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Modern Healthcare: HHS tasks new office to battle disease threats with technology

“HHS launched a new initiative that it hopes will help it track and end infectious disease threats before they become full-fledged epidemics.”

“The agency opened a new office known as the Division for Research, Innovation and Ventures (DRIVe), which created a network of private partners known as accelerators. The organizations will seek out startups and other businesses and help them develop their technologies and treatments to detect and battle infectious diseases…” Read the full article here.

Source: HHS tasks new office to battle disease threats with technology – By Virgil Dickson, June 5, 2018. Modern Healthcare.

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Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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