News briefs and information from Federal agencies and Capitol Hill on government activities, legislation, and grants of interest to the telemedicine, telehealth, and health IT community. Edited by Carolyn Bloch.
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology have just announced that $235 million is available to support the “Beacon Community Program” (BCP). The goal for the BCP is to enable...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) the state designee for health information technology developed the web site www.kanhit.org to let the public know about the state’s Health Information Exchange. As the operational and strategic...
MIT’s Touch Lab has developed a device called the BlindAid system to enable the visually impaired to feel their way around a virtual model of a room or building. Mandayam Srinivasan, Director of the MIT Touch Lab and affiliated with the Research...
To develop innovative healthcare education initiatives, the University of Arizona’s Phoenix Biomedical Campus has just opened the Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth or referred to as the T-Health Institute. The Institute is working in...
Governor Edward G. Rendell’s Office of Health Care Reform issued a draft strategic plan for the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange (PHIX) on November 30th. The draft strategic plan details how the state can best transition to an electronic...
