Tag: National Sleep Research Resource
In brief: Clock ticks on MPP, MAC outlines responsibilities
October 25, 2013HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - All eyes in Washington, D.C., last week may have been on the Affordable Care Act and the website that couldn't, but that didn't stop stakeholders from meeting with legislative staffers to get a sense of what the industry might accomplish before the end of the year. “We are hearing that they will be doing a fix to take care of doctors before the holidays and that's the vehicle we've been looking for to include the market pricing program (MPP),” said Seth Johnson,...
Resource center will make sleep studies available to researchers
October 21, 2013HME News Staff
BETHESDA, Md. - Brigham and Women's Hospital and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will use a $7.7 million grant to create the National Sleep Research Resource, Sleep Review reported Oct. 20. The five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will allow the institutions to provide data from more than 50,000 studies to researchers. “The project represents efforts to use big data in powerful and cost effective ways, leveraging prior investments in research data...