The Arizona Center for Rural Health https://crh.arizona.edu received $8.1 million from CDC to address COVID-19 disparities. The plan is to improve the delivery of vaccinations, testing, and information, plus build on relationships with health providers in rural and underserved communities.in Arizona. …Continue reading
Advancing Global Health
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil https://www.healthaffairs.org, welcomed Loyce Pace, Director, HHS Office of Global Affairs https://hhs.gov/about/agencies/index.html, to the Health Affairs new Policy Spotlight Event to discuss rebuilding relationships and advancing the U.S. international health agenda. …Continue reading
NIH awards $12.5 M Grant
NIH https://www.nih.gov awarded a $12.5 million grant to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) to develop and enhance brain sensing and brain stimulation platform technologies to help treat drug resistant epilepsy. …Continue reading
VPC Train is Gaining Speed
Credit Suisse http://www.credit-suisse.com caught up with Teledoc (TDOC) to discuss the company’s new partnership with Ambetter/Centene for Virtual Primary Care (VPC) in addition to implications from UnitedHealthcare’s recently announced virtually primary care product powered by Optum. …Continue reading
Mt. Sinai’s New AI Department
The School of Medicine at Mount Sinai https://www.mountsinai.org has launched a new department dedicated to advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform healthcare. The Department of AI and Human Health is now the first department of its kind within a medical school in the U.S. …Continue reading
NIH awards Geisinger Funding
The High Impact Phenotype Identification System (HIPIS) will allow physicians to diagnose and treat genetic conditions in real time. NIH”s National Human Genome Research Institute https://genome.gov, has awarded Geisinger’s https://www.geisinger.org, researchers $5 million. …Continue reading
CDC Awards Wayne State $15M
CDC https://www.cdc.gov, awarded $15.88 million to Wayne State University’s https://research.wayne.edu, School of Medicine, so the Department of Emergency Medicine can do a national study on viral infections presenting in Emergency Departments (ED) in the U.S. …Continue reading