The Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium (APDC) http://atlanticpediatricdeviceconsortium.org was one of seven FDA www.fda.gov funded pediatric device consortia awarded in 2013. Through a collaboration between Georgia Tech, Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Virginia Commonwealth University, APDC enables ideas to be translated from product development all the way to commercialization. (more…)
Update on Several HIEs
David C. Kendrich MD, Chair, Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Oklahoma and CEO for “My HealthAccess Network”, www.myhealthaccessnetwork.net, a non-profit HIE serving more than four million patients in the state, presented testimony at the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hearing held July 23rd to discuss health information technology. (more…)
Jordan’s Health System Uses VistA
Omar Shboul, Chief Technology Officer, for Electronic Health Solutions (EHS) www.ehs.com speaking at the 2015 Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) http://summit.osehra.org Summit, presented an in-depth picture of how the VistA system is successfully serving the residents of Jordan. (more…)
Startup Grants Top $1 Million
SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering or referred to as (SUNY Poly CNSE), www.sunycnse.com announced recently that the biotech startup “HocusLocus, LLC” http://hocuslocus.com in Partnership with SUNY has been awarded over $1 million from NIH and the National Science Foundation (NSF). (more…)
DOD Awards Contract
On July 29th, the Department of Defense www.defense.gov awarded a $4.3 billion contract to the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health http://leidosdefensehealth.com, including Cerner www.cerner.com, Accenture Federal Services www.accenture.com, and Leidos www.leidos.com. (more…)
USPS Discusses Possible Health Services
Recently, the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) www.uspsoig.gov hosted a discussion forum to explore how organizations through partnerships with the Postal Service could provide cost-effective far-reaching wellness services to older Americans in every community across the nation. (more…)
Health Innovators to Gather in Boston
Partners Healthcare as the host for the Boston “2015 Connected Health Symposium http://synposium.connected-health.org on October 29-30, will gather a multi-disciplinary and diverse audience of 1,000 health leaders worldwide, hospital executives, community-based MDs, health plan leaders, fortune 500 employers, policy makers, researchers, technology developers, leading investors, patients, advocates, leading investigators, start-ups, and fortune 500 companies. (more…)