Roughly a third of adults in the U.S have hypertension, yet almost one in five of these individuals remains unaware of the condition. Most patients with undiagnosed hypertension regularly use healthcare services but many are not diagnosed or treated due in part to concerns about the reliability of office-based blood pressure measurement and underuse of ambulatory-based monitoring. …Continue reading
Open Source Health IT News
The Open Service Electronic Health Alliance (OSEHRA) www.osehra.org, a nonprofit organization supporting the open source community of users, developers, service providers, and researchers is determined to advance EHR software and related health information technology. Also OSEHRA hosts software repositories for applications such as VistA and Blue Button. …Continue reading
Sharing Information from Use Cases
Timothy A. Pletcher, Executive Director for the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) Shared Services testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions www.help.senate.gov at the June 16th hearing “Achieving the Promise of Health Information Technology: What Can Providers and HHS do to Improve the EHR User Experience”. …Continue reading
Marketing Biomedical Technologies
A University of Texas Dallas www.utdalla.edu led initiative is identifying potentially marketable biomedical technologies developed within University of Texas System institutions and move them more efficiently from the laboratory bench to the bedside. …Continue reading
EHRs Discussed at Senate Hearing
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) www.help.senate.gov recently held a hearing to explore how Congress and the Administration can improve EHRs either through legislation or administrative action. …Continue reading
Telehealth Highlighted at IHT2
Telehealth always evolving, is expected to grow and has the potential to vastly change how care is delivered. Leaders in the field presented their ideas at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (IHT2) Summit http://ihealthtran.com/washington/washingtonhome held in Washington D.C June 16-17, 2015. …Continue reading
Saving Lives in the Battlefield
“Army medical researchers have developed a device that will revolutionize triage,” said Lt. Col. Robert Carter Task Area Manager for Tactical Combat Casualty Care Research at the Army Institute of Surgical Research www.usair.amedd.army.mil Joint Base in San Antonio. …Continue reading