablecaredoctors.org physician leaders delivered presentations on Innovations in Telehealth, Employer/Provider Collaborations at the 2020 Self-Insurance Institute of America’s (SIIA) https://siia.org annual conference held October 12-15, 2020. (more…)
CDC Posts Grant Notice
CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Prevention, and Surveillance (NCBDDD), posted the grant notice Advancing Population-Based Surveillance of Birth Defects (CDC-RFA-DD21-2101) on October 5, 2020, seeking to strengthen the capacity of existing surveillance programs and improve the health outcomes among affected populations. (more…)
USDA Invests $72 M in Rural Areas
USDA’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT grant program is providing $72 million for 116 projects to help healthcare and education institutions buy the equipment and software necessary to deploy needed services to residents in rural communities. These investments will benefit more than 12 million residents. (more…)