On July 24, 2017, HRSA www.hrsa.gov posted a notice seeking grants for a Funding Opportunity titled “Substance Abuse Treatment Telehealth Network Grant Program” (SAT-TNGP). Estimated total funding for $750,000 is available to fund three awards. …Continue reading
Highmark & AHN Investing Millions
Allegheny Health Network (AHN) www.ahn.org, a provider of innovative cancer care and Highmark Health www.hithmarkhealth.org an integrated healthcare delivery and financing network, are going to invest more than $200 million to provide more access to oncology services in Western Pennsylvania and other markets in Central Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. …Continue reading
Surveillance Tool in Liberia
Two analysts from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s (APL) www.jhuapl.edu traveled to Liberia last year to deploy APL-developed disease surveillance tools to help the country deal with future disease outbreaks. …Continue reading
HRSA Forecasts Grant Notice
In a notice posted June 29, 2017, HRSA www.hrsa.gov released information on forecast plans to release grant notice (HRSA-18-030) titled “Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program”. Total program funding is estimated to be $16,000,000. Estimated application due date is November 1, 2017 with the project to start May 1, 2018. …Continue reading
Rise in Diabetes in Ethnic Groups
The study published April 2017 in the New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org, reports that the trend in new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in youths under the age of 20 has increased within five major racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. …Continue reading
Expanding PSCIs at the VA
VA’s National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) www.patientsafety.va.gov leads the VA’s patient safety efforts throughout the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) www.va.gov/health, by offering expertise on patient safety and related healthcare issues. Patient safety officers at the VA’s 21 regional healthcare systems and patient safety managers at 153 VA medical centers and other large facilities participate in the program. …Continue reading
ORNL Helping St. Jude’s Hospital
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) www.ornl.gov managed by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science https://science.energy.go/oso, is helping St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital https://www.stjude.org understand and cure childhood diseases. ORNL is helping the scientists at the hospital deal with and mine the enormous amounts of data accumulated by the hospital received from powerful video microscopes. …Continue reading