The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) https://www.osehra.org released a White Paper in April describing what a national healthcare IT infrastructure might look like if the Veterans Administration (VA) www.va.gov choses to take a leadership role. (more…)
Increasing Broadband in Rural Areas
In April, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) www.klobuchar.senate.gov Co-Chair of the bipartisan Senate Broadband Caucus and Senator Deb Fisher (R-NE) www.fischer.senate.gov led a group of 56 senators to urge the FCC www.fcc.gov to continue to advance broadband deployment in rural communities. In a letter to FCC Chairman Pai, Commissioner O’Rielly, and Commissioner Clyburn, the senators expressed concerns about the high cost of these critical services in many rural areas. (more…)
Launch of Multi-Functional Platform
Witty Health Inc., www.wittyhealth.com a Houston-based mostly physician-owned company has developed a patent-pending device and video-enabled, real-time, Remote Health Risk Monitoring Platform. (more…)
NIH Funds 7 Malaria Research Centers
The World Health Organization (WHO) www.who.int estimates that 212 million new cases of malaria and 29,000 malaria deaths occurred in 2016, mostly in Africa. Although numerous vaccine candidates to prevent malaria are in development, none have been approved for widespread use. (more…)
What Works Best for the Patient?
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) https://bipartisanpolicy.org April 18th event discussed the importance of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) and how CER can help doctors and patients choose the best possible options for medical treatments. (more…)
Grants to Deal with Opioid Crisis
HHS Secretary Tom Price M.D announced that HHS www.hhs.gov will provide $485 million in grants to help states and territories combat opioid addiction. The funding will be provided through the State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grants administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (SAMHSA) www.samhsa.gov. (more…)
FDA Clears Digital Pathology System
Royal Philips www.usa.philips.com has received regulatory clearance form FDA www.fda.gov to market its IntelliSite Solution, a digital pathology system. This is the first and currently only digital pathology system to receive clearance for primary diagnostic purposes that can be used to study digital images of surgical pathology slides. (more…)