Today more than 1,250 hospitals, 35,000 clinics, and 600,000 healthcare providers are connected through Carequality www.carequality.org, an initiative of The Sequoia Project. Carequality enables the exchange of data between and among health data sharing networks. (more…)
Summit: Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs
West Health Institute’s “Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit” (HCI/DC 2018) www.hcidc.org gathered leaders representing many sectors of healthcare on February 21 2018 in Washington D.C. The speakers and attendees focused on spotlighting the best ideas, innovations, and practical policy solutions to find ways to deal with the immediate healthcare cost crisis in America. They all are in agreement that bold actions need to take place. (more…)
$15 Million Grant to Study Viral Outbreaks
NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) https://www.niaid.nih.gov has provided The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) www.scripps.edu, a not-for-profit organization, focused on research in the biomedical sciences with a new $15 million grant (1U19AI135995) to study survivors of viral outbreaks. (more…)
Role of Government in HIT & Digital Health
Today, about 90 percent or more of the nation’s hospitals and physicians have adopted EHRs with digital health exploding beyond the use of EHRs. This includes using data to assess, manage, and predict health outcomes requiring the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence along with the use of other new electronic methods to more effectively deliver care and manage health. (more…)
USDA Helps Rural Communities
The USDA Rural Development https://www.rd.usda.gov program has focused on modernizing the telecommunications infrastructure, identifying support for innovation in rural areas, and showing how the use of telehealth can successfully help treat rural stroke patients. (more…)
Eye Exams Using Telehealth
Paul Graves, State Representative from Washington contacted the FTC https://www.ftc.gov to get their thoughts on the impact that the proposed State Bill 5411H.B, 1473 (The Bill) would have on Washington State consumers and the market in general. (more…)
VA & DeepMind Partnering
The Department of Veterans Affairs https://www.va.gov has approved a medical research partnership with DeepMind https://deepmind.com to address patient deterioration during hospital care which accounts for eleven percent of in-hospital deaths worldwide. (more…)