Treatment in an ICU staffed by trained intensivist clinicians improves survival in critically ill patients. However, many patients lack access to this level of critical care particularly in small hospitals and in rural geographic areas. To address this problem, many hospitals have adopted ICU telemedicine but need to know if ICU telemedicine has great potential to improve survival in critical illness. …Continue reading
Biomedical Devices for LMICs
Northwestern University’s http://globalhealth.northwestern.edu Center for Global Health is designing training programs in biomedical engineering to help identify critical healthcare needs. The goal is to design and launch products and devices to use for diagnostics, therapeutic interventions and for disease monitoring.in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). …Continue reading
Firehouse Clinic Opens in California
The National Association of Community Health Centers www.nachc.com reports that an innovative collaboration is taking place in Hayward, California to shift patients away from being treated in more costly and crowded emergency rooms to being treated in a primary care setting. However, primary care services must be open at the right time and be immediately accessible to people when services are needed. …Continue reading
Army Seeks to Commercialize Technology
The U.S Army Medical Research and Materiel Command http://mrmc.amedd.army.mil at Fort Detrick seeks a partner interested in commercializing the technology “WoundFlow-Computerized Mapping and Tracking of Burns”. …Continue reading
Helping Patients with Respiratory Failure
The global incidence of acute respiratory failure exceeds one million cases per year. Many patients with respiratory failure require the assistance of a ventilator to provide life sustaining oxygenation and carbon dioxide removal. Unfortunately, the injured lung is susceptible to additional damage by the positive pressure exerted by the ventilator leading to additional injury, complications, and increased mortality. …Continue reading
NIDA’s Strategic Plans for 2016-2020
NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) www.drugabuse.gov has plans to develop a vast array of new tools and technologies to study biological, environmental, behavioral, and the social causes and consequences of Substance Use Disorders (SUD). The objective is to help researchers use, integrate, and analyze the vast amount of information being generated in the era of Big Data and Precision Medicine. …Continue reading
California’s EMSA Seeks Proposals
Last summer, the State of California’s Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) received $2.75 million to advance HIE for emergency medical services over two years to advance the use of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) statewide during a disaster. …Continue reading