Luis E Bermudez, PhD.,HSR.health board member, to serve as head of U.S. operations for largest global provider of open source geospatial solutions Rockville, MD, Thursday, January 23, 2020 – Luis E. Bermudez, PhD, a long-time HSR.health Board member, started this year launching the GeoSolutions presence in the U.S. The formal announcement came via a blog […]

We are proud to announce that we’ve been invited to join the State of Maryland’s official delegation to the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress 2019,taking place from January 28th – 31st, 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Center in the United Arab Emirates. Arab Health is the premier healthcare industry trade show for the Middle […]

I recently returned from the Advanced Healthcare Analytics Summit (AHA) in Boston, Mass where I had the privilege to present the GeoHealth Dashboard and our current work towards addressing the Opioid Epidemic. The 2-day event was evenly split between speakers discussing the benefits data analytic approaches can bring to medicine and those, like ourselves, who […]

The Machine Learning & AI in Healthcare Conference concluded last week in Boston. I had the great opportunity to chair the conference and contribute to setting the agenda. Luis Bermudez, presented Addressing Health Challenges Through Spatial Analytics Using Geospatial Open Standards and Ram Peruvemba, spoke on leveraging the GeoHealth Dashboard to develop solutions to the opioid […]

Much of the press on the future of healthcare states that robots and computers will take over the practice of medicine.  Well, no evolution is without challenges – as seen in a recent Wall Street Journal article titled, “Hospital Falters in Bid to Use AI Tech” about the MD Anderson Cancer Center’s experience with IBM Watson’s recent […]

We received word today that HSR has been nominated for the Maryland Tech Council’s (TCM) Emerging Company award, based in large part on our GIS platform, GeoHealth Dashboard. We are truly honored and humbled by this nomination. The GeoHealth Dashboard is a Geographic Information System (GIS) with a data analytic engine that merges demographic data […]

I’ve attended a few of the HIMSS mHealth Summits, since they took place at the National Harbor resort in my home state of Maryland, but had not been to the main HIMSS conference before. Those who have been to both know that mHealth does not prepare you for HIMSS. HIMSS17 – the 17th annual HIMSS […]

Both Ram and I presented papers at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI2017) conference that wrapped up earlier today in Orlando, FL and are happy to report that our talk our GeoHealth Dashboard was well received indeed. The GeoHealth Dashboard My talk focused on the GeoHealth Dashboard we have built over the past […]

We are speaking, and for the first time, at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI-2017) conference next week in Orlando, Florida on Friday, February 17th. This is the flagship conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and immediately precedes the HIMSS 17 conference that we are also attending. […]

The opioid-abuse epidemic, both from illicit opioids (e.g., heroin) as well as prescription narcotics (e.g., Vicodin, Oxycodone), in the US is well documented. In addition to addiction treatment programs, a software tool has also been designed to help combat this epidemic – the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). What is the PDMP? At a high […]