Over the past 12 years, researchers at the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) www.ucsb.edu have worked to develop an Artificial Pancreas (AP). …Continue reading
UMMC Delivering Telestroke Services
Carroll Hospital Center www.carrollhospitalcenter.org physicians in Maryland now have 24/7 remote access to the University of Maryland Medical Center’s (UMMC) http://unms.org Brain Attack Team via a new telemedicine service for stroke patients. …Continue reading
Mobile Apps Helps Clinicians and Patients
Inspira has just announced that it will deploy both the Practice Unite www.practiceunite.com patient and clinician application in partnership with Futura Mobility www.futuramobility.com and Pursuit Healthcare Advisors www.pursuithealthcare.com on a single platform. …Continue reading
NIH Issues FOA for mHealth Research
On March 2, 2015, NIH and participating Institutes issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement titled “Mobilizing Research: A Research Resource to Enhance mHealth Research” http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-15-129.html. Funding for $2,000,000 will be used to support a resource called “Mobilizing Research” to enable researchers to rapidly evaluate mobile and wireless (mHealth) technologies. …Continue reading
Dr. Sanjay Gupta to Deliver Keynote
Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN’s Emmy award-winning Chief Medical Correspondent will deliver the opening keynote address on May 3, at the ATA 2015 “20th Annual Telemedicine Meeting and Trade Show” to be held May 2-5, 2015 in Los Angeles. …Continue reading
Bills to Improve Dental Care
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) www.sanders.senate.gov (S 570) and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) http://cummings.house.gov (HR 1055) each have introduced similar legislation to dramatically improve access to oral health for vulnerable and underserved populations www.congress.gov. …Continue reading
Awards to Accelerate Commercialization
The NIH SBIR program www.nhlbi.nih.gov/research/funding/SBIR provides the small business community with seed funding to support the development of a broad array of commercial products to detect, diagnose, treat, and prevent disease. …Continue reading