he maximum grant is $500,000 and the minimum grant is $50,000...... The purpose of the DLT program is to acquire user equipment that
functions via telecommunications systems for the purposes of connecting students and teachers or medical professionals and patients at separate sites in rural America ... These sites can include rural hospitals, medical clinics, medical centers, and experts providing clinical interactive video
consultations...... The program funds
equipment that operates over telecommunications systems, but does not fund the telecommunications links themselves... To be eligible for a grant your organization must:•
Deliver or propose to deliver distance learning or telemedicine services for the term of the grant. The DLT program is focused on sustainability. Planning studies, research projects, and short-term demonstration projects in place less than the life of the award for three years will not be considered• Be an incorporated
organization or partnership, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, a state or local unit of government, a consortium or a private corporation organized for profit or on a not-for-profit basis• Operate a
rural community facility or deliver distance learning or telemedicine
services to residents in rural areasApplications must be
submitted by or on May 18, 2010. For more information, email dltinfo@wdc.usda.gov or call
(202) 720-0413. To download the Application Guide including the toolkit
go to www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/dlt/dlt.htm.ENJOY!CC…
re expensive lab equipment. The microscope, which uses no lenses, saves on cost and weight by using algorithms to get more information from images...... The device can generate blood counts and
identify disease cells and bacteria from simple images sent through a USB cord to a cell phone that uses software to processes the data. The latest version of the microscope integrates an interference-based contrast method to provide better images in addition to diagnostic information...
... The device made by researchers led by Aydogan Ozcan, professor of electrical and biomedical engineering at UCLA. It has only two key hardware components: a light-emitting diode to illuminate the sample and an light-sensing chip. These components each cost about 30 to 40 cents...... Slides smeared with samples are loaded into the microscope through a small drawer that
sits between the LED and the light sensor. A USB port carries power and data between the scope and a cell phone. The tiny microscope measures about six centimeters high and four centimeters on each side; it weighs just 46 grams...Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25286/?nlid=2973ENJOY!CC…
cine and Advanced Technology Research Center) symposium on "Mobile Health: The Use of Cell Phones for Healthcare Applications.”...... I have sent links to those who have asked. But, after sending the link to another member today, I thought it might be useful to share this information with the entire global MedTech-IQ membership representing over 30 countries. "mHealth" is a deservedly hot topic. This symposium included some of the top minds in the field ... ... See below Speakers, with links to their Abstracts and Full Presentations ...ENJOY!CCP.S.: Speakers with * next to their name are MedTech-IQ members ... Abstracts & Presentations
David Aylward, J.D. Executive Director, mHealth Alliance
United Nations Foundation
"Partnerships for mHealth" Abstract | Presentation
Ms. Cynthia Barrigan, R.N., M.P.H. Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Portfolio Manager, International Health Programs,
U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC)
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, (TATRC)
"Text4Baby – A Mobile Information Service for Expecting and New Mothers" Abstract | Presentation
Gaetano Borriello, Ph.D. Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
"Open Data Kit Project – Mobile Data Tools for Community Health Workers" Abstract | Presentation
Daniel Fletcher, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Bioengineering Department & Biophysics Program,
University of California, Berkeley
"CellScope – Mobile Microscopy for Disease Diagnosis" Abstract | Presentation
Stephanie Fonda, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist, Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s (WRAMC) Diabetes Institute
"A Cell Phone Intervention for Improving Adherence to a Diabetes Therapy" Abstract | Presentation
COL Karl E. Friedl, Ph.D., Director, U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC)
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, (TATRC)
" Promoting Advanced Medical Technology Development for Military and Civilian Use"
Presentation
Major General James K. Gilman, M.D. Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
"The Role of Medical Technology Across the Spectrum of Military Operations Presentation
Mr. Alan Greenberg Independent Consultant, Education ITS Tribal Group PLC
"Mobile Learning – Lessons Learned from Universities and Colleges in the U.K. " Abstract
| Presentation
Mr. Joseph Hagin Non-Executive Chairman, S Mobile Systems Inc.
Founding Principal,
Command Consulting Group
" Mobile Security: Implications for the Future of mHealth" Presentation
*M. Sriram Iyengar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas
Health Sciences Center at Houston
"Guideview – A Phone-Based Decision Support Application as a Clinical Support Tool"
Abstract | Presentation
Paul Meyer, J.D. Co-Founder, President & Chairman, Voxiva, Inc.
"Interactive Mobile Health Around the World" Abstract | Presentation
Joan Neyra, M.D. Director of Electronic Surveillance Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Emerging Infections, U.S. Naval Medical Research Center
Detachment (NMRCD)
"ALERTA – Remote Electronic Disease Surveillance in Peru" Abstract | Presentation
Ms. Holly Pavliscsak, M.H.S.A. mCare Project Manager, U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC)
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, (TATRC)
"mCare: Development, Deployment and Evaluation of a Mobile Telephony-based Patient Secure Messaging System " Abstract
| Presentation
COL Ronald K. Poropatich, M.D. Deputy Director, U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC)
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, (TATRC)
"TATRC’s Strategy for the Research and Development of Mobile Health Applications" Presentation
William Cameron Powell, M.D. President & Chief Medical Officer, AirStrip Technologies
"Remote Patient Monitoring via Mobility" Presentation
*Ms. Jeanette Rasche, M.S. Technical Team Lead, mCare Project,
U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC)
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, (TATRC)
"mCare: Development, Deployment and Evaluation of a Mobile Telephony-based Patient Secure Messaging System " Abstract
| Presentation
*William Kennedy Smith, M.D. President & Chief Executive Officer, MEDRED, LLC
President,
Center for International Rehabilitation (CIR)
"Using Mobile Technologies to Implement Clinical Guidelines at the Point of Care" Abstract
| Presentation
*LCDR Steve Steffensen, M.D. Chief, AITG, U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC)
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, (TATRC)
"Welcome, Introductions & Objectives of the Day"
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tions Now Open!
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 1, 2010 - 11:59 PM EST
The 2010 mHealth Summit will bring together leaders enabling cutting-edge research,
evidenced based practice and innovative policy solutions to advance the benefits mobile technology can bring to the health and wellbeing of developed and developing world populations. We are seeking abstracts for Presentations from the Public and Private Sectors that highlight ground-breaking health research, information and communication technologies, systems architecture and global partnerships that leverage mobile technology to improve global health outcomes. Additionally, we are seeking Research Technology Demonstrations.
Relevant technologies include: Mobile Phones, Smart Phones, Mobile Phone Apps, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), Mobile Electronic Sensors (e.g., Accelerometers), Portable
Physiological Sensors (e.g., Ambulatory Glucose Monitors), Mobile Environmental Sensors,
Integrated Mobile Devices, and other Wireless Technologies.
Topic Areas Include: • Remote Data Collection & Patient Monitoring (assess/track health in the real world) • Health Disparities & Underserved Populations (high-risk and difficult to reach groups) • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion (reducing risk factors for disease) • Medical Compliance & Adherence (following treatment regimen) • Environmental Exposure Assessment (studying environmental
causes of disease) • Childhood Obesity (energy intake and expenditure in
individuals <21 years) • Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (prenatal
and postpartum health) • Infectious Diseases (diseases attributed to
virus, bacteria, or other infections) • Patient Reported Outcomes (quality
of life and other patient-driven health indicators) • Point of Care
Diagnostics (diagnostic testing performed at or near patient care setting) • Educational Tools for Health Professional
Training • Software System Development and Information Technology
Infrastructure (Enterprise
Architecture) • Emergency or Urgent Care (medical care where threat of disability or death is imminent)
All submissions will be reviewed by the mHealth Summit Steering Committee. Oral
presentations will be grouped thematically in tracks, presented as moderated sessions, and are
expected to last 12 minutes with additional time for a Q&A session. Some presentations will
be integrated into planned Super Sessions.
For More Information or to Submit an Abstract, Please Visit: Call For Presentations
Register For The Summit Atwww.mHealthsummit.org
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the National Broadband Plan to Congress on March 17 2010 ...
... Note the prominence given Healthcare...... Clearly, the FCC perceives e-Care, what I call telemedicine, eHealth, mHealth and/or Health IT, as a compelling priority... the FCC urges federal authorities to: 1) expand
reimbursement for telemedicine and other e-health care;2) to conduct more pilot projects;3) to deliver a plan to Congress on how to advance telemedicine and health information technology; 4) to clarify regulatory requirements, licensing and credentialing; 5) to expand interoperability between clinical, research and administrative health care data; and 6) To ensure all providers have access to affordable broadband, and that rural e-health care be subsidized for both ongoing costs and network deployment...... on the non-medical front, the FCC lists among its priorities expanding distance
learning, smart energy, government transparency and online accessibility, job creation and using broadband for public safety... ...
The commission has been developing the national broadband strategy since April 2009. Simultaneously, other elements of the federal government, i.e., the USDA-RUS Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the DOC-NTIA Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), have begun distributing nearly $7 billion in economic stimulus funds for broadband projects in rural and underserved areas...ENJOY!CC…
in Dubai, the 8-10th of November 2010 ...ENJOY!CCFor mobile health, what’s old is new again
Back in the 1990s, Kenneth Seymens was the senior manager of Apple’s Medical Informatics Group. Seymens directed an initiative at Apple that developed native Macintosh clients for health IT systems. His team partnered with 120 medical schools to develop the medical apps for Macs, but they soon migrated their efforts over to Apple’s first handheld device, the ill-fated Newton, a personal digital assistant that held great promise for point of care applications...
... “Of course, Apple eventually stepped back from the Newton,” Seymens told MobiHealthNews in an interview. “Honestly, it was premature at that time. What we were doing was very disruptive for physician workflow. Compare that to today: Smartphone adoption among healthcare practitioners, including Apple’s iPhone, is extremely strong.”...
... "Really, this [mobile health space] hasn’t fundamentally changed all that much,” Seymens said. “Sure, the technology is better and faster. Yes, wireless is going to move it all forward, especially in the developing world because many of those markets don’t have existing infrastructure. No one is laying cable in the desert, for example.” ...
... Seymens is a believer in the concept of deploying mobile health solutions in developing markets and once their efficacy is proven, bringing them back to the US....
... Seymens left Apple in the late 1990’s to found a startup along with a few Apple Newton engineers. The startup was called JustUs Communications, which focused on creating medical apps for the Apple Newton among other devices. Again, Seymens said, JustUs was ahead of its time and it eventually ran out of gas… and its Angel funding...
... “Again, trying to change practice patterns for physicians is no small task,” Seymens said.
Soon after Seymen joined the American Hospital Association as its first Chief Information Officer and stayed on for a few years. After one too many challenges to his business acumen, Seymens said he went to Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business to get an MBA. Seymens then joined an investment bank and headed up the firm’s healthcare technology practice and worked on capital raises, consolidations and the like...
... Seymens then served as president and CEO of a medical device company that retrofitted personal health devices, including pulse oximeters, weight scales, blood glucose meters and more with wireless chips. The devices could then communicate with a local hub and transmit information to secure portals where healthcare providers could analyze it and make recommendations to the patient....
... Currently, Seymens is a Venture Partner at Vesalius Ventures...
... “I sit at that sweet spot between healthcare informatics, telecommunications and medical devices,” Seymens said. “I’m still looking very opportunistically at venture opportunities in mHealth or telehealth, but it’s a tough market for investors to get their arms around. There are not too many private equity or venture capital plays in this space. It’s very boutique-oriented with lots of one-sy, two-sy deployments. Too many proof of concept companies and no major wins yet.”...
... Seymens said that mobile health won’t really take off until the telcos of the world — the AT&Ts, Verizons and Vodafones really start implementing mobile health services. Mobile operators already have the infrastructure in place, the billing in place and a captive audience, Seymens said. The mobile operators can sit back and watch the mobile health pioneers and treat them as stalking horses. When they decide the market is ready, mobile operators can work with the managed care organizations to launch mobile health services developed on the backs of the early startups...Read on at: http://mobihealthnews.com/8572/for-mobile-health-whats-old-is-new-again/ENJOY!CC…
works, the underlying data systems, and the integration of these systems with existing commercial and health system infrastructure holds significant potential to improve health promotion and disease management. Patient management systems, improved supply chains, and remote treatment through telemedicine & mHealth are examples of applications of this growing infrastructure...
... ‘Cloud’ Computing and Mobile Devices. ... These innovations are already here ... the idea of a PC is becoming more and more distant as one can access immense centralized computing power and information anywhere and anytime. The productivity increases and the decentralization of the ability to mine data will create huge productivity gains everywhere, from the consumer sector to medicine ...
... Point-of-care diagnostic technologies ... A technique called isothermal nucleic acid amplification may dramatically simplify the processes and tools needed for diagnosing certain diseases in low-resource settings; and may eventually lead to instrument-free molecular infectious disease assays. By quickly and inexpensively identifying molecular markers of disease agents, this diagnostic innovation may enable highly specific treatments, displacing the “shotgun therapy” currently used in many cases. This approach will enable better patient care, as well as slow the emergence of antimicrobial resistance fueled by widespread use of broad-spectrum drugs...
... New vaccine technologies ... Nearly every licensed vaccine today uses decades-old technologies that require expensive factories to produce a single vaccine. New recombinant, platform-based technologies may greatly speed vaccine production, decrease manufacturing costs, and increase production in developing countries. Such platforms will allow multiple vaccines to be produced in a single facility using scalable technology that is readily transferrable. They will also facilitate development of vaccines for specific regions of the world, such as affordable vaccines for viral encephalitis in Asia and bacterial meningitis in Africa. Innovations in manufacturing and vaccine approaches will broaden opportunities for combination vaccines—offering protection against several diseases in a single shot...
... Vaccine thermostability technologies ... Spray drying, new liquid formulations, and alternative delivery techniques are helping to decrease the need for refrigeration of new vaccines. Given the number of new vaccines under development, these thermostability technologies have huge potential to decrease the burden on the cold chain infrastructure and facilitate delivery of lifesaving vaccines...
... Water, sanitation, and hygiene technologies ... Low-cost water purification and new “plug and play” components for safe water and sanitation may make safe water available to millions. Innovations in business models for delivery of safe water are opening new distribution channels...
... Genome Sequencing ... Who would have guessed that by the end of the decade, what took 10 years and several billion dollars to generate the first human genome sequence, could be done in a few days at roughly 10,000 times lower cost? This trend of increasing throughput and decreasing cost will continue with a number of new technologies on the horizon. Data processing and bioinformatics will become the bottleneck as the need grows to assemble and compare large numbers of genomes. Moore’s Law just can’t keep up...
... RNA Interference ... This is revolutionizing the ability to study the function of individual, and networks of genes, and raising the potential for a whole new class of therapeutics...
... P4 Medicine. A term associated with "Systems Biology" and coined by Leroy Hood to embody Personalized, Predictive, Preventive, and Participatory medicine ... This technology will come of age. Driven by new cost reductions in the ability to sequence human genomes, we will finally be able to understand who will get disease, detect the disease early, and administer medicines that will work, only to those who need it. Medicine will be more cost effective and more targeted and “Smart pills” will be better and cheaper than expensive hospitals....
... Synthetic Biology. ... the technical strides in sequencing and synthesis of genes into complex systems is nothing short of mind-boggling. The folks who will succeed here are not the providers of the biology, but those who understand and own the biology AND can integrate it into industries like fuel, and agriculture. Companies like Sapphire Energy are already developing technologies that will revolutionize fuels and agriculture as we know it. The United States will produce its own green crude oil at home and at huge scale by 2020...
... In-Vivo Cell Potentiation. ... Recent discoveries in stem cell biology and the new field of epigenetics have unlocked the ability to design drugs that can be delivered to the body and can cause cells in the body to change. Some call this “transdifferentiation,” but basically it is using drugs to trigger the body’s own ability to cure itself using our own cells ... Melanoma cells can be given signals to change into normal skin cells. Soon we will be able to tell the body to grow more new heart tissue, to grow new pancreas cells to cure diabetes, and even to fix our own bones faster ... The genes are just dormant, ready to be awakened by the right signal...
... Genome wide association studies (GWAS) ...this approach scans for markers across the genomes of many individuals to spot small variations that might be associated with a particular disease ... With the availability of many full human sequences, the identification of rarer, and perhaps more meaningful single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), is in the works...
... Single Molecule Measurements ... Such capability will lead to more sensitive measurements of biomarkers that have not even been detected yet. The relevance of these markers to disease and wellness will start to be uncovered ...
... Bioanalytical Science ... Developments will begin to have an impact on clinical diagnostics. There has been a revolution in imaging technology that can provide increasingly high-resolution pictures of the smallest components of the cell. These techniques are beginning to be applied to monitor living cells in real-time, albeit in laboratory environments, not inside the body. Look for these methods to advance and migrate into the clinic where label-free imaging will be conducted to identify lesions at the sub-cellular level...
... The Return of Nanotechnology. ... Look for major innovations in solar energy that can produce electricity at 6 cents per kilowatt hour and which will compete with conventional power without subsidy. These are in the field now and will blow away the current big names in solar thermal, concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) and thin film solar. New battery innovations on flexible substrates and new form factors that are 2-5 times more efficient than current lithium ion batteries will emerge from the laboratory.
... China. ... China will make strides in their own internal innovation. Some of the best and brightest are returning to China, and it is actually becoming much easier to start companies there ... While the United States total research funding will still dwarf the rest of the world and lead in interdisciplinary technology and fundamental innovation ... China will excel in applications development and deployment. The U.S. has invented 90% of the clean-tech innovations that matter, but has already lost the thin-film solar market to China and Europe because it has not funded it, scaled it and has not created a domestic market for it. China and the EU are leading in the solar industry even though it is mostly based on technology from the U.S...
To learn more, read on from the original author postings at:
Robert Nelsen is a co-founder and a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. He focuses on biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and nanotechnology.
http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2010/01/07/top-five-innovations-to-watch-in-the-coming-decade/
David R. Walt is the Robinson Professor of Chemistry at Tufts University, and a co-founder, director, and chairman of the scientific advisory board of San Diego-based Illumina.
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/01/08/five-disruptive-biotech-ideas-to-watch-in-the-coming-decade/
James Topper is a general partner with Frazier Healthcare Ventures.
http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/12/29/top-five-medical-innovations-of-the-2000s-and-one-big-concern/
Christopher Elias is president and CEO of PATH, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health.
http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/12/30/top-five-global-health-innovations-of-the-2000s/
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Health Symposium" in Boston, 21-22 October 2009.
The symposium is becoming an increasingly important annual milestone for the Health IT, Telemedicine, eHealth, mHealth, and of course, "Connected Health" communities.
For those unable able to attend this year, the Center for ConnectedHealth has made a wealth of news and presentations from the symposium available online at:
http://www.connected-health.org/events/symposium-2009.aspx.
Please see for yourself the provocative and insightful developments that have now become the standard for this "Thought Leader" Center of Excellence. Speakers this year included MedTech-IQ members Ben Sawyer (Serious Games & Health) and Jay Sanders (The Futurists). Presentations available online include:
Healthcare Reform, Payment Reform, and the Implications for Connected Health
- Stuart Altman, PhD, Professor of National Health Policy, The Heller Graduate School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
A Conversation on the Policies and Politics of Healthcare Reform
- Ed Markey, US Congressman (D-MA)
- Jim Mongan, MD, CEO, Partners HealthCare
Behavioral Health and Telehealth: Assessing the Market and Charting the Way Forward
Grading Care: Tracking the Strengths, Weaknesses and Future of Online Provider Ratings
The Futurists
The Emerging Use of Videogames for Health: Innovations, Impacts and Issues
Medicare Demonstrations: Where We Are, What We've Learned and Where We're Going Next
Mobile Health: Leapfrog Technology for the Developing World?
Analyzing Digital Health by the numbers: Five Years of Market Trends - and What They Mean for the Next Five
Connected Health at Scale: Changing Roles for Patients and Providers
The Innovator's Prescription: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change Health Care
Irrational Decisions and the Limits of Free Market Medicine
Drilling Down on Mad Markets, Gentle Nudges and Behavioral Economics: Real-Life Applications for Healthcare
Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities through Healthcare IT: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Coordinating Care: What's Really Involved and Who's Really Going to Do It?
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significant growth over the next several years...
... With the imminent passage of the Healthcare Reform bill and the previous passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment ("Stimulus) Act last February, 2010 is the year that is poised to trigger the en masse adoption of electronic health records by healthcare providers ...
... This is based not only on policy changes, but on technological advances that can now allow the monitoring of patient health, wirelessly, in real time, 24/7, and increasingly irregardless of geography...
... the attached Accenture report points out that consumer health electronics, predictive modeling and low-cost Internet connectivity have reached a stage that they can enable better decision making that, in turn, can transform chronic disease management which drives the bulk of healthcare costs ....
.. The challenge, and opportunity as noted by FierceMobileHealthcare, is that EHRs can not demonstrate their full potential until medical devices are seamlessly and automatically capable of populating patient records and triggering clinical decision support ...
... Thus paradoxically, as Dana Blankenhorn notes in his excellent blog ZDNet Healthcare, this sets up a scenario in which 2010 becomes a make or break year for health IT ...
... Dana believes that a key development to watch, will be the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator) Health Information Technology $235 million "Beacon Community" program. This is where a central effort will be committed to concretely change medical practice in a way that measurably saves money, in a manner that can be replicated, and then can be embedded in the rest of the system as a whole ...
... These are massive challenges and opportunities for the advanced medical technology community. We will have to be on top of our collective games in 2010. Franky, the compelling value proposition for health IT is still largely unproven. That proof needs to emerge in concrete, credible fashion in 2010 ... What we predict will be a pivotal year in the history of the transformation of American Healthcare...
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