“It is clear that cancer informatics and the ability for the research community and patients to obtain the data is essential in our war on cancer”, stated Warren A. Kibbe, PhD, Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) http://cbiit.nci.nih.gov at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) www.cancer.gov. He voiced these thoughts at the 2016 OSEHRA Summit www.osehra.org on June 28, 2016. …Continue reading
Micro-gRX Receives Funding
Stobhan Mallany, PhD, Director of Translational Biology at Sanford Burnham Prebys (SBP) www.sbpdiscovery.org and founder of the spin-off company Micro-gRx http://micro-grx.com has been awarded $435,000 to study atrophy in muscle cells in microgravity on the International Space Station. …Continue reading
DLT Approves Grants for Appalachia
Five USDA www.usda.gov Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grants are approved to provide treatment for the growing opioid epidemic in rural central Appalachia. The five grants are included in the first new round of USDA DLT projects that are going to be announced this summer. The funding includes $1.4 million for five projects in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. …Continue reading
Speeding Up the Zika Vaccine
The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) www.phe.gov, will begin to develop a vaccine at the Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing (CIADM) http://ciadm.tamhsc.edu located in Baltimore. …Continue reading
Discussing eHMP at Summit
Seong K. Mun, PhD, President and CEO of the “Open Source EHR Alliance” (OSEHRA) www.osehra.org welcomed attendees to the “OSEHRA Open Source Summit” held June 27-29, 2016 http://summit.osehra.org. Since OSEHRA was established, the Veterans Administration (VA) www.va.gov has contributed code to OSEHRA, so that the open source community can co-opt what the VA has developed to allow further product development. …Continue reading
Telehealth for Home Dialysis Patients
Eric Wallace M.D., Nephrologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) provides full checkups to dialysis patients in their home from hundreds of miles away by using a high definition handheld examination camera from UAB www.uab.edu. …Continue reading
$26 Million for Patient Safety Research
CDC’s $26 million will support applied research at academic medical centers in a patient safety effort known as “Prevention Epicenters Program www.cdc.gov/HAI/epiCenters/index.html. Together with CDC, the Epicenters will develop and test innovative approaches to prevent infections and improve patient safety in healthcare. The new funding more than doubles previous awards and expands the program to 2020. …Continue reading