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AT&T’s Connected Health Foundry (a CHOT member) works with companies like Aira to innovate. Check out this great article in Forbes.

A.I. 'Glasses' Turn Airports, Other Chaotic Places For The Blind Into Liberating Experiences Navigating through airports can be daunting: the wide-open unfamiliar spaces, the free-flowing and chaotic pedestrian traffic, the numerous shops and restaurants. But a startup called Aira has introduced a technology-powered assistance service based on Google Glass.

Highmark Health CEO, David Holmberg, discusses access to care in Pennsylvania.

David Holmberg, president and CEO of Highmark Health, was interviewed by Modern Healthcare and discussed the future of health care in Pennsylvania, the end of the consent decree in 2019, and how Highmark Health’s new model of health care aims to reduce health care costs. http://bit.ly/2qse0JA

CHOT Welcomes Geisinger! Dr. Brandon K. Fornwalt (Associate Professor & Director) and Dr. Christopher Haggerty (Assistant Professor) from the Department of Imaging Science & Innovation, presented “Leveraging Large EHR, Imaging and Genomic Datasets to Generate New Knowledge in Cardiology.” They also visited with CHOT scholars to learn more about their research projects and possible collaborations.

Sunghoon Lim, Chongnan Lee, and Vishnupriya Bakthisaran have developed a Real Time Social Media Map that visualizes population-health-related information using real-time tweets. Find out more about this and other projects:

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CHOT's November/December newsletter is here and features a visit from Geisinger. Email [email protected] if your organization would like to learn more about collaborations with CHOT.

CHOT November/December Newsletter

The Quantitative Walking demo by Yi D**g integrates sensors into comfortable and attractive clothing for human gait monitoring. The prototype utilizes fabric circuit technology and inertia measurement unit (IMU) sensors to build up a wearable sensing system. Find out more about this and other projects:

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Austin Hedden demonstrates virtual reality medical training that can provide a unique learning
environment for medical professionals. Find out more about this and other projects:

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Congratulations on the "Shark Tank" investment!

Congratulations Olivier! Penn State College of Medicine MD/PhD student gets ‘Shark Tank’ investment. DNAsimple http://bit.ly/2iY5ICc

Come out tomorrow afternoon to hear Ph.D. candidate and PSU CHOT scholar Sunghoon Lim as our IE Colloquium speaker!

The Pennie Rocks iOS application’s goal is to be a fun, easy to use tele-health program for patients and end-users. James Frazier and Raj Desai demo the application at the 2017 CHOT Symposium.

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More Pennsylvanians die from opioid overdoses than fatal vehicle accidents. Dr. Lauren Hughes presented on the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s response to this crisis at the CHOT FALL 2017 Symposium. Learn more here:

Home ​The prescription opioid and he**in overdose epidemic is the worst public health crisis in Pennsylvania. It affects Pennsylvanians across the state, from big cities to rural communities. The Department of Health is committed to being part of the solution by working with Governor Wolf to provide the...