A trial investigating a potential electric biomarker for mTBI is now recruiting teenage and adult patients at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) https://www.uth.edu. …Continue reading
JHU & APL Working Together
Project Wonder is a collaboration between clinicians at the Johns Hopkins Myositis Precision Medicine Center of Excellence https://www.hopkinsmyositis.org and data scientists, human factors, and software engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) https://www.jhuapl.edu in Laurel Md. …Continue reading
Help for Children Undergoing Surgery
There is help for children in Utah and throughout the Intermountain West who suffer from seizures or have brain tumors. Neurosurgeons at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital https://intermountainhealthcare.org are using a specialized intraoperative iMRI to see deep inside the brain during surgeries. …Continue reading
Results of the Bi-Annual CIO Survey
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com surveyed C-Level Executives, (primarily CIOs and CDOs) at hospitals and health systems (combined representing 357 hospitals) on various topics/areas related to capital spending, EHR/RCM platforms, telehealth trends and recent M&A/partnerships etc. …Continue reading
DHA’s Thoughts at MHS panel
The Armed Forces Communications, Electronics Association (Bethesda Chapter) held their Health IT 2022 Virtual Event Series during February 2022. One of the speakers on the MHS Panel was Chris Nichols, Program Manager, for EIDA at the Defense Health Agency. …Continue reading
Modernizing Health Privacy Laws
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) https://www.cassidy.senate.gov and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) https://www.baldwin.senate.gov introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act to modernize outdated health privacy laws and regulations. …Continue reading
Long Terms Effects of COVID
Experts at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) https://www.chla.org received $8.3 million from NIH to study long term effects of COVID-19 in children and young adults to determine the most effective ways to treat the serious consequences of this condition. …Continue reading