Philips, in a partnership with Innovative Imaging Technologies, a company out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is releasing the first telemedicine system that transmits live ultrasound images during scans performed by a paramedic or nurse to a physician’s smartphone, tablet, or computer. Audio and video are shared as well, allowing physician (Read more...)
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ivWatch Detects IV Infiltrations and Extravasations: Interview with Gary Warren, President and CEO
ivWatch is a medical device manufacturer who we met with during CES 2018 in Las Vegas a couple months ago. They have developed of a non-invasive device that aims to establish a new standard of care for peripheral intravenous (IV) monitoring. The FDA-cleared ivWatch continuously monitors a patient’s IV for the early detection of inf (Read more...)
VitalConnect Introduces an Integrated Patient-Monitoring Platform: Interview with CCO, Bill Brodie
In a world of big data analytics and quantified-selfers, wearable technology companies are uniquely positioned to bring about measurable differences in our everyday lives. While Fitbits and Apple Watches are common on wrists around the U.S., some industry leaders have called their true utility into question. VitalConnect’s unique approac (Read more...)
Instant Wave-Free Ratio for the Assessment of Coronaries: Interview with Andrew Tochterman of Philips
Philips offers a portfolio of advanced image-guided therapy devices, and has developed instant wave-free ratio (iFR), a method to assess if a coronary stenosis is causing myocardial ischemia. If a coronary vessel is partially occluded, it is important to assess the extent to which it is reducing the blood supply to the myocardium, as this [… (Read more...)
Wearable, High Resolution Magnetoencephalograph Allows Studies in Moving Subjects
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) allows researchers and clinicians to see the electrical activity within the brain. When a neuron fires and sends electric current down the axon, the current generates a tiny magnetic field. Because the fields are so weak, special magnetometers called SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices) are us (Read more...)
Samsung Unveils RS85A, a New Premium General Ultrasound
Samsung received FDA clearance and is unveiling its new RS85A general purpose premium ultrasound system. It features the company’s technologies such as MV-Flow, which lets clinicians see flow through micro vascularized structures and help diagnose cancer in many cases, and S-Shearwave Imaging (shown above), a shearwave elastography technique (Read more...)
Tooth Sensor Measures Intake of Sugar, Salt, Alcohol
Having an accurate record of food and alcohol intake is important for managing a number of diseases including diabetes, various cardiovascular conditions, and alcoholism. Currently, not much practical technology is available to do this aside from smartphone apps, and apps tend to be tedious and require constant vigilance of making sure to input all (Read more...)
Brain Stethoscope Turns Brain Waves to Sound to Diagnose Silent Seizures
The brain produces what looks like a messy jumble of waves (EEG) that are hard for anyone without special training to make sense of. Researchers at Stanford are overcoming that by turning all those brain waves into sound waves, and in the process allowing clinicians who are not EEG specialists to easily detect silent seizures. […]
Rendering Brain Tissue Transparent with OPTIclear to Unlock Secrets of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Researchers from Imperial College London and The University of Hong Kong have published results in Nature Communications of a revolutionary process that renders human brain tissue transparent and allows the complex network of neurons to be mapped. This technique of clearing alters brain tissue’s optical properties without impacting the cell s (Read more...)
Interview with Ori Geva, CEO of Medial EarlySign: A Healthcare Data Analytics Startup
Predictive analytics is the practice of learning from historical data in contemplation of making decisions about the future. Predictive analytics is not new to healthcare. However, in the past it has been limited by many factors, including data availability and accessibility. Over the last few years, the issue of data availability has been rectifie (Read more...)
Applications are Open for The Data Incubator’s Summer Data Science Fellowship Program
Applications are now being accepted for The Data Incubator’s Summer Data Science Fellowship opportunity. The Data Incubator is a data science training organization supported by Cornell University. In addition to running the fellowship program, The Data Incubator also facilitates data science courses and provides resources to both hi (Read more...)
An Exclusive with Christine Storm of Philips on FocusPoint and Tele-ICU Innovations
In February 2018, Philips announced the debut of FocusPoint, a network application management system to help improve biomedical and IT department productivity. Depending on the size of a health system, there can be hundreds to thousands of medical devices and network equipment, making it difficult for IT and biomedical staff to have visibility into (Read more...)
mi-eye 2 Portable In-Office Arthroscopy System Cleared in EU, Canada
Trice Medical, a firm based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, won the European CE Mark of approval and received Canada’s regulatory green light for its mi-eye 2 portable arthroscopy system. The whole package consists of a tablet computer and an arthroscope that has both a camera and light source built the needle. The arthroscopic component is si (Read more...)
Artificial Kinesthetic Feedback Improves Control of Prosthetic Devices
Unlike mechanical machines, our bodies perform seemingly simple tasks by relying on extremely complicated neurological processes. Even something as simple as moving one’s hand involves high-precision feedback loops that allow the brain to constantly monitor and adjust the hand’s motion. Because people using prostheses can’t feel w (Read more...)
Interview with Glenn Snyder, Medical Technology Segment Leader at Deloitte
Deloitte is one of the leading innovators in the world focused on value-based care and medical technology. In this emerging world, it is a business imperative for medtech companies to understand, demonstrate, and clearly articulate how their offerings can not only improve patient outcomes but also create value for key health care stakeholders. (Read more...)
Nanofiber Dressings Speed Up Healing of Serious Wounds
Researchers at Harvard University have come up with two new wound dressings that promote healing without relying on growth factors, cells, or even artificial scaffolds. Instead, natural proteins that are found in soy and human fetus cells are made to speed up the body’s natural healing processes, including performing tricks that only fetal ti (Read more...)
Partial Wave Spectroscopy Spots Cells Turning to Cancer
Detecting cancer in the body usually happens when the disease is already well underway to being mortally dangerous. Although there’s a myriad of cancers and ways to detect them, diagnostic tests typically look for biomarkers produced by tumors. And the bigger the tumor, the more biomarkers it releases, so the bigger it is the easier [… (Read more...)
Artificial Organelles Allow Manipulation of Chemical Processes Inside Cells
At the University of Basel in Switzerland, researchers have come up with a way of implanting artificial organelles into individual cells of zebrafish embryos. Introducing artificial organelles into cells can allow for manipulation of inter-cellular activities that are otherwise very difficult to influence. Artificial organelles can be made to carry (Read more...)
Cardiomyocyte Molds to Improve Cardiac Cell Therapy
Researchers at Michigan Tech and Harvard Medical School have developed a new way to create cardiomyocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), for improved cardiac cell therapy. The team developed a culture mold that mimics the physiological conditions under which cardiomyocytes grow. When the team tested the molds, they found that the cell (Read more...)
Blockchain Technology for Transparent Drug Pricing: Interview with Cambridge Consultants
Frustration with the US pharmaceutical industry has been on the rise along with the steadily increasing out-of-pocket copays for prescriptions drugs. The news cycle has also been reporting more frequently on extreme overnight price hikes on, at times, life-saving drugs. Many people are suspecting foul play because drug price negotiations (Read more...)