Beverly Grossman, Senior Policy Director of the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS), www.chcanys.org, responded to the Governor of New York Andrew M. Cuomo’s www.governor.ny.gov recent FY 2015-2016 budget request. …Continue reading
GPT’s Partnership with ABAC
The Georgia Partnership for Telehealth (GPT) www.gatelehealth.org a nonprofit establishing telemedicine programs throughout the state, has just partnered with the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) www.abac.edu, a State College of the University System of Georgia. …Continue reading
HRSA Issues Funding Announcement
HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth is soliciting applications for the “Rapid Response Rural Data Analysis and Issue Specific Rural Research Studies” (HRSA-15-063) program. The purpose of the program is to help rural communities conduct rapid data analyses and short-term issue-specific rural research studies. …Continue reading
GLNT Completes Two Pilot Studies
Parkinson’s disease can produce tremor slowed movements, episodes of freezing, gait abnormalities, therapy side effects resulting in abnormal movements, and have a major impact on quality of life and activities of daily living. …Continue reading
VA Telehealth in New Mexico
The Veterans Administration’s (VA) national telehealth programs www.telehealth.va.gov served more than 690,000 veterans during FY 2014. This represents about 12 percent of the overall veteran population enrolled for VA healthcare and accounts for more than 2 million telehealth visits. About 55 percent of the veterans using telehealth live in rural areas with limited access to VA healthcare. …Continue reading
Guidance for Mobile Medical Apps
Mobile platforms have become more user friendly, computationally powerful, and readily available and as a result, innovators have developed mobile apps of increasing complexity. As in the case with traditional medical devices, certain mobile medical apps can pose potential risks to public health that are unique to the characteristics of the platform on which the mobile medical app is run. …Continue reading
Funds to Expand MyLink Program
The USDA Rural Utilities Service’s (RUS) Distance Learning and Telemedicine www.rd.usda.gov program awarded $516,600 in grants to be combined with $170,606 in matching KVC Health System’s funds to total $687,206. …Continue reading