For nearly two decades, CDs have been the primary medium for medical image exchanges between providers and patients. In the mid-1990’s, CDs provided a solution to the point-of-care and transportation issues of bulky, static film and reports. Recent years have brought a widespread adoption of electronic methods for storing and sharing information in the healthcare sector---namely EMR and now interoperability. Despite the rapid (and necessary) adoption of HIT, CDs remain the primary means of
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NIH Awards Mayo Clinic $142M to Create Biobank for Precision Medicine Initiative
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Mayo Clinic $142 million over five years as part of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative to create the world’s largest biobank for the PMI Cohort Program. Mayo Clinic will use the funding to support the collection, storage and distribution for research use of biological samples known as biospecimens. Laboratory analyses of the biospecimens, including chemical and genetic tests, will be a key component of the core PMI Cohort Program
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Leidos, NIH Launches Portal to Re-accelerate Biomedical Research Funding
Leidos, a health, national security and engineering solutions company is teaming up with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch OnPAR (Online Partnership to Accelerate Research) that will provide new funding opportunities for scientific projects. The Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR) was conceived to re-accelerate the biomedical research and development enterprise by seeking a larger return on NIH's peer review investment on research proposals evaluated
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Specialty Article: Growing Pains: Medical Device Interoperability
Both provider organizations and medical device vendors have made significant, if slow-going, progress over the last several years to network their digitally-enabled medical devices. Recent strides in both the regulatory and standards arenas have provided renewed impetus on the part of both stakeholder groups to bring more interoperability to disparate medical devices, resulting in better security and quality of patient data.As healthcare providers continue their steady march toward implementing
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