The Medi-Cal 2020 Section 1115 waiver created a five year up to $1.5 billion federally funded pilot program and provided $1.5 billion from local funds through intergovernmental transfers to be used to test county-based initiatives to coordinate health, behavioral health, and social services. (more…)
Updating Mobile Technology for LMICs
NIH’s Funding Notice posted November 30, 2017 titled “Mobile Health: Technology and Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries” (LMIC) proposes to develop, upgrade, or adapt mobile health technology for countries in need of improved mHealth technology. (more…)
NGA Addresses Complex Care Issues
National Governors Association’s (NGA) https://www.nga.org Center for Best Practices, Health Division plus several expert leaders from Michigan and West Virginia gathered at the National Press Club on December 5, 2017 to address the problems associated with dealing with the issues affecting the populations in their states that require complex care. (more…)
Federal Partners Discuss Health IT
The HHS Office of the National Coordinator’s www.healthit.gov 2017 Annual Meeting held in Washington D.C November 30-December 1, 2017, featured keynotes, panels, and breakout sessions discussing many issues related to interoperability and usability. (more…)
Telehealth for Underserved Populations
Intermountain Healthcare https://intermountainhealthcare.org, United Way of Salt Lake, https://uw.org and Promise South Salt Lake www.southsaltlakecity.com have started using are telehealth to help provide care in underserved populations. The partners have opened a telehealth kiosk to provide low-cost care to underserved populations in the City of South Salt Lake. (more…)
Bioelectronic Device Wins Challenge
Northwell Health https://www.northwell.edu held an Innovation Challenge, a system-wide call to all employees to present new ideas. NeuroGuard a bioelectronic device, won the award for the device developed by Chad Bouton Director of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research’s Center for Bioelectronic Medicine and Mohamed Ahmed MD, PhD, Neonatal Perinatal Research Director at the Feinstein Institute http://www.feinsteininstitute.org. (more…)
POCUS Used to Monitor Patients
Internal medicine physicians and residents are starting to make their hospital rounds with Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) to help make diagnoses. POCUS has been around for about two decades in emergency rooms, however, in the past five to ten years, it has been increasingly used in other areas of medicine. (more…)