USDA is providing $2.4 million for healthcare projects in rural Mississippi. The grants are provided through the Delta Health Care Services Grant Program. According to Sam Rikkers, Administrator for the USDA Rural Business Cooperative Service, “The grants will be used to improve technology and education services such as EHRs and telehealth capabilities.” (more…)
Bill Includes Grant Program
On January 13, 2016, the “Behavioral Health Care Integration Act of 2016” (H.R.4388) was introduced in the House by Representatives David Loebsack http://loebsack.house.gov, Paul Tonko http://tonko.house.gov, Joseph P. Kennedy III http://kennedy.house.gov, and Doris Matsui http://matsui.house.gov. The bill authorizes a primary and behavioral healthcare integration grant program with maximum annual grant funding of $2,000,000. (more…)
Update on PA’s HIE
According to the “Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority’s” www.paehealth.org Annual Report submitted December 2015 to the Governor and General Assembly, the key responsibility of the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority is to establish the statewide Health Information Exchange which is called the “Pennsylvania Patient & Provider Network” (P3N). (more…)
CBCP Making Progress at Walter Reed
Women make up 20 percent to 25 percent of the armed services, and breast cancer is observed at younger ages than ever before. Women in the military are at the same risk of breast cancer as civilians. The Clinical Breast Care Project (CBCP) at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) www.wrnmmc.capmed.mil is a funded program designed to understand, treat, and prevent breast cancer. (more…)
Diagnosing & Monitoring Brain Traumas
Brain trauma encompasses both traumatic brain injury and trauma associated with brain tumors, stroke, seizures, and infections. Initial brain trauma may result in loss of consciousness followed by a prolonged period of recovery with lingering cognitive, emotional, social, and motor impairments. (more…)
Marketing to Japanese Market
Vital Connect www.vitaconnect.com, a medical device and healthcare technology company develops wearable biosensor technology used in hospitals to remotely monitor patient’s has now extended their flagship product “HealthPatch MD” in the global market. (more…)
Help for Chronic Care Patients
Senate Finance Committee www.finance.senate.gov Chairman Orrin Hatch, along with Senators Ron Wyden, Johnny Isakson, and Mark Warner have released the options paper “Bipartisan Chronic Care Working Group Policy Options Document” to help Medicare beneficiaries with multiple complex chronic illnesses. (more…)