ImageMoverMD https://www.imagemovermd.com is a medical imaging software company able to connect photos, videos, and outside medical images with EHR systems. The company recently announced that they have raised $4 million in financing led by Bain Capital Ventures https://www.baincapitalventures.com, Cultivation Capital http://www.cultivationcapital.com, and Health X Ventures http://www.healthxventures.com, to grow their network of customers and to expand their technology offerings. (more…)
HRSA’s New Funding Opportunity
HRSA’s https://www.hrsa.gov Office of Rural Health Policy provides funds under the “Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Program” (HRSA-19-018) referred to as the “FY 2019 Rural Quality Program”. The goal is to support planning and implementation of quality improvement activities for rural primary care providers or providers of healthcare services. (more…)
UVA Providing Care via Telehealth
A new program including the use of telehealth enables the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System https://uvahealth.com to team up with primary care providers in the Appalachian region of Virginia with the goal to improve lung disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. (more…)
Bills to Improve Access to Rural Healthcare
Representatives Terri Sewell (D-AL) https://sewell.house.gov and Adrian Smith (R-NE) https://adriansmith.house.gov are both members of the House Ways and Means Committee and represent rural congressional districts. Together on in early February, the Representatives introduced two bills to improve rural access to healthcare. (more…)
Non-Invasive Device Measures Glucose
Another project underway to help people with diabetes measure glucose, has the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) https://www.nibib.nih.gov with collaborators at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, developing a non-invasive device that could potentially be effective at measuring blood glucose levels as the standard finger prick is today. (more…)
Partnership Helps in South Dakota
According to reports, a number of patients do not always take their medications as prescribed and patients with chronic illnesses have the lowest adherence rates. This is particularly challenging in rural South Dakota where two thirds of the counties have a healthcare professional shortage and the nearest pharmacy might be an hour’s drive away. (more…)
HHS Testing New Ambulance Payments
Health and Human Services https://www.hhs.gov within their Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/et3 tests innovative payment and service delivery models to lower costs and improve quality of care. (more…)