Putting Hospital Patients in Control

Yeovil Hospital www.vilhospital.co.uk has established a partnership with digital start-up company uMotif www.umotif.com to develop and provide digital treatments for hundreds of patients. Within the next month senior clinicians at Yeovil Hospital will be able to provide patients a free uMotif app built specifically around their needs. The app will provide a range of intuitive tools to enable patients to record, manage, and share information on their health and wellbeing while in the hospital. (more…)

HHS Issues Three FOAs

Secretary of HHS Sylvia Burwell at the 2015 ONC Annual Meeting on February 3rd, announced a new ONC Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) that seeks the secure exchange and use of electronic health information. HHS will invest $28 million in funds to achieve 21st century interoperability goals. (more…)

Advancing Precision Medicine

Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. Although significant advances in medicine have been made for selected cancers, the practice is not currently in use for most diseases. (more…)