The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in their Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) https://dhs.gov/science-and-technology, along with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) https://cisa.gov are partners working together to create a laboratory. (more…)
Intermountain & Zipline Partnering
Zipline https://flyzipline.com has announced a partnership with Intermountain Healthcare https://intermountainhealthcare.org to deliver prescriptions and medical supplies to patients in the Salt Lake City metro area. (more…)
HHS Seeks Tech to Reduce Disparities
The HHS Funding Opportunity Notice (FOA) posted December 10, 2021, titled Technology Development to Reduce Health Disparities Clinical Trial Optional encourages grant applications to develop and translate medical technologies aimed at reducing disparities. (more…)
Premier: Investor Day Takeaways
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com in attendance at Premier’s (PINC) https://www.premierinc.com virtual investor day, noted that the PINC management team emphasized their role as a healthcare improvement solutions provider across two of their business segments. PINC provided the LT CAGR growth rate of MSD-HSD for net revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted EPS for FY 2021-2024. (more…)
AHRQ’s Digital Research Program
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s https://www.ahrq.hhs.gov, (AHRQ) Digital Healthcare Research (DHR) Program funds and supports 103 research grants and 8 contracts totaling $144.5 million. (more…)
NIH’s $1M Prize Competition
NIH is offering up to $1 million in cash prizes for innovative diagnostic technologies to help improve maternal health worldwide. The NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge (NTAC) for Maternal Health to reward the prototypes for low-cost, point of care molecular, cellular, and/or metabolic sensing and diagnostic technologies. (more…)
CDC’s Networks to Combat AT
CDC https://www.cdc.gov has awarded $22 million to nearly 30 organizations worldwide to combat Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) and other healthcare threats by establishing two new networks.