Digital Health, Menopause, And The $150 Billion Ignorance
The idea of this story came from personal experience. During the past year, I have spent countless hours and a bucketload of money trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my health. I was feeling worse and worse, having various symptoms, totally inexplicable with my impeccable test results. During this journey, not a single doctor asked or suggested that my symptoms may come from entering perimenopause – the stage of life of women preceding menopause.
I am 47 years old, and as I have learned since then, extremely average in starting to have perimenopause symptoms at the age of 47. Also very average ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Lifestyle medicine female health menopause tech Source Type: blogs
How Is the Post-Award Process Managed?
This post is part of a series outlining NIGMS research priorities, funding opportunities, and the grant application process. You can read more posts in this series and sign up to receive all future posts delivered straight to your inbox.
Our previous posts in this series described NIGMS research priorities; major research project grants that we support; and overviews of our Institute’s research training, workforce development, and research capacity building programs. In this post, we discuss the notice of award (NOA), project reporting requirements, flexibilities in award management, and matters that require additiona...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 21, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Research Administration Resources NIGMS Grant Basics Post-Award Monitoring and Reporting Source Type: blogs
Developing Low-Cost Lab Techniques: Q & A With Abraham Badu-Tawiah
Credit: Ohio State University.
“I never thought I could make an impact on chemistry and students’ lives. But now, I’m the head of a lab with several Ph.D. and undergraduate students and a postdoctoral researcher; and we’re developing simple, low-cost lab techniques that can be adopted by labs across the world,” says Abraham Badu-Tawiah, Ph.D., the Robert K. Fox Professor of Chemistry at Ohio State University in Columbus. We talked with Dr. Badu-Tawiah about his career progression, research, and advice for students hoping to launch a career in science.
Q: How did you get started on the path to a career in sci...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 21, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Tools and Techniques Profiles Source Type: blogs
Astrocyte Reactivity in the Development of Alzheimer's Disease
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) consistently shows up in proteomic analyses of age-related neurodegenerative processes, particularly now that more research groups are engaged in building early warning biomarker profiles for the later development of Alzheimer's disease. Such studies are usually focused on Alzheimer's disease because that is where most neuroscience funding is directed, but the presence of GFAP as a marker is more generally applicable to the aging of the brain and its supporting cell populations.
Astrocyte cells exhibit increased expression of GFAP when they become reactive, it is a well-known m...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 20, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) Presubmission Webinar
We’re pleased to announce a presubmission webinar for the NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program (PAR-23-137). The next application due date is June 7, 2024.
SEPA supports educational activities for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 to ensure that students and teachers from all communities and regions of the country have the opportunity to pursue studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). SEPA also supports informal STEM education activities outside the classroom.
STEM educators interested in applying for SEPA funding are strongly encouraged to attend the webinar to learn ...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 20, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Meetings/Events Preparing an Application SEPA Webinars Source Type: blogs
Austin-Based Vital Interaction Closes $15M Series A Funding Round to Revamp Patient Communication with Hyper-Personalization
Vital Interaction, a healthcare technology company that combines healthcare data, business intelligence, and workflow automation, today announced the closing of $15 million in Series A funding led by Austin-based Next Coast Ventures. Vital Interaction uses key practice and patient data to ensure patients follow through on prescribed care plans, recalling and reactivating both new and existing patients to encourage follow-up appointments and reduce patient churn. It uses appointment, clinical, and billing data to generate automated, customizable campaigns for targeted patient outreach.
By analyzing millions of these patient...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ben Chapman Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Michael Smerklo Next Coast Ventures Vital Interaction Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – February 17, 2024
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Updating the Tired Old Patient Questionnaire. Andy Oram dove into the approach Health Note is taking to questionnaires, which includes combing EHR data to create specific questions relevant to each patient and customizing for different types of care providers, including schools and community clinics. Read more…
Automatically Generated Medical Notes...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Cohere Health Raises $50 Million in Equity to Meet Increased Demand for AI-Driven Transformation of Prior Authorization Process
New Funding Propels Cohere’s Expansion of Intelligent Prior Authorization Platform to Drive Better Payer-Provider Collaboration, Following CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule
Cohere Health, a recognized leader in clinical intelligence and prior authorization automation, announced it has closed $50 million in additional equity funding. The funding was led by Deerfield Management, with participation from Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, and brings the total raised by Cohere to $106 million. The latest round of funding will fuel the company’s expa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cohere Cohere Health Deerfield Management Define Ventures Flare Capital Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Longitude Capital Michael Greeley Polaris Partners Siva Na Source Type: blogs
World ’s Largest Radiology AI Marketplace CARPL Raises $6M to Accelerate the Adoption of AI in Clinical Workflows
Stellaris Venture Partners Leads $6 Million Investment into CARPL, the World’s First Enterprise-Grade Testing, Deployment, and Monitoring Platform for Radiology AI Applications; CARPL is Used by the World’s Leading Healthcare Providers to Improve the Productivity of their Radiologists and the Quality of Care Delivered to their Patients
As people live longer and as emphasis on early detection of disease increases, there is a mounting burden on the healthcare services industry globally. This is being especially felt in radiology teams who are witnessing an acute shortage of radiologists. Currently, there are over 200 com...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Akshant Goyal Alisha Moopen Alok Goyal Arjun Kalyanpur Aster DM Healthcare Bain & Co Boston Consulting Group CARPL Deepinder Goyal Dhruv Sahai Dr. Amit Kakar Dr. Felix Olale Dr. Garry Choy Dr. Source Type: blogs
Health2047 Portfolio Company HEAL Security Launches from Stealth with $4.6 Million Raised
The Platform Offers Comprehensive, Tailored Threat Intelligence and Risk Assessment, Empowering Hospitals and Health Systems to Protect Patient Data with Precision
Health2047, a Silicon Valley-based venture studio founded by the American Medical Association (AMA), today announced its investment in and launch from stealth of portfolio company HEAL Security, a cognitive cybersecurity intelligence platform custom-designed for the healthcare sector. To date, Health2047 has invested $2.3 million in HEAL Security, with additional co-investor funding bringing its total pre-seed investment to $4.6 million.
In the first quarter ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AMA American Medical Association Charles Aunger Evidium HEAL Security Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Health2047 HOPPR Lawrence K. Cohen Medcurio Phenomix Sciences Sch Source Type: blogs
Supporting innovations in cancer treatment and prevention for our nation ’s most vulnerable
By KAT MCDAVITT and LESLIE KIRK
Innsena has made a $100,000 contribution to CancerX, making Innsena the public-private partnership’s first Impact Supporter.
Why? There are few conditions in which the disparity in innovations benefiting underserved communities is more apparent than in the treatment and prevention of cancer.
Patients without insurance are more likely to present with more advanced cancers, and the cancer death rate for people of color is significantly higher than for white patients. More people die from cancer in rural communities than in urban settings.
In CancerX, we found a community of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy CancerX DiME health equity Jennifer Goldsack Kat McDavitt Leslie Kirk Medicaid Moffitt Cancer Center Oncology Ventures Source Type: blogs
Patient Advocates Argue Exercising Bayh-Dole " March-In " Rights Reasonable to Ensure Ongoing Supply of an Insulin Novo Nordisk Intends to Discontinue
Back in 2016 (when President Obama was still in office), the trade group known as the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (better known by the acronym PhRMA) claimed in an organization-published white paper (seehttps://web.archive.org/web/20161022175500/https://phrma.org/sites/default/files/pdf/bayh-dole-act-white-paper-summary.pdf for an archived copy of that paper from PhRMA; note that it has since been removed from PhRMA ' s website, hence I found a copy on the Internet Archive) that championed the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. Understand that what PhRMA really wants to prevent a particular provision...
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 11, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: march-in rights 2024 Alliance to Protect Insulin Choice APIC Bayh-Dole insulin detemir Levemir Novo Nordisk Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – February 10, 2024
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Automating For Workflow and Quality in Healthcare. John Lynn interviewed Jason Warrelmann at UiPath about helping organizations look for automation opportunities where lots of data exist, particularly in quality control, compliance, and imaging. After awhile, Jason said, organizations may find 300 to 400 use cases for workflow improvement or automation. ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
The Optimism of Digital Health
By JONATHON FEIT
Journalists like being salty. Like many venture investors, we who are no longer “green” have finely tuned BS meters that like to rip off the sheen of a press release to reach the truthiness underneath. We ask, is this thing real? If I write about XYZ, will I be embarrassed next year to learn that it was the next Theranos?
Yet journalists must also be optimistic—a delicate balance: not so jaded that one becomes boooring, not so optimistic that one gets giddy at each flash of potential; and still enamored of the belief that every so often, something great will remake the present paradigm.
T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI DHIS West Jonathon Feit Michelle Snyder venture capital Source Type: blogs
Advocating for Epigenetic Reprogramming as a Potential Rejuvenation Therapy
Partial epigenetic reprogramming emerges from the intersection of understanding how cells behave in cancerous tissue and during embryonic development. In the developing embryo there is a point at which adult germline cells convert themselves into embryonic stem cells, discarding forms of damage and dysfunction characteristic of adult cells and restoring a youthful pattern of the epigenetic markers attached to the genome that control its shape in the cell nucleus and thus gene expression. Some of the genes involved are known to also operate in cancers, in which replication and reprogramming runs wild, but which use many of ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 6, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
