The American Heart Association (AHA) www.heart.org awarded a grant for $3.7 million to Children’s National Health System https://childrensnational.org based in Washington D.C., to launch a Rheumatic Heart Disease Center. (more…)
SpinDx Detects Diseases in Minutes
Sandia National Laboratories www.sandia.gov operated by Lockheed Martin for the Department of Energy https://energy.gov has demonstrated that their SpinDx system can now simultaneously detect dozens of diseases including HIV and Tuberculosis in just 15 minutes. (more…)
Grant Awarded to Researchers
Researchers at the University of Utah https://healthcare.utah.edu, Intermountain Healthcare https://intermountainhealthcare.org, and the Huntsman Cancer Institute www.huntsmancancer.org, recently received a grant for $3.8 million from the National Cancer Institute www.cancer.gov (NCI) to develop an advanced cancer screening tool. (more…)
HRSA Looks Ahead to FY 2018
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) https://www.hrsa.gov within HHS has forecasted about 40 funding opportunities for Fiscal Year 2018. This includes about 765 expected awards and nearly $2 billion in potential funding to go to cities, states, and local community-based organizations. (more…)
Regenstrief Institute Receives Award
Matching patients to their medical records from multiple healthcare providers is critical to medical care, but this can be challenging due to incomplete and inaccurate records. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.ahrq.gov has awarded a five year $1.7 million grant to Regenstrief Institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) located in Indiana, to support the development and testing of automated patient identification approaches. (more…)
NIH & VentureWell Award Projects
Tools to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and latent tuberculosis were among the winning projects in the “Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams” (DUBUT) prize challenge and competition. The teams developed prototypes of devices to advance technology and improve human health. (more…)
ATA’s EDGE 2017 Conference
The American Telemedicine Association’s EDGE 2017 conference to take place October 3-4, 2017 in Washington D.C https://ataedge.org/about-edge-2017 will push the boundaries of what is possible, what is needed, and how to connect the dots between practice, policy and delivery. Attendees will take a role in discussing issues that are going to shape the future of healthcare and innovation for years to come. (more…)