National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis S. Collins has penned a guest forum in the July issue of Scientific American magazine. In it, he describes the promise of mobile health apps, noting that mobile device have the potential to become powerful medical tools, and calling attention to some of the myriad interdisciplinary research opportunities in this space: As a volunteer in a trial of mobile health technology, I can attest that it’s incredibly cool to pick up your iPhone, fire up an application to monitor your heart rate and rhythm, and then beam your ECG reading to a cardiologist halfway around the globe. As a physician-scientist, I also know that cool […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for June 24th, 2012
