Save the date and come to the second national Telemedicine & Telehealth Service Provider Showcase (SPS 2016) http://ttspsworld.com in Phoenix AZ June 21-22 2016. The SPS 2016 Expo hall will feature valuable networking opportunities plus information on a broad array of telemedical specialty services and models to include many top names in the industry. …Continue reading
Grant Funds to Help Children
The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP www.mchb.hrsa.gov administered by HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), supports community-based child health projects to improve the health status of mothers, infants, children, and adolescents. …Continue reading
VA Proposes APRN Regulations
The Veterans Administration (VA) www.va.gov proposes to amend their medical regulations to permit full practice authority for all VA Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) when they are acting within the scope of their VA employment. …Continue reading
Intermountain Launches Connect Care
Intermountain Connect Care® www.intermountainconnectcare.org a telehealth service is now available to anyone in Utah and Idaho 24/7 via video and audio conferencing by using the Connect Care app on mobile devices. …Continue reading
BACtrack Wins Challenge
NIH’s www.nih.gov National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) www.niaaa.nih.gov recently announced that the winner for the “Wearable Alcohol Biosensor Challenge” a competition to design a discreet device capable of measuring blood alcohol levels in near real-time. BACtrack www.bactrack.com was the recipient of the $200,000 first prize. …Continue reading
Export Markets for the Cloud
Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) http://trade.gov produced the report “2016 Top Markets Report: Cloud Computing” a market assessment tool to help exporters. Essentially, the cloud enables the use of more basic computing tools that may be supplied from technical and software infrastructures other than their own. …Continue reading
Expanding Mental Health Services
Netsmart www.ntst.com and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) http://mhs.ohio.gov are expanding collaborative services. OhioMHAS is now going to use the Netsmart clinical financial technology platform across their six regional psychiatric hospitals. …Continue reading