A partnership has been established between the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Center for Vulnerable Populations (CVP) http://cvp.ucsf.edu at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) http://sfgh.ucsf.edu and the California Healthcare Safety Net Institute (SNI) http://safetynetinstitute.org to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices across all public hospital integrated delivery systems in the state. (more…)
Mercy’s Builds Virtual Care Center
Mercy Hospital the fifth largest Catholic healthcare system in the U.S, is constructing a 120,000 square foot facility to be called Mercy Virtual http://bit.ly/MercyVirtual. This facility is going to accommodate nearly 300 physicians, nurses, specialists, researchers, and staff to become the world’s first virtual care/telemedicine center. (more…)
LDTs Discussed on the Hill
Joseph R. Pitts (R-PA) Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health http://energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittees/health recently held a hearing recently to address FDA’s issuing of draft guidance documents that would fundamentally alter the regulatory landscape for the review and oversight of LDTs.This draft document has raised legitimate concerns about whether FDA can or should use guidance to promulgate a new regulatory approach. (more…)
Contact-Free VMA Monitors Patients
Sensiotec Inc. www.Sensiotec.com, www.twitter.com/Sensiotec an innovator in biosensor and digital health technology and WellStar’s http://wellstar,org Center for Health Transformation http://centerforhealthtransformation.org (CHT) have agreed to accelerate the commercial adoption of the first FDA-approved contact free monitoring platform referred to as the Virtual Medical Assistant® (VMA). (more…)
State to Receive BIP Funds
The State of Pennsylvania has been approved for federal funding through the “Balancing Incentive Program” www.balancingincentiveprogram.org (BIP) created by the Affordable Care Act. The $94,260,252 federal matching funds received through BIP will help the Commonwealth expand Home and Community-Based Long Term Services and Support www.aging.state.pa.us (HCB LTSS) with the goal to improve the LTSS delivery system. (more…)
mHealth Technology for LMICs
NIH and participating Institutes have issued Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-028.html titled “Mobile Health: Technology and Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries”. (more…)
QuantuMDx’s Prototype Handheld Lab
At the TEDMED 2014 Conference, QuantuMDX Group announced the successful production of their first fully-integrated sample-to result working prototype of Q-POC™, a handheld lab that delivers a DNA-based medical diagnosis in minutes. The device is due for commercialization in 2016. (more…)