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Creating the Perfect Project Pitch
The PHDA has hosted dozens of Pitch Days in which prospective teams boil down complex …
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Project Spotlight: Aviva
Aviva is a voice-interactive virtual assistant that listens to ICU team rounding discussions, identifies gaps …
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Regulating Digital Health Technologies – Continued
In our last post, we provided an overview of how the FDA regulates digital health …
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Regulating Digital Health Technologies
The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) supports commercial translation research projects that leverage clinical data …
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PHDA and Amazon Web Services Collaboration Yields Results to Improve Patient Care Through Machine Learning
Last August, PHDA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new collaboration to advance innovation …
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The Startup Ecosystem
Don Taylor, PhD, MBA, CLP is the co-director of the Center for Commercial Applications of …
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Project Spotlight: Placenta Pathology
A collaborative team from CMU, Pitt, and UPMC is developing image analysis software to examine …
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Meet the Team: Rachel Cawley
Rachel Cawley is a Program Manager at UPMC Enterprises where she helps evaluate PHDA proposals, …
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Project Spotlight: Realtime Evaluation for Adverse Events using Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (READE-IONM)
Stroke during surgery is a devastating complication resulting in post-operative disability, or even death, and …
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Project Spotlight: Integrating Deep Learning with High Throughput Materials Engineering for Detecting Noroviruses
The Norovirus Sensor team, led by Carnegie Mellon’s B. Reeja Jayan and Amir Barati Farimani, …
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How Technologists and Clinicians Can Work Together on Identifying a Problem and Creating a Solution
Joe Marks, PhD, is the Executive Director of CMU’s Center for Machine Learning and Health …
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Pittsburgh Resources that Support Innovation and Commercialization
The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) represents an unprecedented collaboration …
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