Veterans Administration (VA) researchers are working with MIT scientists to create a robot called Anklebot. The VA is now conducting a two year study to see if Anklebot is helping stroke victims improve their gait. The study being conducted at the VA Maryland Health Care System in Baltimore at www.maryland.va.gov is beginning to show that walking on a treadmill with the Anklebot may improve independent gait velocity and forward propulsion. …Continue reading
Technology to Help the Disabled
The Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) program called “Field Initiated (FI) Projects” develops methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies to support disabled individuals. …Continue reading
Partners in the Heartland TRC
All of the partners in the Heartland Telehealth Resource Center (HTRC) are well established telemedicine entities and have a great deal of knowledge across multiple domains. The partner organizations includes University of Kansas Center for Telemedicine and Telehealth ((KUCTT), Missouri Telehealth Network (MTN), and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center-Telemedicine. …Continue reading
State Implements Telepsychiatry Initiative
North Carolina’s Office of Rural Health and Community Care (ORHCC) serves citizens in all 100 counties in the state ORHCC has recruited an average of 149 health professionals to chronically underserved areas of the state for each of the past six years. Last year alone, recruitment efforts attracted a record 160 number of primary care physicians, psychiatrists, and dentists to the state. …Continue reading
Mobile Tech to Help Newborns
Globally, about 3.3 million newborns die within the first month of life, with neonatal infections, sepsis, pneumonia, and birth defects among the major killers according to the World Health Organization. …Continue reading
HRSA Issues Telehealth Grant Notice
On December 26, 2013, HRSA issued the notice “Telehealth Resource Center Grant Program (HRSA-14-079) to establish and develop Telehealth Resource Centers (TRC). The TRCs provide technical assistance to healthcare organizations, healthcare networks, and healthcare providers to help implement cost-effective telehealth programs to serve rural and medically underserved areas and populations. …Continue reading
FDA Seeks Access to EMR Data
The Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology and other offices in FDA evaluate drug and biologics risks and then promote their safe use. To further this effort, FDA on December 20, 2013 posted a notice looking for sources that have capabilities in this specific marketplace. …Continue reading