The eHealth Initiative (eHI) recently launched the “eHealth Initiative 2020 Roadmap a public-private collaboration to help guide the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system by 2020. With the help and support of a wide array of leading healthcare associations, organizations, and federal agencies, the roadmap is going to propose key policy recommendations to implement at a federal level and will detail actions for the private sector to use to help transform healthcare. …Continue reading
FCC’s Rural Broadband Expansion
The FCC is taking steps through the Connect America Fund to implement the next phase of its rural broadband program. Phase I of the Fund invested over $438 million to deploy broadband service to 1.6 previously unserved rural areas, invested $300 million to expand advance mobile wireless service, and provided nearly $50 million to improve mobile voice and broadband on Tribal lands. …Continue reading
Patent Program Addresses Global Issues
The Patents for Humanity program for 2014 renewed by the U.S Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) rewards businesses, inventors, non-profits, and universities that are using their intellectual property portfolio to bring life-saving technologies to underserved people in the world. …Continue reading
Mobile Apps to Help Parkinson’s Patients
Great Lakes Neuro Technologies (GLNT) www.gineurotech.com will use $1.5 million in funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to expand their Parkinson’s monitoring technology to include mobile applications funded through the SBIR program. …Continue reading
HIE to Support EDs and PCCs
AHRQ awarded Dr. Mollie Cummins, Associate Professor of Nursing and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, College of Nursing $1.2 million to study the health information exchange process between Emergency Departments (ED) and Poison Control Centers. (PCC) …Continue reading
NIH Seeks mHealth Tools
On April 18th, NIH’s National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) issued Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) (PA-14-180) seeking to stimulate research for mHealth tools. …Continue reading
Florida’s Telehealth Services
The University of Miami (UM) initiated telehealth services in 1973 with Jay Sanders M.D as the Principal Investigator helped to provide the first telehealth service in the state, to use nurse practitioners in telemedicine, and the first telemedicine program used in a correction facility. Today, UM has ongoing initiatives in tele-dermatology, tele-trauma, humanitarian and disaster response relief using telehealth, school telehealth services, and acute teleneurology or telestroke. …Continue reading