COVID dashboard tracks county virus spread
Washoe County, Nev., turned to Esri ArcGIS to create a dashboard that would monitor the virus’ progression through the area.
V-Safe: How everyday people help the CDC track COVID vaccine safety with their phones
The v-safe registry lets inoculated people report their experiences, including serious suspected side effects, directly to the CDC through smartphones, adding to the data gathered from clinical trials and other safety monitoring systems.
Creating innovative, streamlined and accessible digital experiences
A low-code development platform can dramatically streamline innovation and accelerate development of 508-compliant apps and websites.
Price tag on NY’s vaccination app keeps rising
New York’s Excelsior Pass vaccine authentication app may cost much more than first expected.
CDC launches public-health analytics center
The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics aims to advance the use of forecasting and outbreak analytics in public health decision-making.
SaaS: The future of health insurance enrollment
State-based health care exchanges built on software-as-a-service platforms help lower operating costs and increase policy flexibility and autonomy to drive health insurance enrollment.
NYC’s early warning system for infectious diseases
A network of smart thermometers will allow public health officials to analyze data on individual neighborhoods so they can craft policies to control outbreaks of flu or COVID-19.
With billions available for public health, it’s time to rebuild
Funding infusions from the American Rescue Plan creates a tremendous opportunity to fix one of public health’s biggest problems -- a technology infrastructure featuring aging legacy systems, enormous data silos, lack of interoperability and many other challenges.
Pooling society’s collective intelligence helped fight COVID – it must help fight future crises too
The COVID pandemic has brought home the importance of gathering and analyzing society’s collective intelligence and finding new ways to share that combined knowledge as quickly as possible.
Tracking state vaccine passport initiatives
MIT’s Pandemic Technology Project is tracking each state’s stance on vaccine passports, noting whether the technology is in active use, under consideration or banned -- and linking to relevant legislation and sources.
DHS, NYC test biodefense detection tech in subway
The Chemical and Bio-Defense Testbed evaluates cost-effective technologies that can help officials detect and mitigate chemical and biological threats inside an actual subway environment.
Health leaders propose ARPA-H
The government health and science community is looking toward establishing a research arm, with the same flexible and nimble approach to innovation and experimentation as the Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Washington’s COVID exposure notification app averted cases, saved lives
Washington state’s Bluetooth-powered WA Notify app likely prevented about 6,000 cases and may have saved over 100 lives.
Security framework for protected data allows researchers to tap Oak Ridge supercomputers
CITADEL opens up new opportunities for big data researchers who previously could not access Summit, the nation’s most powerful scientific supercomputer, because of privacy rules.
NLM Pillbox put out to pasture
The National Library of Medicine retired its Pillbox program earlier this year after about a decade of providing a quick way for the public, medical workers and law enforcement to identify a pill.
DARPA-funded fabric protects against chemical, biologic threats
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing new fabrics and protective equipment that can reduce the risk of chemical and biological threats to service members and responders.
Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic secrets
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us program aims to collect genetic information, medical records and health habits from surveys and wearables of more than a million people in the U.S. over the course of 10 years.
The emergency 911 system where callers still don’t always get proper CPR instructions
It’s taken two years and $1.2 million to get Rhode Island’s 911 system ready to provide CPR and other medical instructions to callers. The system should be working in June. Rhode Island is the last state in New England to provide this service.
AI analysis speeds FDA drug reviews
An artificial intelligence-based platform helping the Food and Drug Administration analyze adverse drug reports is expected to save reviewers about 7,500 hours per year.
Data, AI to power medical support on the battlefield
The Army wants to give warfighters access to an artificial intelligence-enhanced medical database they can use to care for fellow service members incapacitated by injury or disease in the field.
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