The Lowell Community Health Center https://lchealth.org,is using technology to help multilingual patients access COVID-19 vaccines. On any given day, up to 60 different languages can be heard at the Health Center located in Lowell Massachusetts. (more…)
Ideas to Advance Breakthroughs
The Presidents proposed FY 2022 budget requests $6.5 billion to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to be housed within NIH. The goal is to develop breakthroughs to prevent, detect, and treat diseases like Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and cancer. (more…)
Connected Health: Impact of AI
Parks’ Associates 2021 Connected Health Summit https://parksassociates.com, highlighted the session Personalization in Connected Health: Impact of AI. (more…)
Amazon Care in the News
As Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com notes, Amazon Care in the news is not a surprise. Business Insider is reporting that Amazon Care has approached Aetna/CVS and several regional insurers like Premera Blue Cross, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts etc., to join their networks as a covered benefit. (more…)
HHS IT Plan Discusses 5 goals
According to Perryn B. Ashmore, HHS Chief Information Officer, the HHS IT Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2021-2023 represents the Department’s ambitions to deliver core technology functions with greater agility, security, and effectiveness now and in the future. (more…)
Biorepository Now Available Globally
The Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital (The Neuro) https://mcgill.ca/neuro, is launching the Clinical Biospecimen Imaging and Genetic (C-BIG) Repository one of the world’s largest highly curated biorepositories of neurological disorders in the world, as an open access resource for the global scientific community. (more…)
Sensor System to Detect Outbreaks
A Rockefeller Foundation’s https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org, grant will enable collaborating with the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center in San Diego. (more…)