The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) encourages entrepreneurial innovation through programs and strategic initiatives. With funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Engineering (NIBIB), for the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN), CIMIT is working to create a national center without walls to rapidly transform emerging Point-of-Care (POC) technologies into viable clinically focused solutions to improve primary health care. (more…)
VHA’s Simulation Progress
In 2009, a national simulation training and education program was established for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) called SimLEARN to provide simulation-based learning strategies to help the clinical workforce use technology to enhance their training. Clinical simulation has become part of the culture at the San Francisco VA Medical Center for staff training, process evaluation and improvements, as well as dealing with safety issues. (more…)
Helping EMS Personnel
One important issue affecting emergency personnel is the need to cross state borders to provide care. The National Association of State EMS Officials has proposed an interstate Compact be offered to help the day-to-day emergency deployment of EMS personnel crossing state boundaries. (more…)
NIH & Appistry Partnering
Appistry www.appistry.com providing high performance computing and analytics solutions for next-generation medicine has signed a partnership with NIH’s Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP). The plan is to develop a unique genetic-analysis pipeline to diagnose patients and use family genetics to narrow the search for genetic changes that underlie many rare and undiagnosed diseases. (more…)
New Telehealth Service
A new telehealth service is helping organizations have immediate access to occupational medicine specialists. PRAXIMO™ www.PRAXIMO.com an international telehealth operations company and 633 SAFETY SERVICES www.633Safety.com a safety consulting agency, have formed an alliance to launch TeleOcc™ to provide occupational telehealth services to health and safety industry leaders. (more…)
Telemedicine Venture Summit at ATA
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and the global law firm of Jones Day are going to co-host the second “Annual ATA Telemedicine Venture Summit” on Sunday, May 18, 2014 in Baltimore Maryland. (more…)
Telemedicine Program Launched
Arkansas patients with hand injuries now have access to the nation’s first hand trauma telemedicine program. This new method for dealing with hand injuries was developed and launched by the Arkansas Trauma Communications Center (ATCC) and the Arkansas Department of Health in January 2014. (more…)