Appearing before the House Committee on Appropriations http://appropriations.house.gov, Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies on May 3, 2017, Secretary of Veterans Affairs www.va.gov David J. Shulkin discussed the VA’s efforts to address EHR interoperability and IT modernization. …Continue reading
AMC & URMC Studying Telehealth
AMC Health www.amchealth.com, in collaboration with the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) www.urmc.rochester.edu recently announced their interim study results related to telehealth conducted on subjects with Parkinson’s Disease. The results were presented at the American Academy of Neurology https://www.aan.com in April. …Continue reading
VA Advancing Genomic Research
The Veterans Administration (VA) “Million Veterans Program” (MVP) www.research.va.gov/mvp is one of the VA’s initiatives to advance genomic research. Over 550,000 veterans have enrolled in MVP as of early spring 2017 and now MVP is the world’s largest genomic database tied to a healthcare system. The VA predicts that a million veterans will be enrolled by 2020. …Continue reading
Ohio Helping Innovators
In Ohio, https://development.ohio.gov/bs_thirdfrontier, the Third Frontier Commission is going to provide $10 million to help innovators create new products, advance technologies, and build new startup businesses. The Ohio Third Frontier’s “Entrepreneurial Services Provider” (ESP) Program https://thirdfrontier.com/bs_thirdfrontier/esp.htm provides resources in the state to help entrepreneurs get their ideas to the market place.
Verato’s Patient Identity Solution
A critical weakness in U.S. healthcare today is the inability for healthcare organizations to coordinate patient care. The exchange of clinical information across organizations is currently very difficult as conventional Master Patient Index (MPI) technologies are unable to unambiguously identify common patients. …Continue reading
Alaska Passes Resolution
In April 2017, the Alaska Legislature www.akleg.gov passed the resolution (HJR 14) calling for additional federal resources to help expand access to telehealth in rural Alaska. The bill sponsored by Alaska’s Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon http://akhouse.org/rep-edgmon represents many remote communities in Southwest Alaska. …Continue reading
VA & DOE Partnering on Big Data
The VA www.research.va.gov and the Department of Energy (DOE) https://energy.gov have formed a new partnership focused on the secure analysis of large digital health and genomic data, or “big data” from the VA and other federal sources. …Continue reading