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Kitware to Develop Quantitative Cancer Assessment Environment

Press Release | Kitware, Inc. | October 3, 2012

Kitware, a leading-edge software R&D and consulting provider, today announces the award of $298,436 in Phase I SBIR funding from the National Institutes of Health. The funding will be used to develop an ultrasound-based quantitative diagnostic approach for assessing tumor malignancy and predicting tumor outcomes. Read More »

Millions of Americans Live Nowhere Near a Hospital, Jeopardizing Their Lives

Caitlin Ostroff and Ciara Bri'd Frisbie | CNN | August 3, 2017

As a nurse practitioner, Wanda Liddell knew it was a medical emergency when she saw one of her patients struggling to breathe last month. But in her backcountry town of Cross City, Florida, the ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive. Even worse, it was another 45 miles to the nearest hospital. Liddell faces this situation often and always wonders, what if? She is one of many medical providers working in towns 30 miles or more from a hospital, a distance that can make the difference between life or death...

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