The Iowa Primary Care Association was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to help fund an effort to develop, train and pilot a “fairness-aware” artificial intelligence/machine learning model with the goal of improved health outcomes for patients served by Iowa’s community health centers. The $523,750 NIH AIM-AHEAD grant…
Cedar Rapids-based venture studio Novy is starting to spin up a new startup that aims to take on a big problem: Emergency room schedules, which take a long time to create and are creating physician burnout. Novy, which launched in November 2023, aims to build innovative health care software companies. Partners Krista…
Editor’s Note: This story is the second in a series of three stories that explain a new startup in Iowa. To read part one on Claimable, click here.In 2022, Paul H. Richardson Jr. decided in 2022 to take a road trip. A big one. He bought an RV, packed up his…
Editor’s Note: This story is the first in a series of three stories that explain a new startup in Iowa. Zach Veigulis, the co-founder and chief AI officer of Claimable, calls his startup the Turbo Tax for insurance claims. Users upload medical documents, answer a questionnaire and within minutes have an…
The Latina Business Excellence Summit has announced this year’s theme for its second annual event in Des Moines: “Health: Intersecting Financial, Physical and Mental Well-being.”The 2025 summit will be held Aug. 9, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Drake University’s Sheslow Auditorium, 2507 University Ave. The event is the signature event of…
Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences recently hosted its inaugural Innovation Tank, a new competition designed to spark creative thinking and cross-disciplinary collaboration in tackling real-world health care challenges. Organized by DMU’s Office of Research, the team-based event brought together six interdisciplinary groups of students, faculty and staff across…
University of Iowa Health Care has added three new da Vinci 5 robotic-assisted surgical systems, one of the latest minimally invasive technologies on the market. The three new da Vinci 5s are the first in Iowa and will double the health system’s capacity for robotic-assisted minimally invasive procedures, enabling approximately…
Ty Hill is a project leader at the Center for Industrial Research and Service at Iowa State University, and he has a message about exoskeletons for Iowa companies: “They exist and that they’re not something that’s out of your reach,” Hill said. CIRAS is running a pilot program to introduce…
The Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University of Northern Iowa is launching the Rural Compost Operations and Compost Use Training Project, which aims to teach attendees how to compost food waste, including best management practices and strategies to use compost to protect local water resources from pollutants and contaminants. The project is funded…
When Clair Williams-Vavra went to Techstars Startup Weekend, she had a seven-year-old idea to help moms going through hard times after giving birth. Once known as postpartum depression, it’s now referred to as perinatal mood and anxiety disorder, or as Williams-Vavra, 37, refers to it: being in “a hole.” She…