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Featured News
Florida State University and Samsung launch groundbreaking Smart Health Home Initiative
The FSU College of Nursing and the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation announced a collaboration with Samsung Electronics America, Inc. to create a Smart Health Home space at Latitude Margaritaville Watersound, a 55-plus community in Bay County, Fla.
The groundbreaking initiative is the result of a recent partnership with Minto Communities USA, Margaritaville Holdings and St. Joe Company, and will harness the power of Samsung’s end-to-end wellness platform, SmartThings IoT technology and Health AI, to facilitate proactive health monitoring and wellness management for aging adults.
Set to debut in mid-2025, the Smart Health Home will serve as a model for the future of home-based wellness, as FSU College of Nursing and Samsung continue to speak out on the practices in home health technology and explore opportunities to expand into additional communities.
Renowned Nurse Innovator Joins FSU College of Nursing to Launch Nation’s First Nursing and AI Innovation Consortium
Celebrated entrepreneur, author and nursing innovator Rebecca Love is joining Florida State University’s College of Nursing to create the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium.
This first-of-its-kind program will be housed within the college’s Institute on Digital Health and Innovation and empower the new MSN in AI, the nation’s first master’s nursing program on AI in health care.
The new Nursing and AI Innovation Consortium will be co-directed by Rebecca Love, Dean Jing Wang and Dr. Lisa Hightow-Weidman.
“AI and digital health are rapidly growing areas, and we are leading the nation in it,” Hightow-Weidman said. “Rebecca’s first hand experience will provide our students with real-world scenarios and shine a spotlight on potential partnerships within the industry. I’m excited to see what we will achieve together.”
HealthMpowerment NEXT GEN: New Small Business Innovation Research Grant
IDHI and One Cow Standing have received a $1.9 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Building on years of prior human-centered design and research for our HealthMpowerment (HMP) platform, this grant allows us to refine and evaluate our digital health intervention, HMP NEXT GEN.