Intensive learning and networking will take place at the Partners Healthcare “2015 Connected Health Symposium http://synposium.connected-health.org to be held in Boston October 29-30, 2015. This will be a great opportunity to network with over 1,000 health technology leaders, including hospital executives, community-based MDs, health plan leaders, government policymakers, leading investigators, and fortune 500 companies. (more…)
China’s CVD Initiatives
China the largest developing nation in the world has undergone dramatic social and economic changes over the last few decades with a major shift in the pattern of diseases affecting the country. However, China’s major health threat is dealing with chronic diseases which now account for more than three quarters of all deaths. (more…)
Army Medicine’s Service Lines
The need for healthcare systems to create effective change has led the Army to adopt the service line concept to improve efficiency and safety. A service line consists of having an organizational team develop the strategy to ensure accountability, increase efficiency, and improve and sustain standard processes in a clinical area. (more…)
New Orleans Mayor Addresses NPC
A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast and nearly wiped out New Orleans, Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu came to the National Press Club in Washington D.C to discuss the city’s recovery efforts and progress. (more…)
California Funding Demonstrations
Two demonstration projects have been selected by the new California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine launched by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. The initiative is hosted by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) www.ucsf.edu, in conjunction with UC Health http://health.universityofcalifornia.edu comprised of the University of California’s five medical centers. (more…)
Training in Uzbekistan Hospitals
The continual functioning of hospitals depends on a range of factors including the safety of the buildings, along with critical systems, equipment, and the availability of supplies. The “Safe Hospital Initiative” is a priority within the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction which was agreed upon by 186 counties in March 2015. (more…)
Mid-South CDRN Receives Grant
The Mid-South Clinical Data Research Network (CDRN) http://midsouthcdrn.mc.vanderbilt.edu led by Vanderbilt University’s Russell Rothman M.D is one of eleven clinical data research networks in the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) www.pcornet.org. (more…)