InTouch www.intouchhealth.com recently announced partnerships with North Carolina-based Mission Health http://mission-health.org and Pennsylvania-based Jefferson Health www.jeffersonhealth.org to jointly develop new telehealth solutions to improve patient access and quality of care while reducing overall healthcare costs. …Continue reading
New Program to Help Addicts
A new community outreach initiative spearheaded by Kraft Center for Community Health www.kraftcommunityhealth.org at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital is involved www.massgeneral.org, in a new program to help individuals deal with addiction and other complex health conditions. …Continue reading
Brain Scans Identify Stroke Patients
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) as part of NIH, in recent years, funded a study www.ninds.nih.gov to identify a greater number of stroke patients who will be able to receive therapy later than previously believed. …Continue reading
HHS Awards NextGen IT BPA
HHS https://www.hhs.gov Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) has awarded the second Next Generation Information Technology Services (NGITS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to ActioNet, CSRA, Leidos, NuAxis, Peraton (Harris IT) and SAIC. …Continue reading
PCORI Funding Clinical Trials
On January 16, 2018, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) https://www.pcori.org announced that PCORI will be funding pragmatic clinical trials, large simple trials, or large-scale observational studies to evaluate patient-centered outcomes. These studies will compare two or more alternatives for addressing prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or in managing disease or symptoms. …Continue reading
AHRQ’s New Request for Applications
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) https://www.ahrq.gov posted their Request for Application (RFA-HS-18-001) Notice on January 12, 2018 calling for the creation of Patient Safety Learning Laboratories. …Continue reading
CareDox Secures $16 Million
CareDox www.caredox.com with expertise in pediatric healthcare has closed a financing deal for $16 million to be co-led by AI Life Sciences Investments LLC and 7wire Ventures with additional investments from Digitalis, Prolog Ventures, StartUp Health, and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments. …Continue reading