The Army Medical Research and Development Command’s USAMRDC Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center’s (TATRC) in response to COVID-19 on June 15, awarded funds to nine clinical and technical teams to support the rapid development, deployment, and testing of the National Emergency Tele-Critical Care Network (NETCCN). …Continue reading
CIT Gap Invests in MetiStream
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) https://www.citgapfunds.org recently announced that CIT GAP Funds has made a follow-on investment in Vienna, Virginia-based MetiStream https://www.metistream.com. The company is the developer of a platform that uses big data, Natural language Processing (NLP), and Machine Learning to reveal hidden insights in unstructured clinical data. …Continue reading
NQF’s Task Force issues Roadmap
The National Quality Forum (NQF) https://qualityforum.org/home.aspx on June 24, 2020 released The Care We Need: Driving Better Health Outcomes for People and Communities, a National Quality Task Force report providing a roadmap to consistent and predictable high-quality care for everyone by 2030. …Continue reading
FCC’s Funds New Applications
On June 10, 2020, the FCC approved an additional 67 funding applications totaling $20.18 million for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth program has approved funding for 305 healthcare providers in 42 states plus Washington D.C for a total of $104.98 million. …Continue reading
Advocates for Value-Based Care
The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy https://healthpolicy.duke.edu and West Health https://www.westhealth.org are going to collaborate on a three year research initiative to advance and accelerate value-based payment reform in the U.S healthcare system. …Continue reading
Company Focused on Telehealth
Credit Suisse https://www.credit.org as part of their “Healthcare Disruptive Technologies and Innovations Series” hosted Joe Brennan, Founder of Moonshot Health Consulting, a company focused exclusively on telehealth at a virtual meeting with a group of investors. Before starting Moonshot Health Consulting, https://moonshot-health.com he served as the Senior Director of MedNow, the telehealth division of a 15 hospital, nonprofit health system based in Western Michigan. …Continue reading
Technology to Fight COVID-19
A team of scientists from Stanford University https://stanford.edu are working with researchers at the Molecular Foundry https://foundry.lbl.gov, a nanoscience user facility, located at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory https://lbl.gov. The goal is to develop a gene-targeting antiviral agent to use against COVID-19. …Continue reading