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Kinto Wins the Mass. Digital Health COVID-19 Recovery Challenge
December 9, 2021Source: Massachusetts eHealth Institute
BOSTON, MASS. – Kinto was named the winner of the Massachusetts Digital Health COVID-19 Recovery Challenge on Wednesday. Cambridge-based Kinto, a virtual platform that offers caregiver coaching, a personalized e-learning curriculum, and peer support groups, will benefit from a $100,000 grant to advance its product with MITRE, a member of the Massachusetts Digital Health Sandbox Network.
Learn MoreAARP Launches AgeTech Collaborative
November 15, 2021Source: AARP, Cision PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, On November 15, 2021, AARP launched the AgeTech Collaborative™, "a new platform to help AgeTech innovators generate big new ideas and send thriving products into what's now an $8.3 trillion economy driven by those who are age 50 and older."
Learn MoreMaking Health and Motion Sensing Devices More Personal
September 22, 2021Source: Rachel Gordon, MIT CSAIL
Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Center for Artificial Intelligence (CPAI) created a toolkit for designing health- and motion-sensing devices using something called “electrical impedance tomography (EIT),” a fancy word for an imaging technique that measures and visualizes a person’s internal conductivity. (EIT is typically used for things like observing lung function or detecting cancer.)
Learn MoreMeHI, Lever Announce Finalists for the first Massachusetts Digital Health COVID-19 Recovery Challenge
September 17, 2021Source: MeHI at the MassTech Collaborative
WESTBOROUGH, MA — The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) and Lever are pleased to announce the eight finalists for the first Massachusetts Digital Health COVID-19 Recovery Challenge, a new program meant to identify and grow digital health tools that will help drive economic recovery from the pandemic.
Learn MoreMassachusetts eHealth Institute Awards ‘Right Care 4 You’ Grants to Reduce Healthcare Costs
February 2, 2021Source: Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the MassTech Collaborative
WESTBOROUGH – The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative recently announced awards for the new Right Care 4 You grant program totaling $189,360 for two digital health companies to support pilot projects with Massachusetts employers to help reduce their healthcare costs.
Learn MoreMassachusetts Digital Health Sandbox Program Awards $105,500 to Boost Three Massachusetts Startups
January 19, 2021Source: Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI)
WESTBOROUGH – The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) has awarded new grants from the Digital Health Sandbox program to support three Massachusetts startups to test and validate their products and services at three different sandbox environments across Massachusetts. These three awards, totaling $105,500, will allow Lexington-based Keva Health, Cambridge’s Dynocardia, and Boston’s caresyntax to access the cutting-edge tools and staff at three innovative Sandbox R&D centers located in Massachusetts.
Learn MoreMassachusetts General Hospital Lab Joins Statewide Digital Health Sandbox Network
December 21, 2020Source: Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) at MassTech
WESTBOROUGH – The Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) at MassTech has added the Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability & Cybersecurity Program (MD PnP) at Massachusetts General Hospital as the next sandbox in its growing Digital Health Sandbox Network. The program boosts digital health across the Commonwealth by connecting companies to a network of innovative test beds that bolster their research and development lifecycle.
Learn MoreNuEyes Launches Pilot Study in Collaboration with Mass. Commission for the Blind & MeHI
July 28, 2020Source: Press Release
Newport Beach, CA – July 28th, 2020 –NuEyes, a leader in augmented reality (AR) smart glass solutions that empower those that suffer from severe vision loss, today announces a new pilot study in collaboration with the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB) and Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI). The pilot is being conducted as part of the 2020 MassChallenge HealthTech program, an effort to boost startups at the intersection of healthcare and technology supported by the Massachusetts Digital Health Initiative.
Learn MoreBaker-Polito Administration and WPI Cut Ribbon on New Healthcare Technology R&D Facility in Worcester
January 14, 2020Source: Press Release
WORCESTER - Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and Worcester Polytechnic Institute President Laurie Leshin joined leaders from across Central Massachusetts and the healthcare technology community to officially open the new PracticePoint facility at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
Learn MoreMeHI and partners launch the Massachusetts Caregiver Coalition during National Caregivers Month
December 5, 2019Source: Massachusetts eHealth Institute
MeHI, in collaboration with leaders from business, health care, education and state government, recently launched the Massachusetts Caregiver Coalition, an initiative to assess and address the needs of unpaid family caregivers across the Commonwealth. Together, we are building a Coalition designed to help improve caregiver quality of life and encourage innovation and technology to support these family caregivers.
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