The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) www.oahhs.org representing all of Oregon’s community hospitals has developed a new price transparency initiative giving Oregon consumers pricing details in advance of a visit to a hospital for a procedure. …Continue reading
Collaborating with Dr. Oz
Sharecare, www.sharecare.com a online health and wellness engagement platform and Amwell’s telehealth service recently teamed up with the Dr. Oz Show to provide 5,000 people with a free doctor’s appointment. “Through our partnership with American Well www.americanwell.com, we were able to bring the exam room to the living room or wherever you might be when there is a need to talk to a doctor,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz. …Continue reading
Georgia’s Blueprint for the Future
The Alzheimer’s Association www.alz.org estimates there are currently more than 130,000 Georgians living with Alzheimer’s disease and that by 2025 that number will grow to 160,000. The cost to Medicare for individuals with Alzheimer’s or other related dementias already nears half a billion dollars in Georgia. Due to the physical and emotional toll of caregiving, Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers have more than $9.3 billion in additional healthcare costs of their own. …Continue reading
Developing Treatment for Fragile X
Indianapolis-based Confluence Pharmaceuticals www.confluencepharma.com and Vienna-based AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals AG (AOP) www.aoporphan.com/en.html have signed an agreement to co-develop and market Confluence’s product for the treatment of Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) in Europe and the Middle East. …Continue reading
Navy’s Surgeon General Testifies
Surgeon General of the Navy Vice Admiral Matthew L. Nathan testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Defense on the Defense Health Program www.appropriations.senate.gov/subcommittee/defense. He talked about Navy Medicine’s efforts to effectively work with the Department of Defense (DOD) on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa. …Continue reading
Data Sharing Networks Rollout
Healtheway www.healthewayinc.org at HIMSS15 announced the initial rollout of the Carequality www.carequality.org framework for inter-network health information exchange. Eleven organizations representing different types of data sharing networks are part of the initial launch phase. …Continue reading
NYSDOH Issues RFP
The Office of Quality and Patient Safety (OQPS) within the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) www.health.ny.gov on April 7, 2015 issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) titled “All Payer Database Project: Data Warehouse and Data Analytics”. …Continue reading