A Purdue startup recently received federal funding to further develop a microscope capable of detecting cellular motion in 3-D tissue. The startup Animated Dynamics Inc. www.anidyn.com received a two year SBIR Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $744,066 to help develop the biodynamic microscope. …Continue reading
Intermountain & American Well Partnering
Intermountain Healthcare http://intermountainhealthcare.org, based in Utah has announced a partnership with American Well http://americanwell.com. The plan is to create and support a mobile and web service connecting patients with Intermountain providers for live on demand video visits over the internet. …Continue reading
Integrated Network Created
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) www.utsouthwestern.edu and Texas Health Resources (Texas Health) www.TexasHealth.org on October 2, 2015, created an integrated regional health network named “Southwestern Health Resources”. …Continue reading
Apprio Awarded $3.4 Million Contract
The Federal Health Architecture (FHA), www.healthit.gov managed by ONC has more than 20 federal agencies are working together to build common enterprise information models to foster interoperability, data quality, and transparency among the health IT environment. …Continue reading
Cybersecurity Issues Discussed
Our healthcare industry is faced with the escalation of large scale sophisticated cybersecurity attacks. To tackle this important issue, the HIMSS Foundation Institute for e-Health Policy http://apps.himss.org/foundation, CHIME http://chimecentral.org, and the Association for Executives in Health Information Security (AEHIS) http://ashis.org presented a briefing titled “Cybersecurity in Healthcare: The Growing Challenge of Securing Patient Data” on October 6, 2015. …Continue reading
Bill to Improve HIT Systems
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) www.whitehouse.senate.gov and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) www.cassidy.senate.gov introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen accountability and improve transparency in health IT systems. The legislation titled the “Transparent Ratings on Usability and Security to Transform Information Technology (TRUST IT) Act of 2015” would ensure that certified health IT systems are performing as promised in the field. …Continue reading
Carequality Seeks Applications
Carequality, the national public-private collaborative dedicated to developing and implementing a national health IT interoperability framework, is seeking applicants to serve on their Advisory Council.
Carequality is looking for broad representation from across the entire healthcare continuum and anyone interested in solving today’s interoperability challenges with real world implementation solutions is welcome to apply.
Applications are being accepted now through 5:00 pm PDT on Friday October 23, 2015, Go to www.carequality.org for more information.