A data-driven approach to predict and project infectious disease outbreaks presents new opportunities according to the December 2016 report titled Towards Epidemic Prediction: Federal efforts and Opportunities in Outbreak Modeling”. (more…)
Care for Medicaid Patients
The “MS Medicaid Provider Bulletin” produced by the Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) https://medicaid.ms.gov reports that the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) https://www.umc.edu is gradually expanding different telehealth services such as telemergency. The plan is to host other telehealth services from psychiatry to radiology to diabetes monitoring to help the many Medicaid beneficiaries in the state. (more…)
RFI for Emerging Technologies
According to the Request for Information (RFI) titled “Healthcare Emerging Technology” (N62645-17-R-0013) posted on December 8, 2016 www.fbo.gov, the Surgeon General of the Navy seeks to improve digital innovation in medicine. (more…)
Platform Helps Treat Diseases
Royal Philips www.philips.com has introduced their “IntelliSpace Portal 9.0” an advanced visual analysis and quantification platform. Featuring a suite of multi-modality functions and expanded neurological tools, the platform helps radiologists detect, diagnose, and follow-up on treating diseases while using new machine learning capabilities to support the physicians. (more…)
Cleveland Clinic Expanding HIT
Cleveland Clinic www.clevelandclinic.org and IBM http://ibm.com have announced a five year agreement to expand the Cleveland Clinic’s health IT capabilities to enhance patient care across the systems nine regional hospitals and 18 full service family health centers. (more…)
Health System Streamlining Operations
The Henry Ford Health System’s www.henryford.com Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are partnering with Beckman Coulter Inc. www.beckmancoulter.com to streamline operations. The plan is to fully automate the Henry Ford Hospital laboratory with new equipment at twelve Henry Ford locations. The updated equipment will improve the efficiency at the Henry Ford laboratories which produces more than 30 million diagnostic reports each year. (more…)
CBO Issues Cost Details
The Congressional Budget Office recently released cost estimates for legislation introduced last February by Senator Alexander Lamar (R-TN) titled “Improving Health Information Technology Act” (S.2511) www.congress.com. (more…)