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How the Gates Foundation and Seattle nonprofit PATH are helping get oxygen to India

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million into efforts by Seattle-based nonprofit PATH to bring more oxygen to COVID-19 patients in India. The problem is that COVID patients require far more oxygen than hospitals would use on a patient with another disease, said Mohammed Ameel, PATH’s head of primary healthcare, technology and innovations in New Delhi. ” he said.

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Compass Health COO on leading a century-old healthcare org into telemedicine amid a pandemic

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The COVID-19 crisis isn’t the first global pandemic experienced by Compass Health, a nonprofit caring for mental health and substance abuse patients. The suite of telehealth tools, dubbed Compass Health Bridge , helps remove patients’ barriers to treatment, including transportation and childcare challenges.

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

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The idea for Blues came from Ozzie’s work as a board director at Safecast , a data monitoring nonprofit that launched in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Blues has many large enterprise customers across industries such as agriculture, automotive, construction, healthcare, retail, and transportation.

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25 Years Later: InfraGard Leads the Way Toward a Safer America

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The private sector component of the InfraGard program is represented by InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA), an FBI-affiliated independent nonprofit organization. Currently, the IT sector has the highest number of members in InfraGard, followed by the financial services and healthcare/public health sectors.

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

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Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk), Recruitment of Eminent Investigator in HealthCare Science and Discovery Research , Dr. Jerry Nadler, $250,000, Life Sciences. Eastern Virginia Eye Institute (Chesapeake), Corneal Endothelial Allograft Transport and Transplant Device , Dr. Sandeep Samudre, $100,000, Life Sciences.

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SMU Continues To Innovate In Cyber Security Innovation: Launches new institute and innovation gym

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The work of the institute will have a far-reaching impact, spanning retail, defense, technology, healthcare, energy, government, finance and transportation – everything that makes our world work.”. Kate Canales is director of design and innovation for the Lyle School and Greg Needel is director of the Deason Innovation Gym.

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Tech Moves: Crowd Cow adds ex-Amazon leaders; former Expedia CTO joins Snap! Raise

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Prior to Flexe, Glick spent almost two decades at Amazon and was VP of Amazon’s transportation and fulfillment technologies. Raise sold off its Advance fundraising product for universities and nonprofits to Israel-based Graduway. Pluto7’s Healthcare Applications and Services Director Dipty Desai , based in California.

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