Over the past ten months, GlobalMed CEO Joel E. Barthelemy has covered a wide range of topics in his weekly video blogs, titled “ConnectedHealth”. Joel Barthelemy has produced his 40th video blog, “Connecting Veterans with Telehealth.” In 2013, it was reported that more than 600,000 veteran patients participated in 1.7 million telehealth episodes of care”. …Continue reading
Telemedicine Helps Autistic Children
Today, children are able to receive good medical care either in their area or via a state-of-the-art telemedicine link to the Marcus Autism Center (www.marcus.org), a not-for-profit organization and subsidiary of Children’s HealthCare in Atlanta. The Center is able to provide care to more than 5,000 children with autism and related disorders. …Continue reading
Legislation Introduced on Capitol Hill
On July 28, Senators Roger Wicker, (R-MS) and Thad Cochran (R-MS) introduced the “Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2014” (S. 2662) to provide Medicare beneficiaries with greater access to telehealth technologies to help lower healthcare costs. …Continue reading
Computing a Cure for HIV
HIV/AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization and remains a major health issue worldwide. Today, about 35 million people are affected by HIV including more than a million individuals in the U.S. …Continue reading
Avoiding TBI Memory Loss
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a wireless implantable brain prostheses for service members and veterans who suffer memory loss from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). In the U.S, TBI affects about 270,000 service members and another 1.7 million civilians. …Continue reading
CHCF’s Investing Initiative
As Director of the Innovations for the Underserved Program for the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), Margaret Laws oversees the CHCF program-related mission investing initiative. For example, CHCF funded a demonstration project that used text messaging to keep kids with asthma out of the emergency departments. However, when grant funding ran out, these programs couldn’t expand or sometimes even continue. …Continue reading
Peeking Into the Brain
NYU Langone Medical Center is using a novel technology that serves as a flight simulator for neurosurgeons allowing them to rehearse complicated brain surgeries before making an actual incision on a patient. …Continue reading