All Blog Posts Tagged 'policy' (20)

Understanding the final regulations for the new HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

The final regulations for the new HIPAA Breach Notification Rule place a far greater burden on Covered Entities and Business Associates than earlier. It is not enough for them to just notify individuals whose Protected Health Information (PHI) have been affected. For them to determine if a breach occurred, they must follow and document a very specific process. Their work does not end here. If no Breach occurred, then documentary evidence to this effect must be compiled and kept for…

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Added by Roger Steven on September 16, 2016 at 6:55am — No Comments

Congressional Testimony...Raynard Kington, Acting Director, NIH on "Stimulus" Funding Programs

Colleagues,

Excerpts from 26 March 2009 Congressional testimony from Acting Director of the NIH. In the testimony Dr Kingston explains precisely how the $10 billion NIH "Stimulus" (ARRA-American Recovery & Reinvestment Act) biomedical research program will be funded & managed...

"My testimony will be different from testimony that NIH presented in past years, because we facing unique times ... We are moving expeditiously to identify the best science and support it… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 31, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

NIH Announces New Grant Category... "GO" Grants ... $1m minimum

Colleagues,

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established a new program entitled Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” hereafter called the ”GO” grants program.

This new program will support projects that address large, specific biomedical and biobehavioral research endeavors that will benefit from significant 2-year funds without the expectation of continued… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 23, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

NIH Announces Opportunity for Active Grants to Request Additional Supplemental Funds

Colleagues,

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH Research Grants to request administrative supplements for the purpose accelerating the tempo of scientific research on active grants. Support for these supplements will come from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Recovery Act” or “ARRA”), Public Law 111-5. Consistent with the intent of the Recovery Act, the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 21, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

NIH Challenge Grants (RFA-OD-09-003) – New Funding Opportunity for Small Businesses (due date: April 27, 2009)

Colleagues,

I have gone thru all the topic descriptions, and truly, there is something here for almost everybody. $1m over two years...

NIH has received new funds for Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010 as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5. The NIH has designated at least $200 million in FYs 2009 - 2010 for a new initiative called the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research. Read More…..

This new… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 19, 2009 at 9:08pm — No Comments

MedTechIQ member, Neal Neuberger...Health IT Money Should be Spent Educating Providers

Colleagues,

As reported in Government Health IT News ... MedTechIQ member, Neal Neuberger, executive director of the Institute for e-Health Policy, said a good portion of the $2 billion set aside for the Office of the National Coordinator should be spent on educating providers on the law's fine points, including timetables, incentives, and financial risks associated with health IT adoption.

Either that, or more funding should be made available – possibly through federal… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 18, 2009 at 3:54pm — 2 Comments

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Sets Up Office to Manage Stimulus Funds

Colleagues,

As reported in Health IT News ... The Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday the creation of the Office of Recovery Act Coordination to help ensure the timely, organized and transparent distribution of economic stimulus funds managed by HHS.

Among those funds is $19 billion for healthcare information technology. Of the total, $2 billion will go to the Office of the National Coordinator for healthcare IT (ONC) to be distributed for various… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 13, 2009 at 10:14am — No Comments

Billions in U.S. stimulus money seen for technology

Colleagues,

As reported in Federal Computer Weekly...As much as $100 billion in economic stimulus law funding may flow to technology companies for energy efficiency, broadband, electronic health records and education technology, according to an analysis by TechAmerica.

About half of the $100 billion will be distributed through state governments and agencies, said Olga Grkavac, the organization's executive vice president for the public sector. “We expect about $50 billion… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 10, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Intelligent Healthcare Information Integration 3/2/09

Colleagues,

As recommended by MedTechIQ member, Ron Pion, MD, an excellent post from Dr. Gregg Alexander, a grunt-in-the-trenches pediatrician and geek.

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U.S. Healthcare Overhaul? Sure … in 5 Easy Steps!

The unfettered free market system has done about as well for Healthcare as it did for its cousin, Finance. I personally believe in capitalism, but perhaps guided capitalism is necessary… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 4, 2009 at 6:56am — No Comments

Harvard Business School...Upcoming Healthcare Delivery Programs

Colleagues,

Thanks to Clymer...JIR for bringing this too our attention...

As part of its mission to bring together the School's extensive research, thought leadership, and interest in the business and management of healthcare, Harvard Business School (HBS) has collaborated with the HBS Healthcare Initiative to offer two innovative programs geared toward improving the performance of the healthcare delivery system. If appropriate, I encourage you to apply for participation… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on February 21, 2009 at 9:12pm — No Comments

New Member Update - Happy New Year! (Part 2)

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

Please welcome the following new Members of the MedTechIQ community...

Academia:

Yvette Butler: HIV/AIDS

Alice Watland: COO of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Washington, DC

Tracy W Messer, APR: Web Development & Communications

Brendan Janishefski: Graphic Design

Jay Srini: Innovation , healthcare policy and… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 8:15am — No Comments

President-Elect Obama names Holdren, Varmus, Lander and Lubchenco to Key Scientific Posts

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As reported in Scientific American...President-elect Barack Obama recently named more top science advisors. John Holdren, a 64-year-old physicist and environmental policy professor at Harvard, will be his chief science adviser, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. Obama also named chairs of the Presidential Council of Advisers on Science and Technology: Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus and biologist Eric Lander, who heads the Broad Institute, a… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 23, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Next NIH Director Faces Budget Issues ... Health Agency Has Seen Funding Stall

Colleagues,

As reported in today's Washington Post...The director of the National Institutes of Health may be the least political of a president's political appointments.

The director's job is not to promote administration priorities -- in fact, it's the opposite. The chief, if unwritten, task is to keep the president and Congress from meddling with the agency.

The NIH this fiscal year will spend just under $29.5 billion on basic and applied medical research.… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 13, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

NIH Taking Heat

NIH (National Institutes of Health), under significant pressure, has decided to review its current policy which defines & regulates awardee conflicts of interest. A Senate oversight committee has expressed growing concern that NIH rules are lax, and not rigorously enforced. Examples cited have largely involved pharmaceuticals, but evolving NIH rules will apply to all… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on December 9, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Obama Says Health IT Included in Economic Stimulus Package

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

As reported in iHealthBeat....In a radio address last Saturday, President-elect Barack Obama said health IT would be included in an economic stimulus package being drafted by members of Congress, Government Health IT reports.

Obama said that modernizing the country's hospitals would be part of a major effort to finance an upgrade of the U.S. broadband infrastructure. He noted that the U.S. has dropped to 15th in… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 8, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

New Member Update

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

We hope MedTechIQ members in the United States had a great Thanksgiving.

The MedTechIQ community now numbers over 280 experts, executives, policy makers & enthusiasts of medical technology.

Some new members include:

Industry:

Kate Eltzroth: Consultant, Medical Technology Development/ Investments & Congressional Policy

Raj: Health Information… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 1, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

In Praise of Senator Ted Kennedy For His Contributions to Biomedical Science

William,

If you haven't seen this, I thought you might find this interesting...

As reported today in Xconomy/Boston, commentary by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor at MIT, and formerly the director of the Institute's Center for Cancer Research, the head of its Department of Biology, and the founding director of the McGovern Institute. Dr. Sharp won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on "discontinuous genes" in mammalian… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

"Who Killed Healthcare?"

MedTechIQ Member Oliver Lubin writes...

...on the subject of publications, not sure if i mentioned but just finished Regina Hertzlinger's "Who killed healthcare?" i know im new to the group so im sure this has already been touted before, but in case it hasn't, its a great read with a lot of practical thoughts. highly recommended.

-Oliver

Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure

See:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Transition Watch - Plum IT jobs in Obama administration

A message from Clymer.."CC"..Conrad Clyburn to all members of Bio-Medical Informatics on MedTechIQ!

Colleagues.

This went out to the Biomedical Informatics Group a couple of days ago and I thought you might find it interesting also...

Government Computer News reports...The Obama administration will need to fill more than 300 presidentially appointed technology positions, with 21 of them being chief information officers, NextGov reports.

The jobs… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 22, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy

Check out the Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy Their raison d'etre is explained as follows:

In the last thirty years a major revolution has occurred in the scientific understanding of complex systems—systems where the components are strongly interrelated, self-organizing and dynamic whether biological, ecological, technical or social—and complexity science represents a new interdisciplinary approach to studying these types of… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on October 2, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments