While we’re catching a high-risk population through preventive screenings, we are also identifying an entirely separate high-risk population: children of the patients that were just screened and found to have high risk polyps such as greater than 1 cm or with certain advanced characteristics.
Nvidia and Medtronic recently announced a collaboration focused on embedding AI into medical devices. The two companies plan to create marketplace for AI applications that will allow developers and clinicians to develop their own algorithms to use on Medtronic’s medical devices.
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.
Seventy-one percent of reusable medical scopes deemed ready for use on patients tested positive for bacteria at three major U.S. hospitals, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
The Pure-VU system from MOTUS GI allows physicians to clean an inadequately prepped colon during a colonoscopy such that they can see existences of what could be cancerous polyps.
Though a second collaboration has occurred, Check-Cap is still far behind its own timeline for gaining regulatory go-aheads for its camera-in-a-pill device.
A colonoscopy has never been advertised as a pleasant experience. However, it’s an important procedure and awareness for detecting cancer early on is essential. Turns out, all people really need in order to be proactive is a slight financial nudge – the potential for a $50 reward. In a new study led by a researcher at […]
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.
Germany was one of the first countries worldwide to introduce colonoscopy as part of its national statutory cancer screening program back in 2002. Researchers now have comprehensive data looking at how effective the screenings were in a study examing 4.4 million screening colonoscopies conducted between 2003 and 2012 – the most comprehensive evaluation to date, […]
It’s not your typical entrepreneur story. Mom, Dr. Marybeth Spanarkel, is a gastroenterologist and sees an unmet need in colonoscopies. She asked her sons to develop a device to help overcome the problem of looping. That’s when the endoscope tube forms loops behind the tip. It can increase the time the procedure takes, cause discomfort […]
The third generation of Given Imaging‘s PillCam SB got FDA approval today, and President and CEO Homi Shamir said the product should launch in October of this year. The device, a capsule with a camera inside which the patient swallows takes more than 60,000 images before it exits the digestive system. As the Israel-based continues […]
Avantis Medical Systems, Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif. based creator of the Third Eye Retroscope–a device that adds an extra view to a colonoscope, has raised $3,048,468 of venture capital to further commercialize its flagship product in the U.S., make small improvements to the product, as well as using a “little bit” work toward earning […]
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