The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) www.fnih.org received a $2.4 million grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) www.arnoldfoundation.org to support a nationwide “Coding for Cancer™” competition focused on improving the accuracy of lung cancer screenings. (more…)
Team-Based Healthcare Scores Big
The new report “213 Wisconsin Hospitals: Collaborative Partnership for Better Quality” www.wha.org/Data/Sites/1/pdf/WHA2014QualityReport.psf released March 24 by the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) www.wha.org sees multidisciplinary teams as a way to ensure that patient care is accessible, affordable, and effective especially for chronic or complex diseases. (more…)
Increasing Teleradiology Worldwide
Teleradiology will soon be available in mHealth apps, internet of things, and smart homes powered by the Borderless Healthcare Group (BHG) www.borderlessclinic.com that includes ten companies operating in health, wellness, and food. (more…)
Interoperability Challenges Discussed
Two experts featured at the WebEx meeting held April 8th provided insight and answered questions related to interoperability. Arien Malec, Vice President, Data Platform Solutions RelayHealth www.relayhealth.com and former staffer at ONC, said, “The goal is to have patient information flow between all systems so that the right data goes to the right patient at the right time.” (more…)
Advancing Precision Medicine
A team of experts participating in precision medicine and large clinical research studies is interested in public input from the stakeholder community in developing the Precision Medicine Initiative. The group of experts and the stakeholder community will help define what can be learned from a study of this scale and scope and what success will look like five and ten years out. (more…)
Capitol Hill News
Leading health IT experts came to Capitol Hill to brief staff and other attendees on important state and federal policy issues. Moderator Neal Neuberger, Executive Director, Institute for e-Health Policy www.e-healthpolicy.org emphasized that there are scores of issues related to the health IT field that still need to be revisited. (more…)
CDC Issues FOA for Refugee Center
The problem is that there is no standardized national surveillance system to identify acute illnesses in newly arriving immigrant and refugee populations. The reporting of health conditions in refugees and immigrants identified post arrival is limited to the required reportable conditions as specified by state and federal requirements. However, the identification of these conditions as belonging to refugee or immigrants is not reported. (more…)