GAO’s study titled Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning (ML) Technologies for Medical Diagnostics looks at how artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a tool for solving complex problems in the area of medical diagnostics. …Continue reading
NIH Awards $100M for Autism Centers
NIH http://www.nih.gov is awarding $100 million over the next five years to support nine Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE). The funds will help researchers working on large projects understand and develop interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). …Continue reading
CDC Awards $12 M to ICF
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services https://cdc.gov/csels/index.html awarded ICF https://www.icf.com a new $12 million task order. …Continue reading
Mt. Sinai to Study TBIs
NIH https://www.nih.gov has awarded $8.3 million to enable researchers at the Brain Injury Research Center at Mount Sinai https://www.mountsinai.org to investigate the clinical and biological features that distinguish chronic and static effects of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from those associated with progressive post traumatic neurodegeneration. …Continue reading
DPH Establishing Genomics Center
CDC https://www.cdc.gov has selected the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) https://www.mass.gov as one of five national recipients to establish a Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence. The goal is to improve innovation and technical capacity to improve, prevent, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. …Continue reading
Developing Treatments for Heart Failure
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) https://fnih.org , and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) https://.nhlbi.nih.gov are launching a new partnership to investigate the syndrome of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF). …Continue reading
New MITIEverse App Launched
Houston Methodist https://www.houstonmethodist.org has launched the new MITIEverse App which is devoted to help health care education, training, and innovation. …Continue reading