Canon Medical is unveiling its recently FDA cleared Aplio i600 ultrasound system. It’s intended for both diagnostic and interventional procedures, featuring a bunch of tools that make setup quick and intuitive. An image-guide interface helps to move the clinician through the imaging exam. Canon touts the ergonomic design of the Aplio i600 that allows the […]
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Student Engineers Create Foot Inspection Device for People with Diabetic Neuropathy
People suffering from diabetic neuropathy often can’t feel the soles of their feet. They can also develop dangerous wounds on those soles that may not be detected early enough, sometimes leading to infections, debridements, and amputations. There aren’t a lot of cheap options for keeping an eye on the bottoms of the feet. Mirrors are […]
Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucometer Doesn’t Require Finger Pricks
Dexcom landed FDA clearance under the de novo classification process for its Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitor, which can be used as a standalone monitor or as a part of an automated insulin delivery system. The neatest feature of the Dexcom G6 is that the sensor doesn’t require calibration and so pricking the finger can […]
Dario Glucometer Now Works on iPhones without Headphone Jack
DarioHealth, based in New York City and Caesarea, Israel, won FDA clearance for the Lightning-enabled version of its Dario glucometer, making it compatible with the iPhone 7, 8, and X. Previously, the Dario relied on the headphone jack to transmit its readings to the Dario app on the smartphone. When Apple made the decision to […]
Monarch Robotic Endoscopy for Spotting Small, Deep-Seated Lung Nodules Cleared by FDA
Auris Health, based in Redwood City, California, is showing off its brand new Monarch Platform for robotic, accurate endoscopic navigation through the lungs. The Monarch helps physicians to reach more places within the lungs and find smaller lesions, potentially providing a more accurate diagnosis of the presence of lung cancer. The potential for the technology […]
Pythagoras Medical’s ConfidenHT System for Precise Renal Denervations
Renal denervation for treating drug resistant hypertension involves severing renal nerves, through ablation. The kidneys play a key role in regulating blood pressure via these nerves, but the functionality goes awry in many hypertensive patients, so breaking the kidneys ability to regulate blood pressure seems to work in many. The problem is that high percentage […]
New Technologies for Remote Cardiac Monitoring by Biotricity: Interview with CEO Waqaas Al-Siddiq
New on the scene of remote monitoring, Biotricity is tackling cardiovascular disease with a “real-time, high-precision remote monitoring technology.” Earlier this year, the company secured FDA 510k approval for Bioflux, a 3-channel electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system designed for use by physicians. Triggered notifications about a patient’s potential bradycardia, tachycardia, or atrial fibrillation events, based on […]
DeltaVen Closed System Peripheral IV Catheter Cleared in U.S.
Smiths Medical won FDA clearance and is releasing the DeltaVen Closed System Catheter, a product actually made by the Italian company Delta Med SpA. The peripheral IV catheter combines the needle, extension tubing, and an optional needlesless connector into one system. Clinicians can feel the insertion of the catheter into the vein during threading that’s […]
Philips Unveils First Live Tele-Ultrasound System
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 physicians to have a clear sense of […]
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 infiltrations and […]
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 approach to wearable technology, on the other hand, […]
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 which quantifies tissue elasticity, particularly useful when […]
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 the […]
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 rectified, mainly […]
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 the […]
PhoneSoap Med+ Cleans Smartphones, Tablets, Stethoscopes with UV
Considering that almost every person entering a hospital is carrying a smartphone, there’s constant worry that pathogens have an easy way to invade the very places they need to be kept out of the most. Now a new device is coming to market that was designed to quickly disinfect phones, tablets, and other small devices […]
Low-Cost 3D-Printed Stethoscope for Low-Resource Areas
Scientists at the University of Western Ontario, aka Western University, have developed a 3D-printed stethoscope. The device costs just $3 to produce and takes less than three hours to print, but maintains the acoustic quality of more expensive stethoscopes. The researchers hope that the device could be useful in low-resource settings, where medical equipment is […]
Accurate Cuff-less Blood Pressure Measurement on a Smartphone
Blood pressure is a critical vital sign and patients, particularly those with cardiovascular conditions, are often directed to take readings on their own on a regular basis. Of course too few of them do as prescribed, and the lack of motivation has a lot to do with the fact that blood pressure measurement devices tend […]
aerSleep System for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (Interview)
TTP Ventus, UK-based developer of Disc Pump, a tiny, quiet, and very efficient pump, and Sommetrics, US-based creator of aerSleep negative-pressure treatment system for obstructive sleep apnea, teamed up to develop the slimmed-down tetherless aerSleep system. aerSleep has just recently been approved for marketing to patients in Canada. Obstructive sleep apnea is caused by airway […]
ACUSON Bonsai, a Powerful Cardio Ultrasound in a Small, Portable Package
At the just concluded American College of Cardiology’s 67th Annual Scientific Session and Expo, Siemens Healthineers introduced its new ACUSON Bonsai portable cardiovascular ultrasound. The company touts the system’s powerful cardio imaging and measurement capabilities, quick setup and operation, and a compact and easy to move around package that’s tuned to go from patient to patient performing echo […]