AHRQ on November 13, 2013 issued a Funding Opportunity Notice (PA-14-001) with plans to fund exploratory and developmental research grants that would provide solid evidence that health IT improves healthcare quality. (more…)
Telemedicine Corridor Rapidly Growing
The Northern Arizona Telemedicine Corridor served by the University of Arizona’s Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP) is now referred to as a “National Model of a Telehealth Ecosystem.” Through the years, telemedicine growth has rapidly occurred in northern Arizona along a 340 mile long corridor surrounding Interstate 40 between Arizona’s borders with New Mexico and California. (more…)
Future of HIT: 2013 WEDI Report
Louis W. Sullivan M.D former Secretary of HHS and the creator of the “Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange” (WEDI) released the 2013 WEDI report on December 5th at a briefing held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. (more…)
Progress for AFIRM’s Program
The Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) is funded and managed by the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) with funds also available through the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of the Surgeon General, NIH, and the VA. Plus funds are made available through local public and private matching funds. So far, AFRIM has received $85 million in federal funds and $180 million in local and private funding. (more…)
Severe Weather & Medical Devices
Severe weather-related events can have an impact on the operation of medical devices in healthcare settings and in the home. As a result, FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health decided to do a small sample survey to address how extreme weather events and conditions may affect the safety and quality of medical devices. (more…)
$3.4 Million for High Tech Project
University of Virginia (UVA) received a $3.4 million grant from NIH to turn an ordinary smart phone into an artificial pancreas that will transform the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes. The grant will fund a new network approach to artificial pancreas design using distributed computing between local and cloud systems to allow for the real-time adjustment of insulin delivery based on the individual need. (more…)
FDA Clears NG Sequencing Devices
More than 10 million Americans carry Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and in the U.S. alone 30,000 children and adults are affected with CF. Most children with CF are diagnosed by age 2 and live to be 37 which is the average life span for people with CF. (more…)