Speaking at the 2016 Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) Summit http://summit.osehra.org, Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono, MD, Director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) www.health.mil/dha said “Modernized EHR systems are needed to provide care to the millions of service members, plus the international patients that are acquired when the U.S is in conflict, along with the many veterans requiring care and rehabilitation.” (more…)
MedPAC Report Discusses Telehealth
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) www.MedPAC.gov have released their “Report to the Congress: Medicare and Health Care Delivery System” http://medpac.gov. The report raises issues for policymakers to consider when addressing how telehealth services will fit into the Medicare program in the future. (more…)
New Cancer Model of Care
CMS http://cms.hhs.gov has selected nearly 200 physician group practices and 17 health insurance companies to participate in a care delivery model supporting higher quality and more coordinated cancer care. The Medicare arm of the “Oncology Care Model” (OCM) https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/oncology-care includes more than 3,200 oncologists and will cover about 155,000 Medicare beneficiaries. (more…)
Hospital Care Safer for Children
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.ahrq.gov has helped researchers develop a new tool to make care safer for children in hospitals. The “Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety” (GAPPS) trigger tool uses electronic or written data to identify adverse events in pediatric patients. (more…)
Connecting With NTIS
The Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service (NTIS) www.ntis.gov published a Federal Register Notice June 16th announcing a new Joint Venture Partnership (JVP) opportunity focused on improving access, analysis, and use of federal data. The JVP may require investments by partners but may provide a revenue-sharing opportunity. (more…)
Advancing Remote Monitoring
Shimmer Sensing www.shimmersensing.com headquartered in Dublin provides medical grade wearable wireless sensors. The company is partnering with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard http://wyss.harvard.edu with plans to do further research on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) using wearable sensing technology. (more…)
Helping Parkinson’s Patients
A new program launched by neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) www.urmc.rochester.edu is going to expand access to care and serve as a national model for the management of Parkinson’s disease and other chronic illnesses. (more…)