Pain medicine specialists at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) www.med.navy.mil/sites/NMCP2/Pages/Default.aspx are taking part in a telementoring project called “Pain ECHO”. The project brings primary care providers from different areas together to collaborate on treatment plans for patients with complex and chronic pain. (more…)
LifeBot Receives Award
Frost & Sullivan www.frost.com a global market research company awarded their 2014 award for “New Product Innovation Leadership for Portable Telemedicine” to LifeBot www.lifebot.us a telemedicine solutions company located in Phoenix Arizona. (more…)
Achieving Patient Safety
The Bipartisan Policy Center http://bipartisanpolicy.org sponsored the “Promoting Innovation: Protecting Patient Safety: Advancing IT” an event held December 3, 2014 to discuss ideas and topics related to the solutions and technology needed to better protect patients. An expert in the field, Tejal Gandhi, MD, President of the National Patient Safety Foundation www.npsf.org presented her ideas on the changing landscape and the lessons learned in terms of patient safety. (more…)
Innovative Training for Doctors
One in 20 U.S adult outpatients is misdiagnosed every year, so the need for ongoing medical education and training is important. Reliance Foundation www.reliancefoundation.org and the University of Chicago www.uchicago.edu are collaborating on developing innovative technology to help train medical students and clinicians to improve diagnoses and healthcare. The collaboration is supporting doctors in real-time with evidence-based clinical decision-making tools. (more…)
Updated Models: Studying Diseases
NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) www.nigms.nih.gov operates a collaborative network called the “Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study” or (MIDAS). Recently grants were awarded to do further research using computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches to do in-depth studies on diseases and how they spread. (more…)
CDC Issues Funding Announcement
Vision loss affects more than 3.3 million people aged 40 years and older in the U.S., costs the nation $130 billion annually, and is most likely to affect women, racial/ethnic minorities and people who are older and poorer with multiple chronic conditions. (more…)
KenyaEMR Implemented at 340 Sites
A shifting government structure, power outages, and even the threat of crocodiles didn’t deter the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) www.go2.tech.org from implementing KenyaEMR system at more than 340 clinics and district hospitals across Kenya. (more…)