via Deb Bryant
Funding Opportunity
Sponsor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation –
Grand Challenges Explorations, Round 6
Amount: Up to $100,000
Deadline: Applications accepted from August 19, 2010 until
November 2, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will accept grant proposals from August 19 to November 2010 for Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage bold and innovative research on new global health solutions.
The topics for this round of the Grand Challenges in Global Health are:
* Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
* Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication;
* Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Health Conditions;
* Create New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns.
Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million.
The Grand Challenges Explorations initiative uses an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short two-page applications and no preliminary data required. Applications are submitted online, and winning grants are chosen approximately four months from the submission deadline.
The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Following are some tips provided by the Gates Foundation for grant seekers wishing to submit proposals:
* Proposals must represent an innovative approach responsive to the topic. There are other avenues of funding for the equally important research that is within currently accepted paradigms. Such work will not be funded under Grand Challenges Explorations.
* Proposals will be reviewed by a panel with broad expertise and a track record in identifying innovations – these reviewers may not be deep domain experts in your field. Ideas should be described in clear language without the use of jargon unique to a particular field.
* Proof-of-concept for ideas need not be completed in Phase I. However, credible evidence supporting the validity of an idea, sufficient proof to warrant expanded support, and next steps for the project should be provided.
* Grant seekers must select only one of the topics under which to submit and may submit only one proposal. Submit your best idea. You may submit multiple ideas in partnership with collaborators, but an individual PI may lead the submission of only one proposal each round. You must select a topic prior to submitting a proposal. View the detailed topic descriptions and determine which topic best suits your idea. You may change your topic and edit your proposal any time before the application deadline.
A full description of the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative is available at:
http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/introduction.aspx.
Application instructions can be found at:
http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/ApplicationInstructions.aspx
If you have questions or need assistance, contact Martha Coleman, Director of Foundation Relations at OSU Foundation by phone at 541-737-6961 or via email at Martha.coleman@oregonstate.edu.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation challenge
I received this opportunity via Deb Bryant
Funding Opportunity
Sponsor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation –
Grand Challenges Explorations, Round 6
Amount: Up to $100,000
Deadline: Applications accepted from August 19, 2010 until
November 2, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will accept grant proposals from August 19 to November 2010 for Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage bold and innovative research on new global health solutions.
The topics for this round of the Grand Challenges in Global Health are:
* Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
* Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication;
* Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Health Conditions;
* Create New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns.
Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million.
The Grand Challenges Explorations initiative uses an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short two-page applications and no preliminary data required. Applications are submitted online, and winning grants are chosen approximately four months from the submission deadline.
The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Following are some tips provided by the Gates Foundation for grant seekers wishing to submit proposals:
* Proposals must represent an innovative approach responsive to the topic. There are other avenues of funding for the equally important research that is within currently accepted paradigms. Such work will not be funded under Grand Challenges Explorations.
* Proposals will be reviewed by a panel with broad expertise and a track record in identifying innovations – these reviewers may not be deep domain experts in your field. Ideas should be described in clear language without the use of jargon unique to a particular field.
* Proof-of-concept for ideas need not be completed in Phase I. However, credible evidence supporting the validity of an idea, sufficient proof to warrant expanded support, and next steps for the project should be provided.
* Grant seekers must select only one of the topics under which to submit and may submit only one proposal. Submit your best idea. You may submit multiple ideas in partnership with collaborators, but an individual PI may lead the submission of only one proposal each round. You must select a topic prior to submitting a proposal. View the detailed topic descriptions and determine which topic best suits your idea. You may change your topic and edit your proposal any time before the application deadline.
A full description of the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative is available at:
http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/introduction.aspx.
Application instructions can be found at:
http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/ApplicationInstructions.aspx
If you have questions or need assistance, contact Martha Coleman, Director of Foundation Relations at OSU Foundation by phone at 541-737-6961 or via email at Martha.coleman@oregonstate.edu.
Funding Opportunity
Sponsor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation –
Grand Challenges Explorations, Round 6
Amount: Up to $100,000
Deadline: Applications accepted from August 19, 2010 until
November 2, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will accept grant proposals from August 19 to November 2010 for Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage bold and innovative research on new global health solutions.
The topics for this round of the Grand Challenges in Global Health are:
* Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
* Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication;
* Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Health Conditions;
* Create New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns.
Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million.
The Grand Challenges Explorations initiative uses an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short two-page applications and no preliminary data required. Applications are submitted online, and winning grants are chosen approximately four months from the submission deadline.
The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Following are some tips provided by the Gates Foundation for grant seekers wishing to submit proposals:
* Proposals must represent an innovative approach responsive to the topic. There are other avenues of funding for the equally important research that is within currently accepted paradigms. Such work will not be funded under Grand Challenges Explorations.
* Proposals will be reviewed by a panel with broad expertise and a track record in identifying innovations – these reviewers may not be deep domain experts in your field. Ideas should be described in clear language without the use of jargon unique to a particular field.
* Proof-of-concept for ideas need not be completed in Phase I. However, credible evidence supporting the validity of an idea, sufficient proof to warrant expanded support, and next steps for the project should be provided.
* Grant seekers must select only one of the topics under which to submit and may submit only one proposal. Submit your best idea. You may submit multiple ideas in partnership with collaborators, but an individual PI may lead the submission of only one proposal each round. You must select a topic prior to submitting a proposal. View the detailed topic descriptions and determine which topic best suits your idea. You may change your topic and edit your proposal any time before the application deadline.
A full description of the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative is available at:
http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/introduction.aspx.
Application instructions can be found at:
http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/ApplicationInstructions.aspx
If you have questions or need assistance, contact Martha Coleman, Director of Foundation Relations at OSU Foundation by phone at 541-737-6961 or via email at Martha.coleman@oregonstate.edu.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Android or iPhone Smartphone; It's your business, your life, you decide.
Android or iPhone Smartphone; It's your business, your life, you decide.
I wrote an article for KevinMD.com several months ago discussing the benefits of Android for the Healthcare market. I also compared Android with the iPhone. I listed the iPhone's technical short comings and really angered the “believer of all things Apple”. That was not my intent. Apple's latest release of iPhone 4.0 and their new Operating System (OS) 4.0 corrects many of the problems that I mentioned. The short comings or benefits of a devices is not the focus of this article. I am going to speak to the general philosophies of the two OS's and let you make up your mind on what OS is better for your health care facility or personal/business use.
Apple iPhone as you know is built on the premise of two primary factors. Ease of use and a one vendor solution. My definition of ease of use; The reduction of complexity to reduce cognitive involvement. Similar to the evening news which is written and delivered to be comprehended by a person with an eighth grade education. I am not suggesting that the iPhone is for people with less intelligence, it is just marketing. Steve Jobs knows that if Apple hits the ease-of-use sweet spot they will grab the majority part of the market. The one vendor solution also reduces some of the problems of compatibility, e.g., Apps for the iPhone are available only through the Apple iTunes website. The only issue with this solution is that you are locked into on place to purchase music.
Android to the contrary has built an Open Source Operating System to runs on many phones from many manufacturers. That is, Android in not a phone, it is an OS. Manufacturers may license the OS for any phone that they choose. The can also change or add to the OS as needed. Android's premise is to allow developers to build apps to the specifications and needs of the enduser/customer, not to the needs and desires of the manufacturer of the phone or Google, the company that originally developed the Android OS. The developer may also choose where their apps are marketed and sold. There are numerous stores online where you can purchase Android apps, including Google Market apps store.
Now for the pros and cons of both; First, both Operating Systems of Apple and Android are based on UNIX; an OS that was built at ATT/Bell Labs in 1969. The primary difference is the interfaces for both developer and user (owner of phone). Apple has marketed the iPhone extremely well and it is a great phone for many users. Study have shown that most iPhone users do not purchase apps, many do not even use free apps. The iPhone user is locked into accruing software, hardware and even music from a single vendor and store, the Apple owned iTunes. CIO/CMIOs know that understands the risk and potential disaster this can present for a mission critical environment like healthcare. The latest antenna problem with the iPhone's new 4.0 is a good example of what I am referring to. With the Apple solution you have the choice of one phone, a single manufacturer's hardware failure would leave an organization with few options. With the Android solution you are not locked into on single manufacture, you have may devices and carrier option to choose from. There are many Android phones on the market today to choose from, at the end of 2009 there were 18 devices to choose from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices. Apple's “one size fits all” solution does provide some benefits. There are not as many issues with compatibility of devices or OS, although the iPhone 4.0 OS does not run on the some older iPhones. Android apps can have problems with apps not running on all released OS versions from different manufactures. If the developer is not knowledgeable of these issues or fails to test their apps on all OS versions, yes there are issues. These incompatibility problems are isolated to specific phones, you are still not limited to one phone. So, an enterprise solution would not be affected. Android user interface does take a few extra minutes to learn, not that it is difficult, it just has more options (buttons) for more features. I have heard rumors that Android is planning to offer an OS feature that provides a similar interface as the iPhone. The only other major consideration when choosing smartphones and mobile device solutions is that you must be concerned about the Carrier selection, or should I say lack of. The iPhone is only available on AT&T at this time. Redundancy and a single point of failure is an issue for mission critical systems. Android is available on multiple carriers such as Verizon, Sprint and T-mobile.
The iPhone and Android smartphones are basically both very good devices. The user or the institutional IT leader must examine the pros and cons for their business or personal use. For the normal everyday enduser, either phone is good choice. My prediction is that in a few years we will look back and laugh about these issues. The incompatibility issues of the Operation Systems is a detriment to end users. The future of application and OS compatibility will become less of an obstacle as the Cloud and wireless broadband market matures.
Jeff Brandt
www.comsi.com
Monday, July 12, 2010
Patient Centric Health Records, A Case for the Clinical Setting
This paper was written for my Medical Informatics class at OHSU
Personally Controlled Health Records which are also know as Patient-Centric Health Record (PCHRs), a subset of Personal Health Records (PHRs), enable a patient to assemble, maintain and manage a secure copy of his or her medical data. PCHRs provide Patient-Centric online tools that are managed by the patient and are viewed as the enabler of Patient Centric Healthcare. This paper will discuss the advantages of utilizing the Patient Centric Health Record to facilitate Patient-Centric care in the clinical setting. There have been many articles written about the lack of ROI (Return On Investment) associated with PCHRs. This article provides information on achieving ROI by practicing Patient-Centric care that incorporates the Patient-Centric Health Record.
Case in point of a demonstrable use of a PHR is the Veterans Administration PHR utilized to assist veterans in management of their healthcare. MyHealtheVet.com has the largest participation of a PHR to date with 976K registered users. Of the registered users, over 10% have entered their own data to their record at the time of the publishing of this paper.
With the changes in the law-governing healthcare (e.g., ARRA, HITOC) and the definition of Meaningful Use there is more emphasis on the use and benefits of Patient-Centric healthcare. The delivery of healthcare is also quickly changing to meet new requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) rulings. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is not directly stating PHCR/PHR are part of the requirements to date, but it is clear that there is a desire for Patient-Centric HIT as part of the overall plan. PCHR/PHR are the tools that provide solutions to achieve the ONC’s goals and fulfill their requirements.
Transparent commercial and Open Source Patient-Centric architectures, which are based on open standards have been developed and deployed to encourage widespread participation by patients, families, healthcare providers, caregivers and institutions, thus creating the ecosystem for development of innovative, consumer-focused and provider friendly healthcare applications. This paper shall illustrate that a PCHR/PHR has a value proposition for the clinical setting.
http://motionphr.com/pch_setting.pdf
Personally Controlled Health Records which are also know as Patient-Centric Health Record (PCHRs), a subset of Personal Health Records (PHRs), enable a patient to assemble, maintain and manage a secure copy of his or her medical data. PCHRs provide Patient-Centric online tools that are managed by the patient and are viewed as the enabler of Patient Centric Healthcare. This paper will discuss the advantages of utilizing the Patient Centric Health Record to facilitate Patient-Centric care in the clinical setting. There have been many articles written about the lack of ROI (Return On Investment) associated with PCHRs. This article provides information on achieving ROI by practicing Patient-Centric care that incorporates the Patient-Centric Health Record.
Case in point of a demonstrable use of a PHR is the Veterans Administration PHR utilized to assist veterans in management of their healthcare. MyHealtheVet.com has the largest participation of a PHR to date with 976K registered users. Of the registered users, over 10% have entered their own data to their record at the time of the publishing of this paper.
With the changes in the law-governing healthcare (e.g., ARRA, HITOC) and the definition of Meaningful Use there is more emphasis on the use and benefits of Patient-Centric healthcare. The delivery of healthcare is also quickly changing to meet new requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) rulings. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is not directly stating PHCR/PHR are part of the requirements to date, but it is clear that there is a desire for Patient-Centric HIT as part of the overall plan. PCHR/PHR are the tools that provide solutions to achieve the ONC’s goals and fulfill their requirements.
Transparent commercial and Open Source Patient-Centric architectures, which are based on open standards have been developed and deployed to encourage widespread participation by patients, families, healthcare providers, caregivers and institutions, thus creating the ecosystem for development of innovative, consumer-focused and provider friendly healthcare applications. This paper shall illustrate that a PCHR/PHR has a value proposition for the clinical setting.
http://motionphr.com/pch_setting.pdf
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