The University of Notre Dame https://www.nd.edu has announced that the University received a gift for $20 million from Douglas and Diana Berthiaume to support the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health https://precisionhealth.nd.edu. (more…)
Montana Investing $20M in HIE
Greg Gianforte, Governor of Montana https://governor.mt.gov, and Ben Tyrell, CEO, Big Sky Care Connect (BSCC) https://www.mtbscc.org Montana’s state designated HIE, along with Director Adam Meier of the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) https://dphhs.mt.gov, have announced a $20 million investment in the state’s HIE. (more…)
HHS Commits $300M to CARB-X
The Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator referred to as CARB-X https://carb-x.org is a global non-partisan partnership led by Boston University https://www.bu.edu with funding provided by BARDA https://aspr.hhs.gov, within HHS, and Wellcome https://wellcome.org, a global charity. (more…)
DiMe Launches Project
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) https://dime.society.org has launched a collaborative project with Abbott, Consumer Technology Association (CTA), FDA, Google, and the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science to develop tools to help transform product and regulatory strategy for digital health solution providers. (more…)
MGH’s Study Funded by NIH
The study conducted by funding from NIH’s “Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) Initiative” discussed in MGH’s 2022 Annual Report, addresses the wide range of people who live in pain and those that use drugs, and also reports that one half of psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders (SUD) start by age 18 and three quarters by 24. (more…)
LifePoint Investing in STeM
LifePoint Health https://lifepointhealth.net will lead an investment in Specialist TeleMed (STeM) https://specialisttelemed.com, a multi-specialty telemedicine provider for hospitals, clinics, and remote locations. (more…)
Geisinger Migrating to the Cloud
Geisinger https://www.geisinger/org has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) https://aws.amazon.com as their strategic cloud provider. This project will be one of the largest EHR cloud migrations to AWS to date. (more…)