Leaders from the Department of Defense www.defense.gov, the Veterans Health Administration www.va.gov/health, HHS www.hhs.gov, and industry gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss interoperability. The June 3rd event was initiated by the HIMSS Foundation’s Institute for e-Health Policy www.e-healthpolicy.org. (more…)
HHS SBIR/STTR Solicitation Released
HHS www.hhs.gov has just released the “2015 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grant solicitation” (PHS 2015-2) for NIH www.nih.gov, CDC www.cdc.gov, FDA www.fda.gov, and the Administration for Children and Families www.acf.hhs.gov. The Solicitation is looking for specific research initiated topics to be submitted for funding consideration. (more…)
Georgia Using Telehealth in Schools
Care providers at Georgia’s school clinics are able to remotely access student health information form pediatricians and other providers to deliver better onsite care now that Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth (GPT) www.gatelehealth.org has joined the Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN) www.gahin.org. The GaHIN is the HIE for the state and GPT is a charitable nonprofit that is promoting telemedicine programs in communities throughout Georgia. (more…)
Empowering Diabetes Management
Medtronic www.medtronic.com has signed an agreement with Glooko a leader in diabetes data unification and analytics to greatly improve access to meaningful diabetes health data. The partnership will incorporate information from Medtronic insulin pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) into Glooko’s cloud and mobile-based diabetes management platform. (more…)
BU Transforming Cancer Care
Today, as researchers advance new technologies designed to shift the action away from large specialized facilities toward smaller local clinics and to the patient’s home, test results related to cancer are needed within minutes rather than days. (more…)
UK’s Progress in Genomic Research
George Freeman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences, UK Department of Health www.gov.uk.government told the attendees at the Health Datapalooza 2015 www.healthpalooza.org Conference held in Washington D.C. that to prevent disease and reduce big health gaps, we have to unleash the power of technology. (more…)
U.S/England Partner on Obesity Data
The deBeaumont Foundation www.debeaumont.org in collaboration with the Health Data Consortium (HDC) www.healthdataconsortium.org and HHS www.hhs.gov announced the “Obesity Data Challenge”, a joint U.S. England initiative to tackle the adult obesity epidemic at Health Datapalooza 2015. (more…)