Thirteen thousand feet above sea level in the Himalayan Mountains, Apollo Hospitals has set up one of the highest telemedicine stations in the world. The government-assisted project known as the Himachal Pradesh Telehealth Services Project, is in place to make quality healthcare more accessible to the people of this remote region of Northern India. (more…)
AHRQ Raises Budget Cap
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.ahrq.gov just raised its budget cap on large investigator-initiated research grants which are now eligible for up to $400,000 per year total cost for up to five years. During leaner times, the agency lowered the budget cap in order to support as many research projects as possible at a lower level. (more…)
Delivering More Broadband
The Administration is working hard to increase the availability of broadband in this country. In July, the new ConnectHOME http://connecthome.hud.gov program was launched in 27 cities and one tribal nation to help bring the internet to more than 275,000 low-income households. (more…)
Impact of Data on Healthcare
A panel of experts joined Steve Clemons, The Atlantic’s www.theatlantic.com Washington Editor, to discuss their ideas on how to move forward in the digital age as it relates to healthcare. (more…)
ATA’s Fall Forum a Success
Telemedicine experts and advocates came from all over the country to attend the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) 2015 Fall Forum www.americantelemed.org held in Washington D.C. September 16-18. One of the main goals was to attend and/or use social media to help the ATA community lobby Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill as to what is really needed to deliver telehealth effectively. (more…)
$500 million to Health Centers
HHS www.hhs.gov has announced that $500 million in Affordable Care Act will go to support health centers nationwide to provide primary care services to those who need the services the most. (more…)
Developing Childhood Cancer Therapies
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) www.cancer.gov has awarded grants to teams from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Children’s Cancer Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Children’s Cancer Institute in Australia, to enable participation in the Pediatric Preclinical Testing Consortium (PPTC) www.ncippt.org. (more…)