Accenture https://www.accenture.com and Microsoft https://microsoft.com are assisting Mount Sinai Health System’s transition to the cloud to help modernize the infrastructure and help Mount Sinai https://mountsinai.org reinvest cost savings. (more…)
Developing Drugs for Rare Diseases
The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) https://www.fda.gov is trying to develop therapies for the more than 30 million people living with a rare disease in the U.S. (more…)
TDOC & Amazon Partnering
Credit Suisse’s https://www.credit-suisse.com quick thoughts on the announcement by Teladoc Health (TDOC) that the new integration with Amazon Alexa will be launched with voice activated general medical virtual care on supported Echo devices (e.g. Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show).
Monitoring Device for Epilepsy
There are more than 3.4 million adults and children in the U.S with epilepsy and about one million experience seizures uncontrolled by medicine. (more…)
Strengthening Public Health
CDC has released their forecasted grant notice titled “CDC-RFA-OE22-2203 Strengthening the Public Health Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems.” (more…)
NRHA Receives $7M Donation
NRHA https://www.RuralHealthWeb.org has received a one-time unrestricted donation in the amount of $7 million from philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott. (more…)
Establishing New AI Program
Cedars-Sinai https://www.cedars-sinai.org has established their new Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Program to explore how AI can be applied to help discover major modern medical breakthroughs. (more…)