The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Digital Healthcare Research Program https://digital.ahrq.gov invests in applied digital healthcare research to help clinicians understand what to do to make patient care safer. …Continue reading
NIH Awards UCSD $33 Million
NIH awarded UC San Diego $33 million over four years for five Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) projects https://www.nih.gov/radx. …Continue reading
Using Zoom for Telehealth Visits
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com as part of their Healthcare Disruptive Technologies & Innovations series, recently hosted Linda Branagan PhD, Director of Telehealth Programs, at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) https://healthinformatics.ucsf.edu/telehealth for a virtual meeting with a small group of investors. …Continue reading
COVID-19 Research Awards
AHRQ https://www.ahrq.gov has approved 28 research grants designed to explore questions on the delivery of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grants have been awarded to fund new projects and funds to enable existing projects to be refocused on COVID topics. …Continue reading
Addressing Care During COVID
As part of AFCEA Bethesda’s Health IT March Forward Series, a panel of leaders from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) presented the panel “What’s Next After DHA’s Transformation”. …Continue reading
Company Creates Advisory Board
Vibrant Health https://www.vibrenthealth.com, a health technology company powering the future of precision health research, has created a participant advisory board made up of health experts who will advise Vibrant’s Participant Technology Systems Center (PTSC). …Continue reading
Studying Future Viral Threats
The Abbott https://www.abbott.com Pandemic Defense Coalition is the first global scientific and public health partnership dedicated to the early detection and rapid response to future pandemic threats. …Continue reading