The ForwardHealth Portal at www.forwardhealth.wi.gov serving as the interface to the new Medicaid Management Information System for the state of Wisconsin, has implemented the Medication Therapy Management (MTM) benefit in conjunction with the Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality Collaborative. The MTM benefit provides intervention-based services and Comprehensive Medication Review and Assessments (CMR/A). …Continue reading
Executive Summit Held in D.C.
“The Atlantic” and the “National Council for Behavioral Health” held their cutting-edge inaugural eHealth Executive Summit on May 7th to showcase the latest innovations at the intersection of technology, mental health, substance abuse treatment, and wellness. …Continue reading
Telehealth Network to Help Children
The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and Mississippi Children’s Home Services (MCHS) have formed a partnership called “The Children’s Collaborative” to provide a statewide integrated behavioral and mental healthcare system. Supported by a $5 million grant from CMS and the Mississippi Division of Medicaid, the public- private partnership is the first to integrate primary and behavioral health delivery systems. …Continue reading
CDC Software Tool Detecting Outbreaks
For the first time, CDC’s new software tool is detecting outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, Marburg, Rift Valley, Lassa, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fevers. The new CDC tool an Epi Info Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) application speeds up detecting diseases, finding people exposed to the disease, people possibly infected by the disease, and people with the contagious disease. …Continue reading
Mercy Transforming Care via Telehealth
Mercy the sixth largest Catholic Health System based in St. Louis serves more than 3 million people annually spanning four states is transforming patient care through telehealth. Mercy SafeWatch, is the largest single-hub TeleICU in the country that enables specialists to continually monitor critical patient data across 15 hospitals and interact via video communication with on-site medical teams and patients. …Continue reading
Technologies for Global Health Research
The Fogarty International Center at NIH just updated their Strategic Plan to present ideas on how to advance global health research and how to continue investing in the changing global health landscape. …Continue reading
Health Datapalooza 2014: Advancing Health Data
The Health Data Consortium is convening Health Datapalooza 2014 (http://healthdatapalooza.org), a national conference on liberating health data to improve patient outcomes and lower costs, on June 1-3 in Washington D.C. …Continue reading