“Healthy Alaskans 2020”, http://hss.state.ak.us/ha2020 a statewide collaborative, sponsored by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium www.anthctoday.gov (ANTHC), and funded by CDC’s National Public Health Improvement Initiative www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/nphii is working to upgrade healthcare in the state. (more…)
FY 2016 Budget Request for VA
The President has proposed a $168.8 billion budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in FY 2016 www.va.gov/budget/products.asp. The VA has a medical care budget of $63.2 billion that serves 9.4 million veterans enrolled to receive care. (more…)
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…)
JHU Cardiologist Wins Grant
Ted Abraham M.D is the Director of Johns Hopkin’s Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center of Excellence www.hopkinsmedicine.org, Associate Professor of Medicine, and CEO for Perceptive Navigation a medical device start-up company that is now located on the Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus in Maryland http://mcc.jhu.edu. (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…)
NRHA Tackles Rural Health Challenges
Rural healthcare has to deal with enormous challenges such as not enough funding for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), workforce shortages, providing care to older and poorer patient populations, geographic barriers, low patient volumes, plus high uninsured and under-insured populations. (more…)