Your opportunity to help change the world in healthcare: Check out these RFP's from Microsoft Research

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re: Your opportunity to help change the world in healthcare: Check out these RFP's from Microsoft Research

Kristin Tolle, PM Biomedical Computing, MSR — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:59:19 GMT

Hello to Bill's readers! I'm Kristin Tolle, the Program Manager in Microsoft Research managing the two RFPs that Bill describes above. These RFPs are to further a variety of academic research in these two areas. I thought I'd post a quick comment to answer some common questions I've been receiving.

At present we are still working on the request for proposal text for all of the RFPs we are running. I anticipate that the details for these two will be posted in September at: http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/default.aspx. The funding is targeted at for academic institutions only. It is a worldwide RFP (no limitation on researcher location).

So please keep an eye on the website above and if you have an interest, by all means apply!

re: Your opportunity to help change the world in healthcare: Check out these RFP's from Microsoft Research

Kristin Tolle, PM Biomedical Computing, MSR — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:09:31 GMT

Just a few more answers to a few more questions.

My alias is ktolle [at] Microsoft [dot] com. Please contact me directly if you have questions instead of Tami Begasse.

The Request for Proposals (RFP) on “Genome Wide Association Studies” opens on December 2nd and close on January 31st. The announcement of awards will be made in mid March of next year.

The RFP for "Cellphone as a Platform for Healthcare" will open on September 15th. The close date is October 29th. We’ll be announcing the awards in January.

All submissions must come from an accredited academic institution.

re: Your opportunity to help change the world in healthcare: Check out these RFP's from Microsoft Research

Dr John Currie — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:37:15 GMT

Dear Sir, I wonder if you would be interested in my project in South Australia. I am currently studying how people recover from day case anaesthesia. To this end I have developed a questionnaire to be completed the followoing day regarding their wellbeing and have developed a small device to measure their ability to perform. (This is often referred to as psychomotor testing.) The small device is in fact a Nokia cell phone which has had a suitable application written for it by the local university medical devices department . The basic psychomotor tests coded for currently are:

reaction time

choice reaction time

finger tapping test - a test of motor skills

These skills can be performed by the patients before a day case procedure and then again in the day surgery unit after their procedure. The aim is to ensure that patients will be safe to return home and discover at what level they are able to function. The test data is stored on the cell phone and downloaded later as a Microsoft Excel spread sheet for analysis.

So far the machine works well.

Two areas need development. I would like to incorporate a test of short term memory. - a digit span test is well understood in the fields of medicine and psychology. Secondly, another test for mental processing called a digit symbol substitution test. These additional tests would be able to tease out more information about just how people recover from day surgery procedures.

Perhaps this use of a cell phone and microsoft software is the sort of project you would be interested to hear about.

I am currently funding this project entirely with my own money. Any help with developing the two additional tests described above would be greatly appreciated, but I understand if you are unable to offer any assistance.

Yous sincerely,

Dr John currie

Anaesthetist

South Australia

re: Your opportunity to help change the world in healthcare: Check out these RFP's from Microsoft Research

hlthblog — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:07:29 GMT

Dr. Currie,

Please send your inquiry directly to Kristin Tolle ktolle@microsoft.com. She is in the best position to advise on possible next steps regarding the RFP.

Bill Crounse, MD Worldwide Health Director Microsoft

re: Your opportunity to help change the world in healthcare: Check out these RFP's from Microsoft Research

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re: Your opportunity to help change the world in healthcare: Check out these RFP's from Microsoft Research

Joe Seidel — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:29:35 GMT

I am interested in finding out some of the names of the people who respond to your RFP for Smart Phone health applications. Our compnay, New IOT Healthcare has a remote patient monitoring solution that runs on smart phones. I would be interested in talking to the researchers. I can be reached at my email address joe.seidel@newithealthcare.com

Thanks!