Health IT News from Federal Agencies and Capitol Hill – Edited by Carolyn Bloch
Alan Portela, CEO of AirStrip on June 27, 2013 appeared before the House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Health and Technology to discuss how mobile medical apps are rapidly helping to advance care for patients within the nation’s healthcare system. (more…)
ONC recently posted the report “Update on the Adoption of HIT and Related Effort to Facilitate the Electronic Use and Exchange of Health Information” with information on the adoption of HIT from January 1, 2012 to April 30,2013. (more…)
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) issued a Sources Sought Notice on June 28, 2013 seeking information on the capabilities of qualified sources including small businesses to develop a new model of computational analysis of biological data. This has become a necessity since there is and will continue to be an enormous growth of biomedical data in the future. (more…)
John’s Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the “Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES), a collection of flexible, open source software products developed for electronic disease surveillance in all settings. (more…)
USDA is now accepting applications for grants to provide access to education, training and healthcare resources in rural areas. The funding is available through USDA’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant program. (more…)
The HHSentrepreneurs program connects private sector innovators and entrepreneurs with teams of federal employees to address challenges in health, healthcare, and human services. The first group of six individuals from a field of more than 100 candidates hired last October through the program are now working on four projects that involve health resilience technology and the U.S. organ transplant system. (more…)
The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare has launched a pioneering program to support a redesigned care delivery system. Patient data collected at home such as vital signs including blood pressure, weight, and blood glucose is transmitted electronically. The vital signs are viewable through the Partners HealthCare medical records system with the data accessible within the established clinical workflow. (more…)