Healthcare IT

Hawaii Biotech Inc. has been selected to develop a vaccine against chikungunya virus under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant from the National Institutes of Health‘s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The biotechnology company said Tuesday it will collaborate with the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Baylor College of Medicine on the project. David Clements, director of […] More

The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

AlloSource, a nonprofit cellular and tissue network, has partnered with NASA and the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to conduct microbial research in an effort to help improve medical care for astronauts who fly into space. A team of AlloSource, NASA and JPL scientists aims to determine the effects of zero gravity on antibiotic resistant genes in microorganisms taken […] More

Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer at IBM‘s global business services unit, said an emerging ledger technology from Bitcoin software developer Blockchain can potentially help update healthcare information technology systems across the economy and in government. Salzman wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the Blockchain technology uses cryptography to manage what network participants can view to fortify […] More

The Sequoia Project has certified the use of CGI‘s CONNECT Gateway open source platform on the eHealth Exchange network for health information sharing. CGI said Monday the gateway works to support the dissemination of health information to more than 2,000 organizations such as federal agencies and health-related organizations. The company added it partnered with the U.S. Federal Health Architecture to deliver program management, […] More

Lovell Government Services and Bodimetrics have partnered to offer the latter’s portfolio of telehealth devices to the Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal agencies via the Federal Supply Schedule contracting vehicle. LGS will distribute Bodimetrics’ products through its FSS contract with the Veterans Health Administration or the General Services Administration‘s Advantage Online Catalog, Bodimetrics said Tuesday. “Our focus has been in furthering the development […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. has started to offer care coordination and population health as-a-service platforms to U.K. government agencies through the online G-Cloud marketplace. CSC said Monday its care coordination offering consists of business process services intended to help providers address referral management, complex care coordination, discharge management and patient access challenges. The services are supported by a delivery platform that includes a directory […] More

NeuroCog Trials has received a $2 million grant from the the National Institute of Mental Health to gather additional normative data and internationalize a functional capacity assessment tool. NeuroCog Trials said Thursday the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool was developed to serve as a platform to present a realistic and immersive environment to recreate routine activities of […] More

Esri‘s geographic information system software is working to support the Department of Health and Human Services in efforts to track the spread of Zika virus and disseminate public information on the disease. The company said Wednesday HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has used the GIS software to create a public interactive map that shows the number of […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a biopharmaceutical production system meant to create treatments in the battlefield, Biopharma Reporter reported Tuesday. Melissa Fassbender writes the system comprises a biologics expression system that produces therapeutic proteins and a microfluidic platform. Tyler McQuade, program manager for DARPA’s battlefield medicine program, […] More