Governor Dannel Pl. Malloy announced that the State of Connecticut will receive a grant for $12.2 million to establish the state’s first statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) expected to be operational early 2019. The grant was awarded by CMS to the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) https://portal.ct.gov/ohs. …Continue reading
Neighborhoods Can Influence Health
For the first time, the government is making data publicly available to let people in the U.S see how where people live down can affect how long they may live. Although county, city, and zip code level data provides in-depth information, they often don’t tell the full story as neighborhoods right next to each other can experience drastically different opportunities for health and well-being. …Continue reading
Online Tool to Help in Emergencies
Purdue University (https://www.purdue.edu has developed a new online platform called the “Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit” known as SMART to help first responders monitor social media posts to find people in need of help and being rescued. …Continue reading
Federal Efforts to Modernize IT
A breakfast event held September 18, 2018 kicked off the Bethesda Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association’s (AFCEA) discussion on the Federal government’s efforts to modernize the IT infrastructure. …Continue reading
Telehealth to Combat Opioid Epidemic
Representative Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) https://lujan.house.gov has introduced the “Medicaid Substance Use Disorder Treatment via Telehealth Act”. This bill would provide states with options to leverage telehealth to increase services and treatments for Medicaid patients. …Continue reading
CancerLinQ’s 1st Certified EHR
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) https://www.asco.org oversees the development and operation of CancerLinQ® https://www.cancerlinq.org, a health information technology platform. CancerLinQ and Integra Connect https://www.integraconnect.com have an agreement to collaborate on products and services needed to provide access to the CancerLinQ platform. …Continue reading
VT Pilots to Manage Chronic Pain
Vermont Governor Phil Scott http://governor.vermont.gov is confronting the opioid epidemic in his state. In his testimony before Congress, the Governor outlined Vermont’s focus on Prevention, Recovery, Treatment, and Enforcement. …Continue reading