A Los Angeles team of scientists and surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), and Huntington Medical Research Institutes reports that sound registering in the brain of a deaf Canadian boy for the first time after doctors activated a hearing device that had been surgically implanted in his brainstem. (more…)
Help for the Mentally Ill
The District of Columbia’s Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) and the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) have partnered to develop a Health Home State Plan benefit that will target individuals with severe and persistent mental illness to help improve health outcomes. Both DHCF and DBH intend to implement this program January 2015. (more…)
CDC Director Speaks at NPC
Six organisms (MERS, Ebola, measles, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, clostridium difficile, and CRE) are spread in hospitals and preventable but many times, we still don’t have a prevention, cure, or vaccine according to CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden discussing key health issues at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. (more…)
NJ’s Health Department Awards Grants
The New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) awarded $612,000 in grants to community-based agencies to enable patients to better manage chronic conditions. DOH awarded $415,000 to the Trenton Health Team (THT) to use health IT to help find better ways to use the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system to care for patients faced with diabetes and hypertension. (more…)
HIT for Quality Coordinated Care
Addressing the Senate Finance Committee on the Hill July 15th, William A. Bornstein, MD, PhD, CMO and Chief Quality Officer at Emory Healthcare, told the Committee about Emory Healthcare’s successful efforts to care for chronically ill patients and how technology continues to play a very important role in coordinating care for patients in medical homes. (more…)
Washington State Collecting Data
Officials in the State of Washington are very interested in the response to the “Digital States Survey 2014” that is conducted every two years by the Center for Digital Government and Digital States Performance Institute, a division of eRepublic. Some of the results in the most recent state survey touched on cybersecurity, open data, disaster recovery, cloud computing, healthcare, mobile applications, plus a number of other areas with the information being circulated. (more…)
Investing in Rural Projects
The White House Rural Council recently announced that initially $10 billion has been committed by CoBank to create the new Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund a vehicle for private entities to invest in job-creating rural projects across the country. (more…)