MedStar Health https://www.medstarhealth.org and Georgetown University Medical Center https://gumc.georgetown.edu are collaborating in the Data Science Training Core which is part of a new two year multimillion dollar award funded initiative by NIH https://www.nih.gov (more…)
Hospital-Level Patient Care At Home
Medically Home https://www.medicallyhome.com announced a $110 million strategic investment led by Baxter International Inc., Global Medical Response, and Cardinal Health. Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente to provide additional capital in addition to previous investments. (more…)
$48M for Rural Health Workforce
HHS through HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) announced that nearly $48 million in funding is available for community-based organizations to expand public health capacity in rural and tribal communities. (more…)
TDOC’s Thoughts on Omada Health
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com caught up with Teladoc’s (TDOC) https://www.teladoc.com management on Omada Health’s https://www.omadahealth.com announcement they have earned preferred status on Evernorth’s Digital Health Formulary for their cardiometabolic digital chronic care solutions, including Diabetes, Hypertension, and Diabetes Prevention. (more…)
VA Addressing Lung Cancer
Nearly 8,000 veterans are diagnosed and treated in the VA for lung cancer each year. An estimated 900,000 are at risk for lung cancer due to age, smoking, and environmental exposures during and after military service. (more…)
ESSENCE System Cleans Health Data
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics lab (APL) https://www.jhuapl.edu developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). (more…)
Cleveland Clinic Receives $2.5M Grant
The Cleveland Clinic https:/my.clevelandclinic.org has received a $2.5 million grant from AHRQ to conduct a multicenter clinical trial to evaluate ways to reduce the use of broad spectrum antibiotics in adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia. (more…)