The SpeechVive device is a treatment solution easy and effective to use as previously tested in a NIH study. The study showed that the device improved communication in 90 percent of individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) by improving volume, articulation, and speech rate. …Continue reading
Armed Services Reducing Pathogens
Dr. Karen Scott, Chief Medical Officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS www.hhs.gov/ash, visited the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda www.wrnmmc.capmed.mil to review the first Department of Defense pathogen reduction system. …Continue reading
Offering Mobile Video Visits
FastMed Urgent Care www.fastmed.com, is partnering with TouchCare www.touchcare.com to offer mobile video appointments to North Carolinians via smartphones or tablets. FastMed will also see patients at one of the 57 North Carolina clinics to continue care if further evaluations or tests are needed. In that case, the telemedicine appointment fee would be waived. …Continue reading
Contract Awarded to TIPS
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) www.dhs.pa.gov just announced that HealthChoices was chosen to establish Pennsylvania’s “Telephonic Psychiatric Consultation Service Program” (TIPS). …Continue reading
Broadband Mapping Tool Unveiled
The FCC’s “Connect2Health (C2H) Task Force” and the “Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease Organization” co-hosted the launch of the new “Mapping Broadband Health in America” www.fcc.gov/health/maps” platform at an event held August 2, 2016 at the Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center in Washington D.C. …Continue reading
NCATS Intends to Publish FOA
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) https://ncats.nih.gov within NIH, plans to publish a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) in August 2016. NCATS will solicit applications for ideas on how to develop specific experiments in space for the International Space Station National Laboratory (ISS-NL) www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/nlab/index.html. …Continue reading
Advancing Cardiovascular Medicine
The American Heart Association (AHA) http://institute.heart.org in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a leading cloud computing infrastructure, is going to use cloud technology to further cardiovascular medicine. To accomplish this goal, AHA has allocated $30 million over five years to launch the Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine http://institute.heart.org. …Continue reading