Harvard teams with NFLPA on ResearchKit app for football injuries
Thursday, the NFLPA and Harvard's Football Players Health Study released TeamStudy, an iPhone app built on ResearchKit framework.
Cleveland Clinic app helps trainers assess, manage sports injuries
Cleveland Clinic's Sideline Guidelines contains medical information and branching logic to help trainers and other medical professionals diagnose sports injuries on the sidelines, plan training schedules and decide when an athlete is medically able to return to play.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
FDA-cleared iPhone app measures balance as a part of concussion screening on the sidelines
A concussion can manifest itself a variety of ways, from a headache to impaired memory to slurred speech. That’s why athletic trainers, nurses and physicians have a growing toolkit of assessment techniques for evaluating athletes who undergo a blow or jolt to the head. One piece that’s missing from that toolkit, according to Oklahoma entrepreneur […]
“Biologically active putty” under development could help bone fractures heal quicker
Tiger Woods and Hines Ward are just two of the athletes who have received platelet-rich plasma therapy – a procedure where doctors take a small sample of patient’s blood, separate the platelet-rich plasma, and inject it at the site of an injury after surgery to accelerate tissue healing. The therapy is gaining traction in sports […]
Hand-held concussion-screening device picks up $2.2 million; could launch this year
A portable, hand-held device that uses a drop of blood to screen athletes and military personnel for concussions could soon be on the market if all goes well for an Arizona medical device startup. That company is BioDirection Inc. and it’s just raised most of a $3 million round of private financing, according to a […]
Wow of the Week: Kevin Ware’s gruesome injury, apparently, happens “all the time”
It was the snap seen around the world, but for the surgeons who operated on Kevin Ware, it was pretty much business as usual. Don’t worry, I won’t post the nauseating video of the University of Louisville basketball player’s right tibia buckling and protruding through his skin during Sunday’s game. But I will show this […]
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.