NASA’s Glenn Research Center in in Cleveland has signed their first commercial startup licensing agreement with AirFlare LLC located in Nashville to produce the Glenn-patented Portable Unit for Metabolic Analysis www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/puma_tech.html. This agreement makes AirFlare the go-to-source for the public to access NASA technology in the fitness market. …Continue reading
Abbott Acquires St. Jude Medical
Abbott in acquiring St. Jude Medical will create a company that is a premier medical device leader. The acquisition will take part in high growth cardiovascular markets, including atrial fibrillation, structural heart and heart failure, as well as become a leader in the high growth neuromodulation market. …Continue reading
RFA Issued to Establish IDNs
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) www.dhhs.nh.gov issued a Request for Applications (RFA-2016-OCOM-06-DELIV) on May 13, 2016 to establish regionally-based Integrated Delivery Networks (IDN). The due date for the application is June 13, 2016. …Continue reading
VA Announces Telemental Centers
Dr. David J. Shulkin, the Veterans Administration’s www.va.gov Under Secretary for Health speaking at the American Telemedicine Association www.americantelemed.org 2016 conference held recently in Minneapolis, announced that five VA Mental Health Telehealth Clinical Resource Centers are being established to provide enhanced mental health access and services to veterans in remote locations. …Continue reading
VP Biden Speaks at Health DataPalooza
Vice President Joe Biden as leader of the new National Cancer Moonshot Initiative a $1 billion project, is hopeful that cancer well be eliminated as we know it. The Vice President speaking at the Health DataPalooza Meeting held in Washington D.C., in May said “The battle has just begun and we all need to join and work together to aggressively fight cancer”. …Continue reading
Virginia Board of Medicine Actions
Virginia’s Board of Medicine in their April 2016 newsletter made several references to telemedicine. Bill (SB 369) was introduced to expand a telemedicine pilot program so that healthcare services can be provided in certain areas. …Continue reading
Health Disparities Center Launched
The “Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic and Racial Equity Center” or known as SPHERE https://med.stanford.edu is one of the first national centers focused on using precision-medicine tools to improve the health of underserved ethnic and racial groups. …Continue reading