With funding from the 59th Medical Wing at Joint Base San Antonio, in Texas, Air Force and Army medical researchers are developing a HIPAA-compliant smart phone app to connect providers downrange with on-call ophthalmologists either in theater or at a clinic to assist with eye injuries. (more…)
JLABS to Launch in D.C.
Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC https://www.jnjinnovation.com and Children’s National Health System (Children’s National) https://childrensnational.org are launching JLABS @ Washington D.C https://www.jlabs.jnjinoation.com to be located at the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus in Washington D.C. (more…)
GAO’s Goals for Healthcare
Gene L Dodaro, 8th Comptroller General of the U.S and Head of the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) https://www.gao.gov appeared before the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, before the Senate on April 1, 2019 to report on GAO’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Request. (more…)
Preventing Adverse Reactions to Meds
The Flinn Foundation, https://flinn.org a privately endowed philanthropic grant-making organization, awarded the Division of Clinical Data Analytics and Decision Support (CDADS) at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine https://medicine.arizona.edu in Phoenix, $1.5 million which is being matched by Banner Health https://www.bannerhealth.com. (more…)
Grants Awarded to Indian Organizations
The Indian Health Service’s (HIS) Office of Urban Indian Health Programs, on April 1, 2019 https://www.ihs.gov/urban awarded grants totaling more than $7.5 million to 30 urban Indian organizations across the U.S. (more…)
Company’s Dual-Sided Marketplace
Credit Suisse an international financial services company, as part of their Healthcare Disruptive Technologies & Innovations series, hosted a small group investor dinner in April with Dr. David Berman, Founder & CEO and Chad Spooner CFO of Slingshot Health in New York City https://credit-suisse.com/us/en.html. The discussion centered on the company’s Dual-Sided Online Marketplace Model. (more…)
Tech to Help Aging Adults
The National Science and Technology Council established to coordinate science and technology https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/nstc established by the Executive Branch to coordinate science and technology policy for the Executive Branch, is overseen by the Office of Science and Technology Policy http://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp. (more…)