Providing care for children with mental issues in rural communities can be challenging. A recent CDC www.cdc.gov study found that children in rural areas with Mental, Behavioral, and Developmental Disorders (MBDD) face more community and family challenges than children in urban areas with the same disorders. (more…)
Healthcost Website Brings Choices
Believing that a free, transparent healthcare marketplace could complement traditional plan-based solutions for consumers, HealthCost was formed when six colleagues joined forces in 2016. The colleagues had different backgrounds but all wanted the tech startup to bring simple, borderless, and market driven choices to every consumer for the most common healthcare needs. (more…)
Legislation Introduced
Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) Roger Wicker (R-MS), Thad Cochran R-MS), Ben Cardin (D-MD), John Thune (R-SD), and Mark Warner (D-VA) on May 3, 2017 introduced the “Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2017.” www.congress.gov. (more…)
Air Force Tech to Help Civilians
At a training exercise conducted several years ago, researchers form the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl asked air combat commanders to outline their biggest challenge. Commanders expressed the most concern over confusion that is caused by large amounts of radio traffic. This can be a serious problem for not only the Air Force but also for emergency crisis management in communities. (more…)
Increasing Access to EMRs
AcademyHealth www.academyhealth.org has announced that Tom Delbanco MD and Jan Walker, R.N. MBA and their colleagues are the winners of this year’s Health Data Liberator award. The award recognizes the team’s work on “OpenNotes” www.opennotes.org, an initiative to encourage healthcare providers to share their visit notes with patients. (more…)
swyMed Receives Patent
The USPTO www.uspto.gov has issued a patent to swyMed http://swymedical.swyme.com to enable real-time video telemedicine to be used at anytime and anywhere in the world. A barrier within the telemedicine market today is that it is necessary for bandwidth to reliably conduct video encounters for real-time telemedicine outside of the hospital or clinic. (more…)
U.S & Canada Announce Competitions
Public health experts have traditionally relied on self-reported data from online questionnaires, in-person interviews, and telephone surveys to gain insight into a population’s health. However, real-time data sources are emerging with greater potential to provide a more accurate and complete picture of human health. (more…)