Nancy Crotti covers medical technology from St. Paul, Minnesota. She writes for websites, newspapers and magazines locally and nationally.
Makers of continuous positive airway pressure masks are using remote patient monitoring technology, paired with apps and phone calls to boost adherence to wearing these devices designed to treat obstructive sleep apnea.
Howard Root, CEO of Vascular Solutions, was declared not guilty of illegally promoting a medical device after a Department of Justice investigation that spanned several years.
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.
The medtech industry prides itself on helping improve patients’ lives, but it’s actually kind of selfish compared with other industries, medtech CEOs said at AdvaMed in Minneapolis.
Partnerships between insurers, health systems and medtech companies as well as insight gleaned from Big Data are going to key to the success of value-based care in the medical devices industry.
The diversified company is collaborating with Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world, to launch a medical device incubator where internal research projects as well as those working with outside entrepreneurs.
UPMC Enterprises is the innovation and commercialization arm of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and it has launched about 60 healthcare companies to date.
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.
Curavi Health's telemedicine product was built by taking into clinician feedback including workflows at nursing homes.
At Mayo's recently-concluded Transform conference, speakers highlighted a DNA-based stool test that shown to dramatically increase compliance to colon cancer screening.
For the last two years, the insurance company has been putting patients in 15 categories — such as "control seeker," "follower," "health nut" and "stubborn" — to better target their care and what the company sells them.
Mount Sinai Health System has recognized that there is a "staggering disconnect" between the health system and chronically ill patients, and is taking steps to overhaul its care delivery.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
A predictive analytics company takes the top prize at the Mayo Clinic Think Big Challenge, part of Mayo's Transform annual conference, and with it the right to commercialize a Mayo technology.
2016 is far from over, and in these last five years, payers have poured $900 million into digital health. Here's where and how some are making bets.
The company headed up patient engagement for Europe’s first remote clinical study to include full electronic informed consent.
Iggbo will use the new funding to develop its technology (including voice recognition), hire more employees, and expand sales and marketing efforts with diagnostic laboratories, health systems, providers, retailers, and payers.
The startup, launched by Boston University, has 65 task categories and more than 60,000 exercises and is available for use on an iPad, Android or Kindle tablet.