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Recent News
Partners Healthcare to Introduce New Platform for Recording Patients Data
Partners Healthcare is launching a new online system, Connected Health Integration Pathway (CHIP), to make workflow easier for clinicians as well as to provide an easy platform for patients to securely record and share their medical information with their care team. CHIP will be used to integrate patient-generated health data into Epic Hyperspace, which is Partners’ electronic health record system.
How a 3D Model of Alzheimer’s Disease is Providing New Hope in the Search for Treatments
Reigning in Alzheimer’s disease continues to be a challenge — more than 10 million families are affected by this degenerative neurological disease, and the number of patients dying from the disease has increased 68 percent since 2010. In the past decade, attempts at developing drugs to slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease have
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Health Literacy and Science Communication: Two Sides of the Same Health Communication Coin?
Considering that 72 percent of internet users looked up health information online in the last year, yet half of Americans read at an 8th grade level or below, there’s a clear need for digital health materials that all readers can understand
Wireless Sleep Monitoring System Could Make Sleep Studies Much Easier
Researchers from MIT and Mass General recently unveiled a wireless, portable system for monitoring individuals during sleep that could provide new insights into sleep disorders and reduce the need for time and cost-intensive overnight sleep studies in a clinical sleep lab.
Liquid Biopsies Give Clues on When and Why Cancer Treatments Lose their Efficacy
Researchers have been looking for a safe, fast, less expensive and more accurate way to identify early signs of treatment resistance, while also searching for new insights into the genetic changes that occur within tumor cells to drive this resistance. This way, new therapy plans can be considered sooner, giving the patient a better chance for their best possible outcome.
Meet our Fall Communications Intern!
Please join us in welcoming Nishtha Yadav, a graduate student at Emerson College and our communications intern this semester. Be sure to check back here for updates on what she’s working on!
HUBweek Art of Talking Science Competition Recap
A recap of our second annual Art of Talking Science Competition, which focused on AI and machine learning.
Four Massachusetts General Hospital Researchers Receive Prestigious NIH Director’s Awards
Please join us in congratulating the four Mass General investigators who recently received director’s awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)!
Brain Imaging Studies Provide New Insights into Biological Basis of Behaviors in Schizophrenia and Autism
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are using brain imaging technology to learn more about how individuals with autism and schizophrenia view the world through different lenses.
Researchers Develop a Promising New Test for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Known as the “Alzheimer’s of the eye,” AMD affects nearly five million people across the world. How a new blood-based test could help.