The Social Security Administration (SSA) one of the largest disability insurers in the world requests 15 million medical records annually from 500,000 providers to make decisions on over 3 million disability claims. To view the medical records, SSA uses the eHealth Exchange to obtain information from health information exchanges and healthcare organizations and expects to expand. (more…)
Safety-Net Populations: Innovative Ideas
Margaret Laws MPP, Director for California Healthcare Foundation’s Innovations for the Underserved, wants to see individuals, organizations, and companies develop new ideas so that underserved population in California and elsewhere will be able to afford healthcare. She was speaking recently at the Partners HealthCare Connected Health Symposium held in Boston October 23-24, 2013. (more…)
After Sandy: New Tech for Emergencies
One year after Hurricane Sandy, innovators are working to design new disaster response solutions. Recently, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy challenged the nation’s top public and private sector innovators to brainstorm for ideas, products, tools, apps, and services to help aid in disaster response. (more…)
Quality & Patient Safety Efforts
The Illinois Hospital Association (IHA) at www.ihatoday.org through the Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality’s report “Improving Quality Care in Illinois Hospitals” is based on quality achievements at 200 hospitals and health systems across the state. Overall results show reductions in seven key categories resulting in 843 instances where patient harm was avoided for a cost savings of more than $18 million. (more…)
EHRs for Low Resource Settings
SmartCare a CDC Zambia initiated nationally scalable EHR system is designed specifically for low resource and disconnected settings. Dimagi a company headquartered in Cambridge Massachusetts is worked with the Zambian Ministry of Health, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Tulane University Technical Assistance Project Ethiopia (TUTAPE), and other groups to develop the SmartCare Platform. (more…)
Care Delivery Technologies Discussed
A panel discussion on “New Care Delivery Technologies” held at the Partners HealthCare Connected Health Symposium on October 24, 2013 in Boston was moderated by Eleanor Chye, PhD, Assistant Vice President, ForHealth at AT&T Advanced Business Solutions. She heads the AT&T ForHealth team founded in 2010 to accelerate the delivery of innovative mobile cloud-based and networking services and applications. (more…)
NIAID to Develop Data Center
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) within NIH supports research to develop vaccines, therapeutics, medical devices, and medical diagnostics for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of infectious and immune-mediated diseases. (more…)