Ambra Health’s www.ambriscloud.com archive provides instant access to secondary versions of medical images and priors of primary data when available to the cloud-based medical image management suite. (more…)
Devices to Assess Brain Trauma
The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center https://dvbic.dcoe.mil estimates that nearly 380,000 service members have sustained brain injuries since 2000. The Army Medical Research and Materiel Command https://www.usammda.army.mil has coordinated testing for two medical devices including “BrainScope One ®” and the “Infrascanner 2000 ™” to quickly and effectively assess the existence and relative severity of brain trauma before a patient reaches advanced hospital care. (more…)
December Issue Devoted to Telehealth
Several authors of articles appearing in the Health Affairs December Issue dedicated to Telehealth, www.healthaffairs.org spoke at the National Press Club recently to present their ideas and thoughts on the extensive reach of telehealth to continually provide better healthcare to populated but also rural communities. (more…)
Integrating Care for the Mentally Ill
Pennsylvania is working with organizations to develop a learning collaborative to improve the well-being of patients with serious mental illness especially in rural communities. (more…)
Call9 Provides Urgent Care
CMS recently released data highlighting facility specific performance information for the “Skilled Nursing Value-Based Purchasing Program” at Central Island Healthcare (CIH) https://www.centralislandhealthcae.com located in Plainview New York. (more…)
Effective AR Prescribing via Telehealth
Teledoc Health https://www.teledochealth.com is working with the University of Southern California (USC) Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and Northwestern University to develop the first large scale study to assess antibiotic prescribing practices used in telehealth. (more…)
IHS Upgrading Technology & Data
The Indian Health Services (IHS) https://www.ihs.gov within HHS, provides a comprehensive health delivery system for approximately 2.3 American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) in partnership with the 573 federally recognized Tribes. Several action are underway to improve services and quality serving the American Indian and Alaska Natives population in order to upgrade technology especially in rural communities. (more…)