The Indian Health Service (IHS) www.ihs.gov provides a comprehensive health service delivery system for about 2.2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. October 4, 2016, CMS www.cms.gov announced that they have awarded a new contract to support best health care practices and other operational improvements for the Indian Health Service (IHS) which operates hospitals participating in the Medicare program. …Continue reading
Assessment Program Launched
All active HHS SBIR/STTR Phase 1 awardees and Phase 1 Fast Track awardees are eligible to apply to the “Niche Assessment Program (NAP). This program was created for active HHS agencies within NIH www.nih.gov, CDC www.cdc.gov, and FDA www.fda.gov SBIR/STTR Phase 1 Awardees. …Continue reading
Protecting Against Cyber Threats
HHS has awarded cooperative agreements totaling $350,000 to help healthcare and public health partners respond to cybersecurity threats. The funding will be used is to develop a more vibrant cyber information ecosystem. …Continue reading
SSA Addresses Health IT
The Social Security Administration (SSA) www.ssa.gov has released their new “Open Government Plan 4.0” with information on disability determinations, customer engagement tools, data exchanges, the analytics center, and how health IT has helped the agency to provide disability determinations at a faster rate. …Continue reading
CHCF Invests in RubiconMD
Specialty care is in short supply throughout California, as statewide data shows that Medi-Cal enrollees are twice as likely as those with employer-based insurance to find difficulty seeing a specialist. Barriers in accessing specialty care is even more acute for Medi-Cal www.medi-cal.ca.gov enrollees in rural areas. …Continue reading
Improving Rural Healthcare
The Administration and non-Federal organizations are actively involved in on-going and new programs to help provide healthcare to rural communities. For example, the “Rural Integration Models for Parents and Children in Thrive (RuralIMPACT) a successful demonstration project launched last year, is continuing to help communities. …Continue reading
$13.4 Million Funding PQMPs
AHRQ www.ahrq.gov and CMS www.cms.gov have awarded $13.4 million over four years to six new Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) grantees focused on implementing new pediatric quality measures developed by the PQMP Centers of Excellence (COE). …Continue reading