Soldiers stationed in Eastern Europe have virtual access to healthcare from their provider or specialists at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center https://rhce.amedd.army.mil in Germany thanks to the Regional Health Command Europe (RHCE) use of the “TeleHealth in a Bag Platform” (THIAB). (more…)
Telemedicine Helps Parkinson’s Patients
It is projected that the number of people with Parkinson’s will double by 2030. Forty percent of people who have Parkinson’s disease do not see a neurologist soon after diagnosis which means that people with Parkinson’s are at significantly greater risk of falls leading to hip fractures. (more…)
Solving Patient Safety Issues
The NorthCrest Medical Center www.northcrest.com in Springfield Tennessee was able to use information available from the Agency for Health Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) “Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program” (CUSP) https://www.ahrq.gov used to address 24 patient safety problems. (more…)
Akonni Awarded Funds
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), acute respiratory infections are the third leading cause of deaths worldwide, accounting for 4.2 million deaths annually with more than 40 percent of children under the age of five. (more…)
Exploring Disease Connections
The National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) https://ncats.nih.gov within NIH is developing a computational platform to enable connections among data types. The aim is to bring these connections together to better understand disease and to come up with more effective treatment options. (more…)
Variety of Biosensors Growing
According to Dr. Seila Selimovic, a Biosensors Expert at NIH www.nih.gov, “The variety of biosensors used by researchers, clinicians, and people from every walk of life is growing.” Today new biosensor technologies can be combined with smart phone cameras and wireless signaling which enables health tests to be more portable and affordable than lab-based equipment. (more…)
North Carolina’s Design for Medicaid
In August, 2017, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) https://www.ncdhhs.gov published a report detailing their proposed program design for Medicaid managed care. DHHS is going to transition Medicaid from a fee-for-service structure to a managed care structure. DHHS is preparing to launch Medicaid managed care in 2019 and will work with stakeholders and experts to refine program details. (more…)