Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC Health) http://muschealth.org has signed an alliance with the Hampton Regional Medical Center (HRMC) http://www.hamptonregional.org to help transform how rural healthcare is delivered in South Carolina. …Continue reading
3-D Printing Transforming Medicine
Nextgov https://www.nextgov.com, as part of the Tech Talks Series, held their “Emerging TECH Summit” https://#EmergingTechSummit August 14, 2019. Beth Ripley MD, PhD, Senior Innovation Fellow Department of Veterans Affairs, and Chair of the 3D Printing Advisory Committee at the Veterans Health Administration https://www.va.gov/health, highlighted how important a role 3-D printing is playing today in medicine. …Continue reading
PHDA Teams Up with AWS
The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) https://healthdataalliance.com formed in 2015, is working closely with Amazon Web Services (AWS), https://aws.amazon.com through a machine learning research sponsorship. The goal is to advance innovation in cancer diagnostics, precision medicine, voice-enabled technologies, and medical imaging. …Continue reading
Company Transforming Healthcare
As part of Credit Suisse’s “Healthcare Disruptive Technologies & Innovations” series https://www.credit-suisse.com, One Medical https://www.onemedical.com, a member-based intelligent national primary care organization, took part in a small group investor lunch meeting in Boston with the President and CEO. Amir Dan Rubin, and CFO Bjorn Thaler. …Continue reading
Briefing on MHS Transformation
The “Defense Health Information Technology Symposium” (DTIS) held July 31, 2019, https://dha.dtis.com sponsored by the Defense Health Agency https://www.health.mil, discussed the opportunities and challenges in integrating medical devices with MHS GENESIS. …Continue reading
Telehealth for Rural Communities
The FCC’s https://www.fcc.gov Report “Promoting Telehealth in Rural America”, discusses how the FCC’s Rural Health Care (RHC) https://www.fcc.gov/general/rural-health-care-program program is helping rural healthcare providers obtain broadband and other services involving communications at discounted rates. …Continue reading
State to Rein in Healthcare Costs
State Senate Bill 889 recently passed in Oregon would establish Oregon https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/measures/overview/sB889 as the fourth state to set a spending benchmark to rein in the rising costs of healthcare. Modeled after a program in Massachusetts, SB 889 creates the “Oregon Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark Program”. …Continue reading