The Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General www.oig.ssa.gov in May released the report “Social Security Administration Expansion of Health Information Technology” http://oig.ssa.gov/sites/default/files/audit/full/pdf/A-01-13-13027_0.pdf. The report discusses the challenges involved in implementing a large IT project and how to the SSA continues to expand health IT. …Continue reading
Grant to Study Craniofacial Growth
To help orthodontists and physicians more accurately treat children who need orthodontic or other craniofacial interventions, researchers from the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine http://medicine.wright.edu along with other universities are studying craniofacial growth in different facial types. …Continue reading
UCI Receives $5 Million from NIAID
The University of California at Irvine www.uci.edu research team will receive up to $5 million to further develop a bloodstream infection detection system that will speed up diagnosis times with unprecedented accuracy. This will allow physicians to treat patients with potentially deadly ailments more promptly and effectively. …Continue reading
Increasing VRS for the Deaf
Deaf individuals communicate through sign language or contact friends and family by video calling. The call is automatically routed over the internet through a Video Relay Service (VRS) to a sign language interpreter that communicates the message to the hearing person. The VRS interpreter voices everything you sign to the hearing person and signs back everything that the hearing person says. …Continue reading
Doc-Aid Selects VirtuMedix Platform
TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) www.telecomsys.com announced that Doc-Aid http://doc-aid.com an on-demand walk-in clinic has selected the VirtuMedix www.virtumedix.com a cloud-based connected health platform to provide telemedicine urgent care 24/7. Doc-Aid based in Laredo, Texas is a vendor for the Choice Partner Cooperative purchasing network serving over 800 companies. …Continue reading
USPTO to Host Medical Device Fair
The U.S Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) www.uspto.gov within the Department of Commerce is going to host a Medical Device Technology Partnership Meeting www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-host-combined-medical-device-technology-fair-and-partnership-meeting on June 2-3, 2015 at the USPTO Campus, Madison North Auditorium, 600 Dulany Street, in Alexandria, VA. …Continue reading
Bill Introduced to Help Seniors
Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) www.burr.senate.gov and Michael Bennet (D-CO) www.bennet.senate.gov have introduced the “Patient Access to Disposable Medical Technology Act of 2015” that would fix current federal policy that keeps Medicare patients from receiving the most cutting-edge medical technologies. …Continue reading