The Greater Baltimore Regional Integrated Crisis System (GBRICS) serves children and adults experiencing a behavioral health crisis. The project will invest $45 million over five years to transform behavioral health response crisis services in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Carroll County, and Howard County in Maryland. (more…)
DHS & FEMA Developing App
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology has awarded a contract to further develop a program planning app to deal with emergency situations. (more…)
Accolade to Acquire 2nd.MD
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com sees the 2nd.MD deal providing Accolade (ACCD) https://accolade.com, a faster growing asset with ample cross-sell opportunities. (more…)
Tracking Neurological Conditions
NIH https://www.ninds.nih.gov launched a new database to collect information from clinicians on COVID-19 related neurological symptoms, complications, and outcomes as well as learn how the virus affects pre-exiting neurological conditions. (more…)
Grant to Develop Telehealth Robots
Researchers at UC San Diego https://ucsd.edu, UCLA, UC Irvine, and San Diego State University received a grant award for $1.2 Million from the UC MRPI Grant Program to develop an advanced class of mobile telemanipulation robots. (more…)
Medicare Dashboard Launched
Millions of at-risk individuals. particularly older adults and those that are chronically ill, rely upon essential healthcare services and/or electricity-dependent durable medical and assistive equipment and devices. (more…)
BAMC’s Remote Monitoring Program
One of the first patients to be enrolled in the new COVID-19 Remote Monitoring Program at the Brook Army Medical Center (BAMC) https://bamc.tricare.mil located in San Diego, was Kathlyn Chassey, former lung transplant recipient. (more…)