Qualcomm Life announced new collaborative efforts at the 2013 mHealth Summit held December 8-11 at National Harbor in the Washington D.C area. Qualcomm Life’s six new collaborators include the American Heart Association, WebMD, BioScrip, MedStar Health, iMPak Health and DELTA. The collaborators are taking part with Qualcomm Life to help consumers and clinicians use wireless solutions to better coordinate and manage care beyond hospital walls. (more…)
AHRQ’s Healthcare Scanning System
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has established the “Healthcare Horizon Scanning System” led by the ECRI Institute with partners Emerson Consultants, Inc., Mathematica Policy Research Inc., Provider Resources, Inc., and Thomson Reuter (Healthcare) Inc. (more…)
Health Centers Adopting EHRs
HealthFinders Collaborative, Inc. a free community health clinic provides primary care, medication assistance, chronic disease management programs, and patient advocacy. The health clinic helps provide care to low income and uninsured and underserved residents in Rice County situated between Northfield and Fairbault, Minnesota. (more…)
$4 Million Gift for Telehealth Suite
A $4 million gift is establishing a state-of-the-art telehealth suite at the UCLA Health System program called Operation Mend made possible by Lockheed Martin headquartered in Bethesda Maryland. (more…)
Developing Human Milk Banks
The Seattle-based “Program for Appropriate Technology in Health” (PATH) is advancing a safety management system based on a platform called FoneAstra. This system leverages mobile phones to precisely monitor flash-heat pasteurization of donor breast milk. The system was originally designed to use in the home but is now being used to treat babies in South Africa. The goal is to evaluate the FoneAstra system to use in resource-limited countries. (more…)
VA Targets Mental Health
The Veterans Administration (VA) is looking at ways to improve care for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan since 37 percent of these veterans receive a mental health diagnosis. (more…)
Funds for Connect America Authorized
The Connect America Fund part of the FCC’s initiative to bring broadband access to rural communities in 41 states has authorized $255,723,850 so that five carriers will be able to use the funds in rural portions of their services areas. The five carriers are AT&T, CenturyLink, Fairpoint Communications, Frontier Communications, and Windstream Corp. (more…)