The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology awarded Metronome Software $749,930 to strengthen security for first responder mobile device-based sensor systems. (more…)
World Bank Financing Bangladesh
The government of Bangladesh has signed a $15 million financing agreement with the World Bank www.worldbank.org to improve the country’s health, nutrition, and population serves. The Health Sector Support Project will help strengthen the country’s health system by improving quality and coverage of essential services and help to enhance equity especially where key health indicators are below national averages. (more…)
Drones to Help in Emergencies
In the future, drone technologies could be deployed to allow citizen scientists plus residents in rural and urban areas to assist first responders in managing disasters at a more rapid or even real-time pace. (more…)
Johns Hopkins Expands Telemedicine
“There are many successful telemedicine projects taking place at Johns Hopkins which is just the beginning”, said, Rebecca Canino, Administrative Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Telemedicine www.hopkinsmedicine.org as reported in the current issue of the Johns Hopkins publication DOME. (more…)
NYS Needs to Invest in LTPAC
In August, LeadingAge of New York www.leadingage.org representing nearly 500 not-for-profit and public providers of Long-Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC), and the Adult Day Health Care Council (ADHCC), sent a letter to Daniel Sheppard, Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Primary Care & Health Systems Management at the New York State (NYS) Department of Health www.health.ny.gov. (more…)
Telemedicine Helps Sepsis Care
It has been shown that sepsis patients in rural low-volume hospitals have worse outcomes than patients treated at high volume hospitals and inter-hospital transfers to high volume centers does not change this disparity. (more…)
Support for VA-PALS Open Source
The Department of Veterans Affairs www.va.gov is now partnering and participating in the “Implementation Network for the VA-Partnership to Increase Access to Lung Screening” or referred to as (VA-PALS). This three year project to be funded by the Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation, is a strategy to deploy VistA-based lung cancer screening management software at ten VA Medical Centers. (more…)