Deep Dive for Health Systems: Telehealth Policy Developments will be discussed at a one day meeting on November 15, 2018 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm in Washington D.C at the Hall of States at 444 North Capitol Street to be presented by the Alliance for Connected Care http://www.connectwithcare.org. (more…)
Avera Health Receives $7.8 Million
Avera Health https://www.averaecare.org based in Sioux Falls South Dakota, has received a three year grant for $7.8 million from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust https://www.helmsleytrust.org. The funding will be used to build a 24 hour telemedicine behavioral health team as part of Avera eCARE. The team will enable patients to have timely patient-centered care, plus cost-effective and high quality behavioral health services via telemedicine. (more…)
Hub to Speed Up Commercialization
West Virginia University (WVU) https://www.wvu.edu along with 23 other regional institutions are in the process of creating a virtual hub that will help to speed the commercialization for groundbreaking university research. (more…)
Merger to Produce Value-Based Care
Mingle Analytics Inc., https://mingleanalytics.com providing Medicare quality reporting and SilverVue, Inc. https://www.silvervue.com, a supplier of care management software headquartered in Utah, have merged to focus on transforming value-based healthcare delivery by addressing quality reporting. (more…)
State Forming Pediatric Health Network
The Alabama Department of Mental Health (ADMH) http://www.nh.alabama.gov and Children’s of Alabama http://childrensal.org were awarded $2,009,323 from HRSA to establish a pediatric telemental health network to serve children and their families living in rural parts of the State. (more…)
Medicaid Highlights at Briefing
The Alliance for Health Policy http://www.allhealthpolicy.org with support from the Commonwealth Fund https://www.commonwealthfund.org, on October 19th held a Capitol Hill briefing to discuss flexibility and innovation in Medicaid. A panel discussing Medicaid issues along with several leaders from State Medicaid programs, noted the recent changes involving Medicaid programs. (more…)
Protecting Networks & the Internet
The Department of Homeland Security within their Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology has awarded close to $11.6 million to develop new methods to identify weaknesses in networks and the internet. (more…)