Denver, Atlanta and Memphis all have one thing in common: each was recognized as Google’s 2015 eCity of their respective states.
eCity awards recognize the strongest online businesses community in each state, according to the online site.
“Memphis is a musical city – it’s the birthplace of the blues and rock ‘n’ roll and a hotspot for country,” a Google economic impact report said. “The city also has a technology focus. The University of Memphis has a specialty in sensor research and has pioneered fully reconfigurable modular body-worn sensors for easy and portable vitality, cardiac and The Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge, or MD2K, is head- quartered at the U of M and is responsible for the sensor research. The center, which was one of 11 centers to be award- ed by the National Institutes of Health in 2014 for its role in the Big Data-to-Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, is made up of researchers from 12 universities and Open mHealth.
“We’re very pleased that MD2K’s research played a role in Memphis being recognized by Google as its Tennessee eCity,” Santosh Kumar
Open mHealth is a leader in source data integration tools.
The researchers develop tools that will make gathering, analyzing and interpreting health data easier with the help of mobile and wearable sensors. All of the data the team piles is used to find out how biological, behavioral, social and environmental factors can contribute to health and disease risk.
“We’re very pleased that MD2K’s research played a role in Memphis being recognized by Google as its Tennessee eCity,” Santosh Kumar, the Center’s director and lead investigator, said in the press release. “As we continue to develop Big Data- enabled innovative mobile technologies to improve health, we hope to bring additional positive recognition and opportunities to the University and the Memphis community.”
The full list of cities that can be found on an award on Google’s economic report.
