Technology Today's June 30th Radio Show Addresses Health IT.Wonder-Cure or Expensive Placebo?

The #1 rated technology talk show on Internet Radio’s host Ajay Gupta Discusses the Growth of the Cybersecurity, Innovation and its Impact on Healthcare IT

It’s an industry being positioned as everything from the next great frontier of job creation to the innovations capable of revolutionizing how medicine is delivered in American while dramatically cutting its costs. The desire to create meaningful use of health data, to empower providers, physicians and others to provide better care while simultaneously, lowering costs is a goal that will take years to achieve.  This week, we look at the current state of Health IT in America and compare the industry and our current practices to those of European nations which are often used as models for our own reforms.

Technology Today is the #1 rated technology talk show on Internet radio for a rapidly growing worldwide audience of people who are curious about technology and who need an interactive information channel that can help them make sense of how innovations in business and personal technologies are shaping our lives.  This week’s show will discuss, in-depth, the opportunities and challenges the United States faces in implementing integrated electronic health records (EHRs), a nation-wide data exchange network and improve over-all patient care.  

We’ll be joined by Hans Agarwal, Practice Leader at Everis, a multi-national consulting firm operating on both sides of the Atlantic.  We will examine the current state of health IT and discuss who is leading the way, what is working and what European models can the United States adopt to improve our current status in health IT.

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WHO:             Hans Agarwal, Practice Leader at Everis, a multi-national consulting, IT and Outsourcing Professional Services Firm

WHAT:           Technology Today Radio Show – Healthcare IT…Wonder-Cure or Expensive Placebo?

WHEN:          Thursday, June 30th, 4 PM EST

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First Mobile MRI Systems to be Sent to Afghanistan Theater

From Navy Medicine Public Affairs

FORT DETRICK, Md. (NNS) -- Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC) announced the award of a contract for two mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems to Philips Healthcare June 7, to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury of wounded warriors in Afghanistan.

The Navy has been working closely with the Army and Air Force to field an unprecedented MRI capability for deployed forces as part of the overall comprehensive approach to diagnosing and treating concussive injuries.

The procurement of the MRI systems has been a joint initiative between NMLC's technical and operational partners including: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U.S. Army Medical Material Agency, Chief of Mobility Command, the Veterans Administration, and the Army's Rapid Equipping Force.

While there is no clinical requirement for MRI systems in battlefield trauma care, they will be informative and may lead to cutting-edge discoveries in the diagnosis, treatment and enhanced follow-up care for wounded personnel with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI).

"The acquisition of an MRI system for use in a combat theater is something new and provides some interesting challenges but it's amazing to see those challenges being overcome so quickly," said James B. Poindexter, commanding officer of NMLC. "This is a complex and unprecedented acquisition issue and our team is working hard to field this equipment as soon as possible while ensuring it will do the job we intend it to do, taking care of our men and women in uniform close to the battlefield."

According to Poindexter, the MRI systems destined for Afghanistan are unlike anything commercially available. The units need to be self-contained, requiring that they be designed from the ground up to account for the many unique and challenging working environments that will be encountered in combat theater such as vast temperature differences, fine blowing sand and power issues. They must also meet size and weight requirements to be capable of being airlifted into theater.

"We are taking prudent measures to ensure successful deployment of this important equipment by late summer," said Poindexter. "We continue to aggressively address every element involved including engineering, logistical and technical issues."

The contract to build the MRI systems was awarded to Philips after a competitive, best value acquisition process.

"We are honored to help improve access to care by bringing advanced medical technologies to Afghanistan as part of our longstanding efforts to support soldiers and veterans," said Joe Robinson, senior vice president, Government and Enterprise Solutions, Philips Healthcare.

NMLC is the center of logistics expertise for Navy Medicine, designing, executing and administering individualized state-of-the-art solutions to meet customer's medical material and healthcare needs. Headquartered at Fort Detrick, Md., NMLC supports the U.S. Navy with acquisition and logistics systems training, healthcare services strategies, operational forces support, medical equipment and logistics solutions, acquisition management, deployable platforms and eye wear fabrication. NMLC has responsibility as technical manager of the Navy's Direct Healthcare Services Contracting Program and has formal agreements with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard to provide medical logistics and materiel management information and medical mobilization planning assistance.

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