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Jan.8,2015

PERSONALIZING PREVENTION: The Future of Health Technology

By Gillian Christie, Health Innovation Analyst, Vitality Institute and

Derek Yach, Executive Director, Vitality Institute

An era of personalized prevention is taking hold across populations globally. In 1926, rudimentary technological applications for epidemiological surveillance were piloted. In 1995, Nelson Mandela demonstrated the potential of technology by endorsing TELECOM. In 2014, mobile health enables us to track our health wirelessly and in real-time; tomorrow, health technology will be smaller, faster, friendlier, and individualized to usher in personalized prevention. (more…)

NIH Funds 1st Multicenter Clinical Trial

Jan.7,2015

About 14 percent of the adult population in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, 10 percent are diabetic, and 33 percent have hypertension. Also, about half of people with chronic kidney disease are diabetic and a large proportion have high blood pressure. (more…)

Partnership to Develop State Broadband

Jan.7,2015

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear http://governor.ky.gov and U.S. Representative Hal Rogers http://halrogers.house.gov have announced a new public-private partnership to develop a robust, reliable, fiber, backbone infrastructure to bring high speed internet connectivity to every corner of the Commonwealth. (more…)

UCB Collaboration to Study Epilepsy

Jan.7,2015

Epilepsy, one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system affects about 65 million people worldwide and more than 2 million in the U.S. Anyone can develop epilepsy as it occurs across all ages, races, and genders. (more…)

Mobile App to Diagnose Head Injuries

Jan.7,2015

In 2013, more than 27,000 cases of traumatic brain injury were diagnosed across all the main service branches stationed around the globe, according to the Department of Defense. That number is almost triple the number of cases diagnosed in 2000 when DOD first began recording TBI statistics. (more…)

Boosting mHealth Across Africa

Jan.7,2015

The U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) www.usaid.gov and global communications operator Orange www.orange.com/en/home have formed a new alliance to develop innovations in mHealth to help developing countries in Africa. The announcement was made at the Global mHealth Forum co-located with the 2014 mHealth Summit held in December in the Washington D.C. area. (more…)

Navy Issues SBIR Solicitation

Jan.7,2015

The need for large data sets representing an individual patient’s health status requires decision support tools to support rapid and accurate pattern classification and hypothesis testing. Also more effective ways to store and retrieve patient histories are required. (more…)

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EXTRA to Federal Telemedicine News

NIH Funds 1st Multicenter Clinical Trial

Partnership to Develop State Broadband

UCB Collaboration to Study Epilepsy

Mobile App to Diagnose Head Injuries

Boosting mHealth Across Africa

Navy Issues SBIR Solicitation

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