The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality https://www.ahrq.gov within HHS has established the Division of Digital Healthcare Research https://www.digital.ahrq.gov. The Division will explore the enormous potential of data and digital research to generate new knowledge and tools that will be shareable, standards-based, publicly available, and whole-person oriented. (more…)
VP Northwell Hosted in NYC
Iris Berman, VP of Telehealth Services at Northwell Health https://www.northwell.edu was hosted at a small group investor meeting in New York City as part of Credit Suisse’s “Healthcare Disruptive Technologies & Innovations” (HDT&I) series https://www.credit-suisse.com. (more…)
Tech for Emergency Responders
The First Responder Network Authority or referred to as “FirstNet Authority” https://firstnet.gov is the nation’s public safety broadband network. The network was developed by the public safety community fighting for their own network because commercial carriers weren’t meeting their needs. (more…)
Funds for the NuCress Scaffold
The Department of Defense (DOD) https://www.defense.gov awarded a $5.6 million grant to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock https://ualr.edu to speed and advance the NuCress™ scaffold, a new bone generation technology. The NuCress scaffold is an implantable device that promotes controlled robust bone regeneration in fractures, gaps where bone is missing, and in the case of major injury defects, including previously untreatable catastrophic injuries. (more…)
HIEs Moving Volumes of Data
Community Health Information Exchanges (HIE) connect with community and social service organizations to move volumes of data, according to the first annual survey of HIEs by the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) https://www.strategichie.com. (more…)
AFCEA Holds HIT Summit
The Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association’s (AFCEA) Bethesda Chapter https://www.afceabethesda.org held their 12th annual Health IT Summit which brought together more than a thousand senior executives and technology professionals from government and industry. (more…)
Telemedicine Helping Senior Care
Avera eCARE’s https://www.averaecare.org Senior Care, uses telemedicine to help teams at their skilled nursing facilities as well as at sites offering long-term care and assisted living in the U.S. Today, they are having good results with minimal investment. (more…)