Case Western Reserve University and the Case Medical Center researchers are working on improving treatment and survival rates of ischemic heart disease patients by enabling doctors to take an unprecedented look at the stents they place in coronary arteries. The research team recently received a $1.7 million grant from NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. (more…)
Tennessee’s Approach to Health IT
The State of Tennessee’s “Draft Health Care Innovation Plan” released in December for stakeholder review, discusses the state’s approach to health IT in order to identify where the state’s demand for health IT or HIE expansion exists or is needed. (more…)
White Paper Discusses Health Apps
Health apps, a critical health issue is discussed in a White Paper produced jointly by www.myhealthapps.net and the UK government’s ICT Knowledge Transfer Network and published by PatientView. There is a great deal of information available on apps as myhealthapps.net receives information on 370 apps each month in 47 different languages dealing deal with 150 different health specialties, with five different platforms, and prices. The White Paper clarifies the situation by presenting key findings on health apps as to whether they make sense for patients and healthcare professionals to use. (more…)
VA’s Budget Requests $163.9 Billion
The Veterans Administration’s FY 2015 budget request for $163.9 billion is a 6.5 percent increase over FY 2014 with $3.9 million going to support modernized information systems. The budget request also includes $269 million for VistA Evolution and $57 million for VLER to develop the EHR system and to continue interoperability efforts with DOD. (more…)
Sutter Health Upgrading Technology
Northern California-based Sutter Health one of several U.S. healthcare networks is investing in MDLIVE. Through MDLIVE, consumers with non-emergency medical problems are able to have direct, anytime, anywhere access to doctors. (more…)
Devices to Improve Patient Safety
Two prototype technologies designed by Johns Hopkins Medicine clinicians, patient and family advocates, and JHU Applied Physics Lab (APL) engineers are being tested at Johns Hopkins University medical facilities. (more…)
Update on Virginia’s IT
The State of Virginia’s eHHR Information Technology Strategic Plan Addendum that was recently reviewed and approved at www.ehhr.virginia.gov/docs/HHR-IT-Strategic-Plan-2014-Update-Final.pdf, includes an inventory of IT projects planned for 2014-2016. The plan’s goal is to identify opportunities to modernize and streamline HHR systems, to build on current partnerships, and to identify new opportunities. (more…)