Since the Western New York (WNY) Beacon Community has been connecting to HEALTHeLink, clinical outcomes and patient safety have improved. In 2010, the Western New York community with HEALTHeLINK as the lead grantee received a $16.1 million award, one of the largest Beacon community awards in the country. (more…)
DRDC to Help the Disabled
Today, birth defects, developmental and other disabilities, healthcare disparities in disability, and health and wellness for people with disabilities are not commonly noted in medical health education and services programs. (more…)
News from Georgia
Researchers at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University along with partners at Georgia Tech received a $4 million grant from NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The funding will be used to establish the “Health and Exposome Research Center: Understanding Lifetime Exposures” to be referred to as the HERCULES Center located at Emory. (more…)
Evolving Regulatory & Legal Issues
Key executives and leaders with related interests in the health technology field presented their ideas on evolving legal and federal regulatory requirements, lessons learned from real life experiences, and thoughts on privacy issues and rules. Neal Neuberger, Executive Director for the Institute for e-Health Policy welcomed the speakers at the Congressional Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics luncheon briefing held May 22nd on Capitol Hill. (more…)
Improving Medicaid Efficiency
In Alabama, Medicaid reform legislation to ultimately restructure the state’s healthcare delivery system for low-income citizens was approved in the Alabama Senate and delivered to the Governor for his signature. The legislation is based largely on the earlier recommendations of the Alabama Medicaid Advisory Commission’s recommendations that Alabama be divided into regions with a community-led network established to coordinate the healthcare of Medicaid patients in each region. (more…)
Register for ATA’s Telemedicine Summit
Don’t miss the opportunity to come to the American Telemedicine Association Federal Telemedicine Policy Summit on June 27-28, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington D.C to interact with Congress, key federal agencies, and influential policy thinkers about the latest developments affecting telemedicine. (more…)
Data Helps Prevent Injuries
The Defense Department’s goal is to understand threats in the field so that improved tactics, techniques, and procedures can be developed to prevent or mitigate traumatic injuries in combat. The “Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat” (JTAPIC) program is a partnership among DOD intelligence, operational, medical, and materiel development communities to collect, integrate, and analyze injury and operational data from the theater. (more…)