The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “Next-Generation Incident Command System” (NICS) www.dhs.gov/publication/next-generation-incident-command-system is going to be implemented in some NATO member and partner countries to help first responders. …Continue reading
University Awards Grants
The Department of Family Medicine www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/fammed within the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU) has received several large grants this year to improve primary healthcare in rural areas. Totaling $4.5 million, the grants were awarded by HRSA www.hrsa.gov within HHS. …Continue reading
Electronically Assessing Wounds
Electronically diagnosing wounds is particularly important in medical centers, long term acute care hospitals, nursing homes, and to to remotely connect with specialists if providers are located in rural communities. …Continue reading
Senate Passes ECHO Act
Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) www.schatz.senate.gov and Orrin (R-Utah) www.hatch.senate.gov were happy to see the “Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes” (ECHO) legislation pass in the Senate by a vote of 97-0. The ECHO Act is a bipartisan and innovative response to connect primary care providers who practice in rural and underserved areas. …Continue reading
Developing New Computer Tools
“Creating computers that can understand human language and make intelligent decisions based on programmed reasoning skills is a more challenging computational problem than most people can appreciate”, said Georgia D. Tourassi, Director, Health Data Sciences Institute (HDSI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) www.ornl.gov and Co-Principal for a research project between ORNL and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) www.cancer.gov. …Continue reading
MN Publishes e-Health Report
The State of Minnesota published the “2016 Minnesota HIT Ambulatory Clinics Survey, an annual survey of clinics in the state that details the state’s progress implementing e-health. Nearly all ambulatory clinics in the state have adopted EHRs representing 1,257 clinics in 2016. Epic is the dominant EHR vendor system used by 51 percent of clinics in the state. …Continue reading
Trial Combining Technology
Three technology companies are working together to integrate their technologies into the NIH-funded International Diabetes Closed Loop (IDCL) Trial. The companies include Tandem Diabetes Care® (TNDM) www.tandemdiabetes.com manufacturer of touchscreen insulin pumps, Dexcom Inc., www.dexcom.com a leader in continuous glucose monitoring, and TypeZero Technologies LLC., www.typezero.com a digital health and personalized medicine company. …Continue reading