Ten Army medical professionals are participating in a new program to enable doctors and nurses to train far away from combat support hospitals in austere locations. This new program will enable the ten Army doctors to train in two civilian teaching hospitals in the U.S. (more…)
Faster Response for Paramedics
When every second counts, monitoring the vital signs of all victims in a disaster or another type of chaotic situation can be difficult for emergency medical technicians and paramedics. Emergency medical help needs a way to easily monitor multiple patients on the scene, receive notifications when vital signs change for the worse, and be able to share the information when needed. (more…)
Broadband in Rural & Tribal Areas
An updated report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS)(https://www.loc.gov submitted to Congressional Members and Committees on January 2019, titled “Broadband Internet Access and the Digital Divide: Federal Assistance Programs”, looks at the state of broadband access across the U.S but also discusses broadband issues as they relate to rural and Tribal communities.
Treating Hep C via Telemedicine
White Mountain Community Health Center in New Hampshire http://www.whitemountainhealth.org and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Connected Care/Center for Telehealth https://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/connected-care.html serving communities in northern New England, have launched a new hepatology telemedicine service for Mount Washington Valley residents. (more…)
DLT 2019 Funding Announced
The USDA’s 2019 Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant program has been announced https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/distance-learning-telemedicine-grants. The 2019 DLT grant program includes two programs. One program is the “Traditional DLT FOA” and the second grant program seeking applications is called “DLT Opioid FOA”. (more…)
Interoperability Between Devices
The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program https://www.nitrd.gov with support from their National Coordination Office (NCO), and the National Science Foundation, https://www.nsf.gov has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on February 15, 2019. (more…)
Medical Device & IoT Summit Coming Soon
Today connectivity focus has shifted from clinical documentation of medical device data into the patient’s chart to capturing and consuming device data in a myriad of ways. Attend To address these issues, the Medical Device and IoT (mdiot) Summit will be held April 23-24, 2019 at The Inn at Longwood Medical in Boston http://tcbi.org/mdiot. (more…)