More than 1,000 senior executives and IT professionals from across industry and government gathered January 16th at the North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda Maryland to attend the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA) Bethesda Chapter’s Health IT Day https://Bethesda.afceachapters.org. (more…)
Virtual Nurse Assists Care Transition
The last decade has seen a steady increase in the resources that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) https://www.va.gov/health uses to treat Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) and COPD. (more…)
Governor’s “State of the State” Speech
In his January 9, 2018 “State of the State” speech given January 9, 2018, Governor Eric Holcomb of Indiana stressed that it is very important for not only for Indiana but for the country to address the opioid epidemic. (more…)
DHS Pilot to Secure Apps
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology has established a pilot project to automate and incorporate security. This pilot project will entail designing up-to-date security tools for mobile apps to assist developers, analysts, and security and network operators. (more…)
Grant Funding Approved for Projects
The Board of Trustees of St. Luke’s Foundation in December 2017 www.saintlukesfoundation.org approved grants for $2,603,486 for their third round of 2017 grants to go to 17 organizations. The funding will be used to advance the Foundation’s priorities for several projects including funds for keeping people healthy, developing strong neighborhoods, and support for keeping families resilient.
Center for Health Innovation Opens
With more than $20 million from NIH https://www.nih.gov plus other sources both public and private, Northwell Health www.northwell.edu in New York will be pioneering discoveries by using cutting edge technology and big data to work for patients at their new $20,000 square foot $15 million facility called the “Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research”, a part of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research www.feinsteininstitute.org. (more…)
Global Partnership to Deliver Virtual Care
Royal Philips https://www.philips.com/global and American Well www.americanwell.com are connecting consumers with care professionals has signed a strategic partnership to enable both the organizations to effectively and securely deliver virtual care solutions worldwide. (more…)