Underserved populations get help with access to care via phone
Marci Bennafield, clinical instructor at Georgia State University ' s health informatics program, explains that, with 97% of American adults now owning a cell phone, there are more ways to intervene in health issues and lower disparities. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Analyzing pottery sherds from the ancient Mayan port site Vista Alegre
Georgia State University anthropologist Jeffrey Glover and doctoral student Carrie Tucker analyze pottery sherds from the ancient Mayan port site Vista Alegre at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Merida, Yucatan.
An international team of researchers, supported in part by the ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 26, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: video
New perspectives on maternity care: The Georgia Moms Project
Heidi Altman, associate professor at Georgia Southern University, describes how the initiative puts the focus on health disparities, access to care and the lack of rural providers. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - August 5, 2022 Category: Information Technology Tags: Population and Public Health, Healthcare Reform, Care, Public Policy Source Type: video
Can a Controversial Tree Help End the Opioid Crisis?
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Integrative Medicine Research Lecture SeriesKratom (botanical nameMitragyna speciosa Korth) is a tree in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) indigenous to Southeast Asia. Its leaves are the source of a Thai traditional drug, kratom, that possesses unique pharmacologic actions — e.g., stimulant actions like those of the coca plant plus depressant ones like those of opium. Traditionally, in its countries of origin, kratom extract has been used as an opium substitute; in Thailand, it has been used as a treatment for addiction.Recently, human case reports have increa...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
James H. Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine: Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South - September 2022
In 1969, after a protracted legal battle, Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama ordered that segregation of that state ’ s psychiatric hospitals was illegal and unconstitutional. In his judgement, Johnson drew on government inspections and grass roots legal activism to critique the terrible conditions that prevailed for Black patients. In this lecture Dr. Smith will give a preview of her forthcoming book Jim Crow in the Asylum in which she will demonstrate that racial segregation in psychiatric hospitals in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi was supported by underlying racist ideologies and has had long term consequences for p...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
HIT X.0: StealthVest at HIMSS12 (Clip)
Todd H. Stokes, of Georgia Tech and Emory University, shows how 3D printing technology can allow for custom-fit wearable devices for continuous monitoring of biosignals. This clip is from Stokes ' presentation at HIMSS12 in Las Vegas. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Denise Hines on HIMSS Radio at HIMSS16
Denise Hines, executive director of the Georgia Health Information Network announces some exciting professional news on HIMSS Radio and highlights the Women in Health IT initiative. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Core Technologies, EHR, Regulation, Public Policy Source Type: video
National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering - January 2021
National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering meeting to include reports from the Director, Institute staff and a scientific presentation by Dr. Manu O. Platt from Georgia Tech University.For more information go tohttps://www.nibib.nih.gov/about-nibib/advisory-councilAir date: 1/19/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
meeting to include reports from the Director, Institute staff and a scientific presentation by Dr. Manu O. Platt from Georgia Tech University.For more information go tohttps://www.nibib.nih.gov/about-nibib/advisory-councilAir date: 1/19/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Peering Beyond the Blindspot Seeking Authentic Risk Factors: a Case Study
Dr. Eve Higginbotham is the inaugural Vice Dean for Inclusion and Diversity of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a position she assumed on August 1, 2013. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the immediate past president of the AOA Medical Honor Society and currently serves on the National Academy of Medicine Council and the National Research Council Board. Dr. Higginbotham serves as a member of the Finance Committee of the National Academy of Medicine. Notable prior leadershi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Under Armour sells off MyFitnessPal for $345M; HHS rolls out five-year health IT plan
This week ' s top stories include Under Armour throwing all its weight behind MapMyFitness, HHS unveiling its 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, and CMS approving a Georgia waiver for a non-ACA marketplace. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 6, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Government & amp; Policy Telehealth Source Type: video
He ’ s cute and slow. He ’ s SlothBot!
He’s cute and slow. He’s SlothBot! NSF-funded researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are testing out this slow-moving, energy-efficient robot in the battle to save some of the world’s most endangered species.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - October 16, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Music video for " Into Your Mind, " the first single from the upcoming album " Shimon Sings "
This is a music video of the first single from the upcoming album "Shimon Sings." The new album will have eight to 10 songs Shimon wrote with his creator, NSF-funded Georgia Tech Professor Gil Weinberg. Weinberg's team trained the robot on 50,000 sets of lyrics from jazz to progressive rock to ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - May 11, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Researchers demonstrate frequency doubling
Georgia Tech researchers Kyu-Tae Lee and Mohammad Taghinejad demonstrate frequency doubling on a slab of titanium dioxide using a red laser to create nonlinear effects with tiny triangles of gold. The blue beam shows the frequency-doubled light and the green beam controls the hot-electron ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - April 27, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Red laser creates nonlinear effects with tiny triangles of gold
A red laser creates nonlinear effects with tiny triangles of gold. The blue beam shows the frequency-doubled light and the green beam controls the hot-electron migration.
[Research performed in part at Georgia Tech's Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, a member of the National ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - April 27, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
