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HRSA seeks tech to aid remote monitoring of pregnant women

September 27, 2017

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The Health Resources and Services Administration is offering $375,000 in prizes to innovators who develop low-cost technologies to improve prenatal care in remote and medically underserved regions.

HRSA, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is seeking proposals for solutions from coders, public health experts, community leaders, academic institutions, researchers and others in the private sector.

Technology advances are improving the ability of providers to use wearable biosensors to remotely monitor patients, including athletes, premature infants, psychiatric patients, persons in long-term care, the elderly and those in medically underserved areas, according to the agency.

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