Earlier this month, MCIRCC welcomed Colonel Todd E. Rasmussen, MD FACS to U-M to give a presentation on the challenges in combat casualty care. Colonel Rasmussen is the director of the US Combat Casualty Care Research Program, which seeks to drive medical innovation through development of knowledge and materiel solutions for the acute and early management of combat-related trauma. His presentation was the first in MCIRCC’s brand new Seminar Series...
Read MoreLas Vegas was the setting for HIMSS16, the largest health IT conference in the country, where 40,000+ healthcare professionals congregated and collaborated to solve the challenges faced in aggregating and interpreting the myriad of data collected in healthcare settings. The conference, attended by Catalyst Team members Mark Salamango, Ashwin Belle, Dan Stuart and Ray Aldrich, is especially relevant to MCIRCC as its data science and analytics team is a leader in healthcare data aggregation and analysis...
Read MoreThe Brain Injury Association of America leads the nation in observing Brain Injury Awareness Month by conducting an awareness campaign in March each year. The theme for the 2015 to 2017 campaign is: Not Alone...
Read MoreEmergency Critical Care Center team celebrates one-year anniversary by podcasting live with Dr. Scott Weingart, Chief of the Division of Critical Care and Director of the Resuscitation and Acute Critical Care Unit at Stony Brook Hospital in New York...
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Massey Foundation TBI Grand Challenge paves the way to saving lives and improving outcomes for those who suffer traumatic brain injuries...
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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario – February 9, 2016 – /CNW/ - Covalon Technologies Ltd. (the "Company" or "Covalon") (TSXV: COV), an advanced medical technologies company, has announced a licensing agreement with the University of Michigan’s Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (“MCIRCC”), whereby Covalon has licensed intellectual property from MCIRCC that, when commercialized, could prevent or reduce the occurrence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (“VAP”), a potentially devastating hospital acquired infection, and the most common nosocomial infection in critically ill patients...
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On February 5, Kevin Ward, MD spoke about some of the biggest challenges that healthcare providers face when caring for critically ill and injured patients, including the volume (up to 100,000 data points per second), heterogeneity, velocity and dynamics of structured and unstructured data that is produced during their care [VIDEO]...
Read MoreOur very own MCIRCC Catalyst Team members, Mark Salamango and Ashwin Belle, PhD are the very first non care workers at U-M to not only attempt, but successfully complete, the American Heart Association’s Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) course...
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