April 18, 2024
Technology/Innovation
Epic Games awards UCF professor grant to enhance AR & VR tech
The company responsible for the online video game hit Fortnite has awarded a UCF assistant professor a grant to develop an immersive technology to take virtual experiences to new levels of reality.
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Published on 5/11/2020
Sunsetting VistA
The VA was the first in the nation to integrate electronic medical records with its homegrown software. Now the agency is junking it and migrating to Cerner.
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Published on 4/7/2020
Orlando Health's Epic EHR Overhaul
Orlando Health's EHR switch aims to create a complete patient story in one place.
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Published on 4/7/2020
Sore point: Allegations of fraud in the Electronic Health Records market
Since 2017, three EHR vendors have paid more than $357 million combined to settle government claims related to fraud, kickbacks and other alleged abuses.
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Published on 4/7/2020
University of West Florida wins $400K National Eye Institute grant
Biology professor Scott Taylor has won a grant to study how zebrafish regenerate preceptor cells in their eyes after they've been damaged.
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Published on 3/25/2020
Teen develops “Germ Genie” to protect travelers from diseases
Henry Hurowitz couldn't have timed his new product and company better.
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Published on 3/25/2020
AdventHealth Nicholson Center opens Prototype Lab to help physician inventors
Each year, doctors from around the world come to AdventHealth Nicholson Center in Celebration to practice surgical techniques using robots and other high-tech devices.
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Published on 3/25/2020
Naples' NCH Healthcare System buys germ-killing robot
In the battle against superbugs, Southwest Florida's NCH Healthcare System has a new high-tech weapon.
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Published on 3/25/2020
UF developed tiny chip tracks med-taking
Digital tech company etectRX has received FDA clearance for its ID-CAP system, which verifies medicinal dosage to patients and physicians using digital technology.
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Published on 2/26/2020
Tampa General Hospital's new organ donation equipment
Tampa General Hospital has started using new equipment that enables donor hearts, lungs and livers to be transported at body temperature rather than chilled and transported in coolers.
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Published on 2/26/2020
Camera-Guided Dogs
UWF researchers are developing tech to aid handlers' communication with military and law enforcement dogs.
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Published on 1/27/2020
Lung transplant technology collaboration between Mayo Clinic Florida and United Therapeutics
Mayo Clinic Florida expects to have three ex-vivo lung perfusion systems installed and operating by the end of first quarter 2020
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Published on 1/27/2020
Imec working on blood analysis device for future astronauts
Belgium-based nanotechnology research firm Imec is working on a disposable blood testing device that may one day help monitor astronauts' health in space.
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Published on 1/27/2020
Online platform Genius Plaza helps Florida students teach each other
Entrepreneur Ana Roca Castro founded online platform Genius Plaza...
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Published on 1/27/2020
Moffitt Cancer Center doctor asks Ringling students to use VR to aid patients
Dr. Sarah Hoffe, who heads Moffitt Cancer Center's gastrointestinal radiation oncology section, is well schooled in treating cancer...
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Published on 1/27/2020
The software success of Modernizing Medicine
Modernizing Medicine is on its way to $200 million in revenue from just $29,000 10 years ago.
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Published on 1/27/2020
Advancements in cancer research
A cancer researcher at UCF's College of Medicine was recently awarded $100K from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation
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Published on 12/26/2019
Largest cancer centers in Florida
See the top ranked largest cancer centers in the state, their location and the total number of cancer cases.
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Published on 12/26/2019
Nanotechnology for disease diagnosis and treatment earns Florida Poly professor international award
Florida Polytechnic University professor Dr. Ajeet Kaushik is determined to make detecting and treating diseases easy, accessible, and precise through the use of nanomaterials for biosensing and medicine.
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Published on 11/15/2019
WeatherSTEM technology alerts of lightning strikes
Tallahassee-based entrepreneur Ed Mansouri has developed technology
that provides up-to-the-second alerts of lightning strikes.
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Published on 10/25/2019
UNF has partnered with Fullstack Academy to launch coding program
Among the job openings in Jacksonville today are 950 that require the
ability to write computer code...
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Published on 10/25/2019
Florida Aquarium reproduces coral in a lab
Scientists at Tampa's Florida Aquarium, after more than two years of
research, have successfully induced the spawning of pillar coral in a lab.
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Published on 10/25/2019
Ridgeback Biotherapeutics treatment to cure Ebola
An experimental treatment produced by Miami-based Ridgeback
Biotherapeutics is helping turn Ebola into a treatable disease.
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Published on 10/25/2019
University of Miami College of Engineering researchers develop new, non-corrosive saltwater concrete
By using seawater and aggregates that contain salt ... UM College of Engineering researchers have developed a new type of concrete.
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Published on 10/25/2019
