University of California Los Angeles news from FierceMobileHealthcare
NewsNIH, its foundation put their money where their mouths are
As we briefly touched on last week, the National Institutes of Health plans on awarding 150 grants for mobile health IT projects this year. Healthcare IT News fills in some more details from last Read more...
Lens-free smartphone microscope built from $1.50 chip
As UCLA researchers test a low-cost, lens-free microscope, a team of scientists at nearby California Institute of Technology have developed a similar device from a $1.50 digital camera sensor that Read more...
Med schools, Cedars-Sinai test wireless monitoring to reduce readmissions
Five University of California medical schools plus Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will study how wireless technologies and telephone care management can reduce the number of hospital Read more...
Telehealth in developing countries may require change in Western med schools
About 80 percent of the population of Nepal live outside Kathmandu, but 90 percent of the country's doctors are in the capital city. Electricity is spotty, the government is somewhat unstable and Read more...
Engineer turns cell phone into low-cost microscope for quick field testing
Need to run a blood or tissue test pronto, but don't have ready access to a lab? Well, as the commercial goes, there's an app for that. An engineering professor at UCLA's California NanoSystems Read more...
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