The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) https://www.ahrq.gov has launched their “AHRQ Step-Up App Challenge”, a three phase competition to address the need for greater use of standardized Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) data in clinical care and research. The total prize pool for the challenge is $250,000. (more…)
HRSA Forecasts Delta Grants
HRSA https://www.hrsa.gov posted the forecasted grant notice (HRSA-19-017) on August 3, 2018 by releasing HRSA’s “Delta States Rural Development Network Program” opportunity notice anticipated to be posted January 24, 2019 with total program funding anticipated to be $9,600,000. (more…)
Duke Provides Grants to Atrium
Three grants totaling $1.8 million funded by The Duke Endowment http://dukeendownment.org will enable Atrium Health https://www.carolinashealthcare.org previously called the Carolinas HealthCare System, to provide a full spectrum of healthcare and wellness programs throughout North and South Carolina. The funding will enable Atrium to address population health but also improve access to cardiac care, and pediatric dental care. (more…)
Tele-Nephrology Helps Patients
The University of Cincinnati (UC) Division of Nephrology, in 2016 launched the “Clinical Advancement, Research and Education” or referred to as the “Kidney C.A.R.E. Program” at the Meadowview Regional Medical Center in Maysville Kentucky. Last month, the program was expanded to the Margaret Mary Hospital (MMH) in Batesville, Indiana. (more…)
Vivo Health’s Mail Order Program
Vivo Health Pharmacy https://www.vivohealthpharmacy.com has launched their prescription medication mail order program to serve more than 66,000 eligible employees who work for Northwell Health https://www.northwell.edu which is New York State’s largest private employer. (more…)
Microsoft Award to Expand Telehealth
Microsoft Corp, https://www.microsoft.com recently selected Numbers4Health, a start-up, https://numbers4health.com to be one of the winners of a “Microsoft Airband Grant” to expand their telehealth solution in rural Texas. Numbers4Health provides information and software to encourage the increased use of telehealth solutions to rural communities. (more…)
Technology Helps Opioid Withdrawal
Physicians at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center https://wexnermedical.osu.edu are purchasing and using new technologies to help patients withdraw from opioids. The medical center recently purchased the NSS-2 BRIDGE device from the Indiana-based medical technology firm Innovative Health Solutions, Inc. (IHS). The BRIDGE a percutaneous nerve-field stimulator helps reduce symptoms of opioid withdrawal. (more…)