An additional $169 million in ACA funding was just announced by HHS to go to 266 Community Health Centers in 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to deliver comprehensive primary healthcare services. (more…)
PCORI to Award Grants
Patients, their families, and clinicians face a wide range of complex and often confusing choices when it comes to addressing their health and healthcare concerns. Trustworthy information is needed to decide which option is best. (more…)
FDA Awards Contract to DNAnexus
FDA www.fda.gov will play an important role in the future when an individual’s medical care is tailored in part based on their unique characteristics and genetic make-up. This will require the FDA to work collaboratively to detect and interpret genetic variants. Today, the FDA is developing an informatics community and support for what is called “precisionFDA”. (more…)
Patent Awarded to KSU
A U.S. patent was awarded to Kansas State University Research Foundation www.k-state.edu/tech.transfer for technology able to detect the early stages of cancer before physical symptoms appear. The patent is titled “Fluorescence Assays for Serine Porteases”. (more…)
IHS Releases Funding Announcement
The Indian Health Service (IHS) www.ihs.gov Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) is accepting new and competing continuation cooperative agreement applications for their “Community-Directed Grant Program”. (more…)
Massachusetts Investing in Innovation
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) www.masslifesciences.com, an investment agency supporting life sciences innovation, research, development, and commercialization is charged with running a ten year $1 billion state-funded investment initiative. (more…)
HIMSS: Connected Health Conference
Recognizing that connected and mobile health technologies are now vital tools in care delivery and patient engagement, the HIMSS Connected Health Conference to be held November 8-11 2015 at the Gaylord National Resort in the Washington D.C. area will include not only the mHealth Summit but in addition, the Cyber Security and Population Health Summits which will take place simultaneously under the umbrella of the HIMSS Connected Health Conference. (more…)