HP Enterprise Services announced that it has signed a $220 million contract with the Indiana Department of Administration on behalf of the state’s Family and Social Services Administration. (more…)
Update on UTHealth Device
Scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have developed a device that measures coagulation parameters within a sample of clotting blood. Dr. Charles S. Cox, Jr, Dr. Brijesh Gill, and Kevin Aroom, scientists at UTHealth developed the device to allow the administration of bedside coagulation tests and reduce unnecessary blood transfusions. The device referred to as “MEMS Based Blood Coagulometer” is available for licensing. (more…)
RWJF Announces $120,000 Challenge
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) just launched a competition among technology developers to improve consumer understanding by using of data to compare hospital prices. Winners of the “RWJF Hospital Price Transparency Challenge” will share $120,000 in prize money. Winners of the visualization component of the challenge will be announced at the Health 2.0 Fall Conference in October 2013. The deadline for submissions is August 25, 2013. (more…)
NIHCM Foundation Seek LOIs
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOI) for research projects with the potential to improve the U.S. healthcare system. Through their research grant program, the Foundation will award up to $150,000 in two or three grants. (more…)
POWERDOT Wins $500,000
Heritage Provider Network (HPN) will continue to award their $3 million Heritage Health Prize as announced at the Health Datapalooza Forum held in Washington D.C on June 3-4, 2013. So far, this big data challenge has attracted more than 30,000 entries worldwide as teams of data scientists have worked to develop models using health industry data. The big data Heritage Health Prize is aimed at tackling the nearly $40 billion the nation spends on avoidable hospitalizations. (more…)
FDA Approves Blood Tracking Device
The FDA just cleared “iTrace for Blood Centers “(version 1.0.924.0) that will use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in blood centers and improve blood safety by preventing the release of unsuitable blood components. The device is manufactured by SysLogic Inc., at www.syslogicinc.com based in Brookfield Wisconsin. (more…)
Standardizing Processes &Technology
Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy Surgeon General spells out the need for standardized processes and technology across Navy medicine in an article appearing in Navy and Marine Cops Medical News published by the U.S Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. (more…)