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Digital Surgery touts artificial intelligence for the operating room
Dr. Sanjay Purkayastha at Imperial College performs a bariatric procedure to demonstrate the efficacy of Digital Surgery’s AI platform. [Image courtesy of Digital Surgery]Officials at Digital Surgery...
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Philips buys military health-monitoring software
Chief Master Sgt. Robert Bean, an Air Force pararescue jumper, demonstrates how Batdok can be worn on the wrist, displaying the health status of multiple patients. (Photo byRichard Eldridge/US Air...
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Livongo touts first connected BP monitor
(Image courtesy of Livongo Health) Consumer digital health company Livongo Health today announced the first cellular-enabled blood pressure monitoring system in the U.S. Cellular connectivity allows...
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NucleusHealth wins investment from large Ohio health system
Cloud-based medical image exchange company NucleusHealth has landed an undisclosed “strategic investment” from Mercy Health, an Ohio–based health care system that is now a minority investor in the San...
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What you should know about today’s top trends in medtech
Medtech’s hottest topics in M&A, intellectual property, finance and regulation will be on the agenda at DeviceTalks Boston Oct. 8-11. Patent attorney David Dykeman from the Boston office of the...
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Provation touts cloud-based medical procedure platform
Clinical productivity software maker Provation Medical has launched Apex, a cloud-based procedure documentation SaaS platform designed to improve outcomes, clinical efficiency and physician...
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Senators question basis for FDA’s digital health pre-cert pilot
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass., left), Tina Smith (D-Minn., center) and Patty Murray (D-Wash. right) [Images are public domain]Three Democratic senators representing major high tech and medtech hubs...
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock hospitals to deploy Philips’ tele-ICU program
(Image courtesy of Royal Philips) Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (Lebanon, N.H.) has agreed to implement Royal Philips’ (NYSE: PHG) eICU program technology. The program aims to help reduce mortality,...
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Hospital software dev Jump Tech raises $3m
Hospital supply chain solutions developer Jump Technologies said today it closed a $2 million follow-on investment round. The Eagan, Minn.-based company developed and supports the JumpStock...
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What is the future of medtech in 2019?
[Image from Unsplash]A global push to increase medical device industry regulation and the continued blurring of high tech and medtech – those are but some of the predictions that Medical Design &...
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What you need to know about growing cyber threats to medtech
Medical devices are an especially rich cybersecurity target for malicious activity by those seeking commercial gain or just trying to wreak havoc. And while data theft is a serious threat, the risks...
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Cynerio poised to enter U.S. healthcare cybersecurity market
Cynerio said it has completed a $7 million funding round to fuel growth in North America for its healthcare-focused cybersecurity platform. Investors include global venture capital firms, Accelmed, an...
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UnitedHealth Group’s Optum sues VP who left for Amazon venture
[Image from Unsplash]UnitedHealth Group’s Optum IT-based health services unit has sued former VP David Smith, claiming that he misappropriated trade secrets before leaving to join a new healthcare...
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Hospitals to medtech: Clean up your cybersecurity act
[Image courtesy of Blogtrepreneur on Flickr, per Creative Commons 2.0 license]A consortium of hospital associations wants the medical device industry to up its game when it comes to interoperability...
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VivaLNK launches medical wearable sensor platform
VivaLNK (Campbell, Calif.) said today that it has launched a medical wearable sensor platform that includes a host of sensors, edge computing technologies, and an Internet of Health Things data cloud....
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IEEE publishes safety standards draft for medtech interoperability
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standards Association said it has published a draft set of standards intended to provide safe and secure medical device interoperability....
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Sen. Warner enlists healthcare industry help on cybersecurity
[Image courtesy of Blogtrepreneur on Flickr, per Creative Commons 2.0 license]U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) wrote a letter to several healthcare organizations yesterday, asking their help in...
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How NeuroMetrix seeks to better relieve pain with AI
NeuroMetrix’s Quell 2.0 [Image courtesy of NeuroMetrix]NeuroMetrix plans to add artificial intelligence to the latest iteration of its Quell transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) device....
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Sotera Wireless adds tools to patient monitoring system
Sotera Wireless said it has upgraded its ViSi Mobile patient monitoring system to detect atrial fibrillation, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia, and to provide asystole analysis....
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GE Healthcare adds Adventist Health to hospital collaborator list
GE Healthcare has signed an agreement to provide advanced analytics and reduce process variation for the 21-hospital Adventist Health system in California, Oregon and Hawaii, the health system...
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Medical device cybersecurity: It’s time to get real
Medical device makers, regulators and healthcare delivery organizations are increasingly working together to strengthen cybersecurity. But are they doing enough? [Original image courtesy of...
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Artificial intelligence and medicine: Is it overhyped?
Artificial intelligence raises exciting possibilities for healthcare, but are companies promising more than they can deliver? [Original image from iStock]AI could possibly fuel the future of medtech,...
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Medigate spreads into healthcare IOT
Medical device security firm Medigate said today that it is expanding into clinical IoT and general IoT devices. The company developed and supports a medical device security and asset management...
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J&J and its surgical orthopedic robot: What you need to know
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) isn’t known for tooting its horn prematurely. The public won’t hear much about a new J&J device until the company’s good and ready. So it should come as no surprise...
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5 digital health startups you need to watch in 2019
(Image from Unsplash) Funding for digital health companies continues to rise, with 2018 the biggest year so far this decade, according to healthcare investment firm StartUp Health. Investors took a...
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