BOSTON — Mobile apps are becoming increasingly common in health care, with 20,000 available on iTunes and the Android Store related to medicine, according to Sameer Badlani, MD, FACP, chief health information officer at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City.“Apps are like sushi: You really have to try a few and see what you like,” Badlani said during his presentation here at the ACP Internal Medicine meeting, where he discussed the various categories of medical apps and shared with the audience those he has found most useful.
Second Sight Announces Senior Management Appointments in Commercialization and Manufacturing
SYLMAR, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:EYES) (“Second Sight” or “the Company”), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics to restore functional vision to blind patients, today announced two senior management appointments in commercialization and manufacturing. As discussed on its fourth quarter 2014 conference call, the Company will be making several key hires as it continues the transition from an R&D focused organization
pSivida Corp. Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2015 Financial Results Release Date and Conference Call Information
WATERTOWN, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–pSivida Announces May 8 for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2015 Financial Results and Release Date and Conference Call Information
VIDEO: PDEK allows donor material from any aged eye
SAN DIEGO — At the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting here, Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth discusses advantages of performing pre-Descemet’s endothelial keratoplasty or PDEK over DSAEK or DMEK procedures.
Microkeratome flap may induce more higher-order aberrations than femtosecond laser flap
Microkeratome LASIK flap creation induced more higher-order aberrations than femtosecond flap creation, according to a study.“Hinge position did not appear to influence the induction of coma directly, contrary to previously published reports. The difference in aberrations induction between the two groups might be due to the differences in flap thickness profiles,” the study authors said.
Inherited Retinal Degenerative Disease Registry
Status: Recruiting,
Condition Summary: Eye Diseases Hereditary; Retinal Disease; Achromatopsia; Bardet-Biedl Syndrome; Bassen-Kornzweig Syndrome; Batten Disease; Best Disease; Choroidal Dystrophy; Choroideremia; Cone Dystrophy; Cone-Rod Dystrophy; Con…