Expert shares information on medical apps for clinical practice

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


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.