Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center www.wakehealth.edu is going to create a Technology Development Program, a $15 million program to develop the ideas, discoveries, and inventions coming from faculty and staff at the Medical Center to benefit patients in the community and worldwide. …Continue reading
Mobile Devices Help VA Providers
Last year, over 11,000 mobile devices (tablets) were deployed by the Veterans Administration to more than 30 medical facilities across the country as part of the “VA Mobile Health Provider Program” https://mobile.va.gov/providers. The devices are equipped with access to the VA network through Virtual Private Network (VPN) capabilities in the medical centers as well as off-site. …Continue reading
NIH Niche Assessment Program
The NIH Niche Assessment Program http://sbir.nih.gov/nap is designed to help small businesses jump start their commercialization efforts. All NIH SBIR/STTR Phase I awardees are eligible to apply to the Technology Niche Analyses® program provided for 177 awardees by Foresight Science & Technology located in Providence, Rhode Island. …Continue reading
Software for TBI Patients
Many TBI patients in the Navy don’t always perform their independent therapy or do their therapy properly, so as a result, they don’t always make steady progress toward a full recovery and may even risk further injury. …Continue reading
NIH Awards GWAC for IT
The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) http://nitaac.nih.gov has awarded its newest Government-Wide Acquisition Contract for information technology referred to as GWAC (CIO-CS). …Continue reading
China’s Growing Medical Device Market
According to the export office http://export.gov managed by the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration www.trade.gov, China’s medical device market is ranked second largest in the world. This fact is driven by an increase in discretionary income and a population that is aging faster than any other nation’s population. The market growing at about 20 percent since 2009, is expected to maintain this pace over the next three to five years. …Continue reading
Study on Head Impacts
Virginia Tech www.vt.edu is leading a $3.3 million multi-center five year study to track head impact exposure. Today, there are more than three million youth football players in the U.S comprising 75 percent of all U.S. football players. This study is the largest and most comprehensive biomedical study of youth football players to date. …Continue reading