Cell Podium Awarded Phase I SBIR From The Center For Disease Control And Prevention
Cell Podium has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Contract from the CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.This contract is focused on developing and evaluating mobile data protocols for emergency response tools.
Online, September 10, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Newark, NJ- Cell Podium has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (formerly the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response).This award will allow Cell Podium to develop and evaluate mobile data communications for terrorism preparedness and emergency response tools that supplement text messaging with multimedia.
Cell Podium will team up with the Office of Public Health Practice (OPHP) and the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness (NJCPHP) of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health (UMDNJ-SPH) to evaluate the utility and feasibility of ubiquitous mobile multimedia messaging for terrorism preparedness and emergency response. The effort will design and evaluate MMS interoperability solutions, including those already in use at the Atlantic OSHA Training Center, and assess their utility in different terrorism preparedness and emergency response scenarios, including communications with field personnel, the public, and institutions. Requirements assessment will be verified with local, state, and federal health and response agencies.
Dr. Cesar Bandera, co-founder of Cell Podium and Principal Investigator of the CDC project, is excited about the innovations being made to be able to automatically relay content in existing client multimedia repositories and handle millions of users from coast to coast for CDC. He also goes on to say, "With CDC as a client, Cell Podium will grow side-by-side with one of the leading users of social media in the Federal Government." The effort will also design interfaces between mobile multimedia and existing social media providers and evaluate their ability to accelerate the propagation of time-critical information (e.g., viral media distribution on Twitter).
For additional information on Cell Podium, contact Cesar Bandera or visit www.cellpodium.com .