Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

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Kitware to Develop Novel Neuroimage Processing Methods for Traumatic Brain Injury

Press Release | Kitware, Inc. | January 23, 2013

The NIH-funded project will investigate new methods for better assessing Traumatic Brain Injury.
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Lifetime Cost Of Care Of Wounded

Jessica Wilde | Philly.com | August 27, 2013

No agency has calculated for higher survival rates, longer tours of duty, multiple injuries... Read More »

Many Younger Vets Among The Ranks Of Uninsured

Chris Adams | Union-Bulletin.com | November 20, 2012

More than a quarter of all veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan don’t have health insurance and aren’t part of the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, according to an analysis of VA data. Read More »

Military Medicine Center To Open At UCLA

Susan Abram | Los Angeles Daily News | November 7, 2013

The first university-based military medicine center on the West Coast will launch at UCLA, thanks to an initial $2 million gift from two sons who want to support their father’s dream of helping servicemen and women, school officials will announce today. Read More »

NIH-built Toolset Helps Researchers Share and Compare Data

Paul McCloskey | GCN | October 10, 2015

On battlefields across the Middle East and football fields in the United States, traumatic brain injury (TBI) has hit near-epidemic proportions in the past several years. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say it leads to 52,000 deaths and 275,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. each year. The spiraling caseload is pushing biomedical researchers to stretch their increasingly tight budgets and maximize their research to help prevent TBI and other serious health threats. Read More »

Obama Campaigns For Veterans' Mental Health

Scott Horsley | NPR | September 1, 2012

On Friday, President Obama was at Fort Bliss, Texas, where he spoke to troops and met with military families, including some who lost loved ones in Afghanistan. As that war winds down, the president is ordering additional help for those with invisible battle scars. A rash of suicides has shown mental injuries can be just as deadly as a roadside bomb. Read More »

Opinion: VA System Inadequate To Meet Veterans’ Health Care Needs

Gretchen Hammer | Health Policy Solutions | November 7, 2012

The promise of access to high-quality, affordable health care is one we can deliver on for our veterans if we continue to work together in communities to understand and address the health needs of veterans and their families and if we pursue all avenues to increase health insurance options for veterans who are currently without adequate health coverage.
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Pentagon Spent Over $4 Billion On Mental Health Treatment Between 2007 And 2012

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | August 22, 2013

The Congressional Research Service just put a price tag on the mental health costs of the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: about $4.5 billion between 2007 and 2012. The Defense Department spent $958 million on mental health treatment in 2012, roughly double the $468 million it spent in 2007. Read More »

Pentagon’s $18 Million Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Tool Fails To Deliver

Bob Brewin | Government Health IT | July 18, 2012

For at least two years the Military Health System has touted a software tool under development at a cost of more than $18 million as a way to help gather information about troops impaired by the signature wound of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- traumatic brain injury, which results from exposure to roadside bombs. But a six-week probe by Nextgov shows this tool has nothing to do with the management or assessment of TBI cases.

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Secretary McDonald Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun: VA is critical to medicine and vets

Press Release | US Department of Veterans Affairs | October 24, 2014

During preparation for my confirmation as secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), I was repeatedly asked, "Why doesn't VA just hand out vouchers allowing veterans to get care wherever they want?" For a department recovering from serious issues involving health care access and scheduling of appointments, that was a legitimate question. After nine weeks at VA, travel to 31 VA facilities in 15 cities, discussions with hundreds of veterans and VA clinicians, meetings with 75 Members of Congress, two hearings before the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs committees and dozens of meetings with Veterans Service Organizations and other stakeholders, I can answer that question. Veterans need VA, and many more Americans benefit from VA. Read More »

SGT. SHAFT: Civilian Population Should Have Access To Talking Prescription System

Sgt. Shaft | Washington Times | November 6, 2012

"I know that you are very interested in the safety of visually impaired veterans when taking their prescriptions. You understand all too well the danger of not reading prescription labels and the possibility of making a tragic mistake..." Read More »

Substance Abuse In The Military Is A ‘Public Health Crisis,’ Study Finds

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | September 17, 2012

Drug and alcohol abuse by military personnel and their families constitutes a “public health crisis” that requires the intervention of senior leaders to develop consistent and cohesive prevention, screening, and treatment services, the Institute of Medicine charged in a report released today. Read More »

Suicide Among Veterans Receiving Less Attention Than Active-Duty Deaths

Staff Writer | Statesman.com | September 30, 2012

Many family members noticed dramatic changes in their loved ones after they returned from the war and before committing suicide. Read More »

Task Force Calls For More 'Evidence Based' Treatment Of Veterans

David Perera | FierceGovernment | March 26, 2013

The assessment tool the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments use to assess cognitive function after a head injury, the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metric, lacks clear scientific evidence supporting its effectiveness, says a report from an Institute of Medicine task force. Read More »

Team Demonstrates Digital Health Platform for Department of Veterans Affairs

Press Release | Georgia Institute of Technology | January 31, 2017

“Liberate the data.” That was a principal design goal for a team of public-private health care technology collaborators established by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Veterans Health Administration to develop a working and scalable proof-of-concept digital health platform (DHP) to support the department’s long-term vision. The open-source project demonstrated both proven and emerging technologies for interoperability and advanced functionality innovations from both the public and private sectors...

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