For the last 15 years, improvised explosive devices better known as IEDs on the battlefield have produced massive contaminated wounds. Their slow healing nature makes the wounds more susceptible to infections with many bugs already deposited into the site at the point of the injury. (more…)
Expanding Digital Maternal Care
Monitoring expectant mothers and their babies before and during childbirth is not only vital but at times, a complicated task. GE Healthcare www.gehealthcare.com is expanding their Maternal Infant Care business with the acquisition of Monica Healthcare www.monicahealthcare.com, a monitoring technology company based in the UK. (more…)
NGA Launches Learning Network
Governors are looking at the proposed changes related to health reform that may reshape the private health insurance market and make significant changes to the Medicaid program that serves about 75 million Americans. (more…)
Helping Rural Children with MBDD
According to CDC’s www.cdc.gov report “Differences in Health Care, Family, and Community Factors Associated with Mental Behavioral and Developmental Disorders (MBDD) Among Children in Rural and Urban Areas”, one in six children from 2 to 8 in the U.S have been diagnosed with MBDD but the prevalence of MBDD in rural children at 18.6% is higher than urban children at 15.2%. (more…)
AMD Product Series Helps LTCFs
AMD Global Telemedicine www.amdtelemedicine.com the pioneer of Telemedicine Encounter Management Solutions (TEMS) to over 9,000 patient in more than 98 countries, has just announced a new product series. The series called the “Clinical Assist Series” is designed to help skilled nursing and Long Term Care Facilities (LTCF) reduce avoidable hospitalizations and to optimize their in-facility patient care. (more…)
Mohawk Networks Awarded Millions
Mohawk Networks LLC https://mohawk-networks.com recently received $6.4 million in funding through the New York Broadband Program https://www.ny.gov/programs/broadband-all. The program’s Round II funding for $268 million concentrates on public-private investments to ensure that unserved and underserved in New York have access to high speed broadband services. (more…)
Insight into Infectious Diseases
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) www.jhuapl.edu have mapped the movements of a simulated pathogen through a medical biocontainment facility. (more…)