The Westchester Medical Center Health (WMCHealth) Network works with telemedicine https://www.westchestermedicalcenter.com. WMCHealth a 1,700 bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla New York consists of ten hospitals across 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. (more…)
Eye Surveillance System Launched
An estimated 62 million adults in the U.S are at high risk for serious vision loss which means that the economic impact of major vision problems among Americans older that 40 is expected to be more than $145 billion. (more…)
PCORI & AHA to Establish Center
It is sometimes difficult to understand complex medical information but for patients with AFib, it can be especially difficult. If a patient decides to take drugs then the patient and doctor need to have a conversation on what specific drugs to take. (more…)
DOD to Streamline HIT
Mark Goodge, Chief Technology Officer for the Military Health System speaking at the Defense Health IT Symposium in Orlando in July explained, “The Defense Health Agency’s “Desktop to Datacenter Baseline” (D2D) https://www.health.mil/dha initiative is going to streamline health IT service across the Military Health System (MHS) https://www.health.mil. The plan is to provide standard platform security desktops and IT services to be used in every military treatment facility in the MHS.” (more…)
eHI & Validic Report Released
A new report released by the eHealth Initiative https://www.ehidc.org and Validic https://validic.com titled “ROI of Patient-Generated Health Data & Remote Patient Monitoring” delves into the financial, operational, and clinical returns on investing with perspectives from providers, technologists, regulators, along with a patient’s viewpoint.
Summit Highlights Open Source Innovation
Seong K. Mun PhD, President and CEO, OSEHRA opened the 2018 Open Source Summit http://summit.osehra.org, July 18-19 in Bethesda Maryland, to showcase how widespread and useful open source code is today and will be in the future. (more…)
NIH’s Initiative with Google Cloud
NIH https://www.nih.gov has just launched the STRIDES initiative to harness the power of commercial cloud computing to provide NIH biomedical researchers access to advanced cost effective computational infrastructure tools, and services. (more…)