The NIH Precision Medicine Initiative www.whitehouse.gov/precision-medicine is going to award $142 million over five years to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to establish the biobank for the PMI Cohort Program www.nih.gov/precision-medicine-initiative-cohort-program. (more…)
CMS Seeks Medicaid IT
In May, Andy Slavitt, CMS www.cms.gov Acting Administrator announced a new effort to connect new innovative companies and their investors to the state Medicaid program IT space. He explained, “While there are 56 different state, district, and territorial Medicaid programs, there is a lot in common among their IT needs. (more…)
RHICs Studying Cost of Care
The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) www.nrhi.org, is a national organization consisting of more than 35 member Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives (RHIC) across the U.S working to transform the healthcare delivery system. Being part of NRHI enables RHICs to work with each other and advance regional innovations at a national level. (more…)
FCC Expanding Rural Broadband
The FCC www.fcc.gov has taken steps toward investing an additional $2 billion to rural networks over the next decade by establishing an auction that will expand broadband in targeted rural areas. (more…)
Power of Research Partnerships
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine http://medicine.yale.edu are now using technology to partner with individuals and patients as partners in science. This is being accomplished by using a health IT platform called “Hugo”. (more…)
Legislation Introduced in NY
On May 27, 2016, Act (A 10436) http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A10436 was introduced in the N.Y Assembly and referred to the Committee on Health. (more…)
Avera Launches Register in SD
Avera www.avera.org in the U.S. and Vrije Universiteit (VU) in the Netherlands www.vu.nl/en have been collaborating using the Netherlands Twin Register www.tweelingenregister.org/en to study twins. The Avera Institute for Human Genetics (AIHG) continues to provide www.avera.org/mckennan/institute-for-human-genetics DNA sequencing and analysis for the Twin Register. (more…)