Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D. today announced the selection of five entrepreneurial projects for investment by the Secretary’s Ventures Fund (HHS Ventures). The projects were chosen from across HHS and are part of the latest round of funding and support designed to advance the Department’s innovation agenda... HHS Ventures is a highly competitive effort that provides growth-stage funding and support to HHS employees with proven ideas for how to dramatically improve their office, agency, or the Department’s ability to carry out its mission...National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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The Future of AHRQ’s Health Services Research
Michael Berkwits | The Journal of the American Medical Association | August 19, 2015
Both houses of Congress will have to resolve their differences to pass a 2016 federal budget bill, which then goes to President Obama for his signature or veto. In the meantime, AHRQ Director Richard Kronick, PhD, sat down with JAMA to talk about the agency’s work and its relationship with other federal health research entities. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation...
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The Future Of Open Access: Why Has Academia Not Embraced The Internet Revolution?
Kalev Leetaru | Forbes | April 29, 2016
More than any other technology, the web has revolutionized access to the world’s information, putting everything from recipes to encyclopedias to books to news at the fingertips of anyone with an internet connection anywhere on the planet. The web’s role in democratizing access to global information has made it a poster child for the power of technology to advance society. Read More »
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The National Science Foundation Bets Big On Open Source Platforms
By Joshua Pearce | March 6, 2022
The National Science Foundation (NSF) wants to grow the community of researchers who develop and contribute to open source and enable pathways for collaboration that lead to new technologies that have broad impacts on society...[NSF] just announced US $21 million to fund open source development through a new program: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (PEOSE).
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The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute Announces Largest-ever Open Source Stem Cell Repository
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The New York Stem Cell Foundation |
October 22, 2014
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute, through the launch of its repository in 2015, will provide for the first time the largest-ever number of stem cell lines available to the scientific research community. Read More »
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The Ontario Institute For Cancer Research Joins The Open Cloud Consortium
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Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Open Cloud Consortium |
August 20, 2014
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) announced today that they have entered into a multi-year agreement that brings OICR into the OCC. OICR will be involved with several OCC Working Groups, including the Open Science Data Cloud Working Group and the Biomedical Commons Cloud Working Group, to build systems for cancer genomics analysis and biomedical data sharing...
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The President’s Precision Medicine Initiative – The First Annual Check-Up
Antoinette F. Konski | JD Supra Business Advisor | January 27, 2016
Watching President Obama’s recent 2016 State of the Union Address reminded me that one year has passed since the President announced a new “precision” or personalized medicine initiative to advance personalized, effective therapies for the American public. It was during his 2015 State of the Union Address that the President stated:[1]
“[T]onight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes, and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier. We can do this.”...
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The Price of Wearable Craze: Personal Health Data Hacks
Maggie Overfelt | CNBC.com | December 12, 2015
...in a year when the world's largest technology, medical device and health-care firms are betting big and fast on wearable technology's role in delivering patients a more precise and cost-effective way to manage their health, experts are worried that the pace of updating data-privacy laws and building infrastructures with optimal levels of security doesn't match the speed of the market's technological rollout. The risks to consumers depend on what type of device they're wielding. In rare instances, weak links or endpoints in a cloud-based network powering something like a wearable insulin pump could be life threatening, as it opens the door to hackers tampering with them...
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The Secretary’s Ventures Fund Announces 2017 Projects
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
May 17, 2017
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D. today announced the selection of five entrepreneurial projects for investment by the Secretary’s Ventures Fund (HHS Ventures). The projects were chosen from across HHS and are part of the latest round of funding and support designed to advance the Department’s innovation agenda... HHS Ventures is a highly competitive effort that provides growth-stage funding and support to HHS employees with proven ideas for how to dramatically improve their office, agency, or the Department’s ability to carry out its mission...- Login to post comments
The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains
James Hamblin | The Atlantic | March 18, 2014
Leading scientists recently identified a dozen chemicals as being responsible for widespread behavioral and cognitive problems. But the scope of the chemical dangers in our environment is likely even greater. Why children and the poor are most susceptible to neurotoxic exposure that may be costing the U.S. billions of dollars and immeasurable peace of mind.
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The Tragedy Of Electronic Medical Records
J.K. Wall | IBJ.com | October 23, 2014
...Digitizing medical records was supposed to transform health care—improving the quality of care and the service provided to patients while helping cut out unnecessary costs...But lately, electronic medical record systems are getting nothing but votes of no-confidence from physicians, hospitals, insurers and IT experts...
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The Wearable Device That Could Text You When Your Loved One Has A Seizure
Matt McFarland | Washington Post | January 31, 2014
Barbara Kroner has watched her daughter suffer from over 15,000 seizures. She has long slept in the same bed as Ellie, who has Aicardi syndrome, so that she’s there to help if the 14-year-old suffers a seizure. Read More »
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This mock pandemic killed 150 million people. Next time it might not be a drill
Lena H. Sun | Washington Post | May 30, 2018
A novel virus, moderately contagious and moderately lethal, has surfaced and is spreading rapidly around the globe. Outbreaks first appear in Frankfurt, Germany, and Caracas, Venezuela. The virus is transmitted person-to-person, primarily by coughing. There are no effective antivirals or vaccines...So began a recent day-long exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The simulation mixed details of past disasters with fictional elements to force government officials and experts to make the kinds of key decisions they could face in a real pandemic. It was a tense day. The exercise was inspired in part by the troubled response to the Ebola epidemic of 2014, and everyone involved was acutely aware of the very real and ongoing Ebola outbreak spreading in Congo.
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Top 10 eClinical Trends
By Olivier Roth | April 1, 2014
The drug development industry is facing a revolution in the way clinical trials are being planned and conducted. It’s an industry that experiences rapid changes in technology adoption and business models, from new ways of capturing clinical data to new outsourcing strategies. This paper focuses on ten essential eClinical trends in order to help you understand which direction the biotech industry is prone to take in the next few years. As both the means, and the ultimate motivation of clinical development, patients are the most fundamental assets during the clinical trial process. We have summed up five trends that are destined to give them a more important role in the conduct of clinical studies: Boosting Patient Engagement, Integrated ePRO (electronic Patient Reported Outcomes) Systems, Mobile Clinical Studies, Personalized medicine, and Risk-based monitoring. Read More »
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Top 10 Medical Research Trends To Watch In 2013
Margaret Anderson | Huffington Post | January 11, 2013
Congress has pushed the date of the "sequester" off another two months, delaying the prospect of automatic 8.2 percent cuts in the budgets of NIH, FDA, and other federal science programs. But a sequester (or other cuts) could still happen. [...] Read More »
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Transparency Life Sciences Launches Indication Finder™ Crowdsourcing Tool For Drug Repurposing
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Transparency Life Sciences (TLS) |
October 24, 2012
Transparency Life Sciences (TLS), the world's first drug development company based on open innovation, today announced the launch of Indication Finder™, a survey-based crowdsourcing tool designed to identify promising new indications for existing drug candidates. Read More »
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