Welcome and Opening Statements
- A reminder to all HC-SIG members that this meeting is being recorded
- Videoconferencing/teleconferencing connect details are available here
- Videoconferencing/teleconferencing connect details are available here
Introductions
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Tell us where you're geographically located
Share with us your interests in healthcare in general, and blockchain technologies in specific
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Community Announcements
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HC-SIG Subgroup Updates
Patient/Member Subgroup (Deniz Coskun, Lead)
Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)
Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (Steven Elliott, Lead)
HC-SIG Ad Hoc Team Updates
Wiki Redesign Team
Work continues on our SIG site design
Discussion: are you a Confluence expert... interested in joining this team?
HC-SIG Use Case Development Team (Erika Beerbower, Lead)
COVID-19 Virus Pandemic Support
Funding from Around the World
Global
Grant Opportunities Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Updated JUL 05. GrantStation is now offering a filtering service for globally-available COVID-19 virus grants for non-profits and small businesses.
Canada
Canadian Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Rapid Research Funding Opportunity. Updated JUN 30. On March 31, 2020, through a contribution from Research Manitoba, Research Nova Scotia, and Alberta Innovates, CIHR was able to fund an additional three grants, bringing the total number of funded grants to 99 and a total investment of $54.2M.
Funding in the US
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Funding Opportunities for Small Businesses (SBIRs/STTRs). Updated MAR 27. The NCI participates in the NIH-issued SBIR and an STTR Omnibus grant solicitation for small businesses, which allow small businesses to submit researcher-initiated projects that are within NIH’s mission.
Attendees
Erika Beerbower
Mike McCoy
David Boswell
Tsvetan Georgiev
Alicia P
Daniel Watkins
Lea Dias
Si Chen
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Guest Presentation
- Senofi’s Consortia product enables you to rapidly configure, deploy and manage blockchain networks via Hyperledger Fabric. The company behind Consortia is a team of software developers with a background in designing, building enterprise technology stacks and large scale enterprise applications. One of the major industires of focus is healthcare in addition to supply chain management. The team will present a live demo of their clinical trial application deployment across multiple members
- Presentation slides
Next Meeting
Friday, October 2nd at 1000 Eastern
National Institute of Health (NIH) Funding Opportunities. Updated JUN 12. Urgent Competitive Revision to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Urgent Supplement - Clinical Trial Optional) recently updated through "Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Administrative Supplements and Revision Supplements on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)."
COVID Help for Families. A match-making service for for those offering help and those seeking help during this pandemic. Help Seekers can post urgent needs for Helpers in their area to see and fulfill. Helpers will be able to see those help requests in their area and offer help. The Helpers can get in touch with the Help Seekers and deliver the help that is requested
Additional COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
UC Davis Office of Research. Updated JUL 05. Provides a regularly updated set of links tied to COVID-19 funding opportunities across numerous US agencies, including Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Gates Foundation
New Business
Open Discussions
Next Meeting (New Meeting Time)
Schedule TBD
Discussion: topics to add to agenda
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