Healthcare.gov has sparked a lot of well-earned criticism from its users — multiple crashes, mistake-laden applications and error messages galore that have thwarted applications. But a Massillon, Ohio man has found that perseverance has its own rewards. Lew Garrett’s endurance test of 3,118 attempts and 49 phone calls to sign up for Obamacare insurance would […]
In the past few years, pharmaceutical distributor Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) has acquired a major distributor and half a dozen pharmaceutical companies in China. It also acquired AssuraMed to enter the home-health supply market, and invested in startups including HealthSpot, which makes a telemedicine kiosk, and Intralign, which helps providers optimize the cost and quality of […]
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals (NYSE:NAVB) is getting some financial support from the NIH for its Alzheimer’s diagnostic technology as it advances into Phase 3 development. The National Institute of Aging awarded up to $1.8 million for a late-stage clinical trial of the Navidea’s PET beta-amyloid imaging agent, the company said. NAV4694 is designed to help clinicians detect […]
A business intelligence and healthcare analytics company spun out of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center by its former CIO has raised $5 million from health system investors. Health Care DataWorks will use the equity investments from MemorialCare Innovation Fund and Cedars-Sinai Health System to further product development and build infrastructure to scale the business, […]
Since debuting its telehealth kiosk at CES in January, three-year-old HealthSpot has raised at least $10.4 million in Series C funding and is working on building a national provider network so that it can set up its primary care kiosks in retail pharmacies. The new financing came from private investors including Cardinal Health, according to […]
As the number of laparoscopic procedures being performed at hospitals and surgery centers outgrows the number of open surgeries, facilities are investing millions of dollars into equipment to improve these procedures, like high-definition optics. But high definition video systems aren’t serving their purpose if the surgeon’s view is obstructed by fog and debris during surgery. […]
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.
After more than a decade of development and a couple regulatory delays, Navidea Biopharmaceuticals (NYSE:NAVB) finally got the FDA approval it needs to begin marketing its radiopharmaceutical Lymphoseek. In a conference call today, company executives declined to discuss the third-party manufacturing issues raised by the FDA’s complete response letter issued in September. They said the […]
David P. Blom is one of thousands of hospital executives across the country who are bracing for a reduction in Medicare payments as part of a series of federal spending cuts that begin Friday. Blom, 58, is president and chief executive officer of ...
As it awaits regulatory nods of approval for its heart defect test, Columbus, Ohio, medical device company CardiOx Corp. is ramping up for commercialization with a $4 million round of financing. Two investors have already committed to the round, which CEO Larry Heaton said will fund the launch of the company’s flagship test in the […]
Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) will manufacture and distribute a radioactive imaging agent from Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) that could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. The imaging agent, called Amyvid, is scheduled for commercial launch on June 1, according to a statement from Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal. Amyvid was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April. […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
A key doctor who was recruited to Ohio State University nearly a decade ago to build the university’s neurosurgery department is leaving for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. E. Antonio Chiocca will start on Aug. 1 as the chair of Brigham and Women’s neurosurgery department. He’d held that position at Ohio State since 2004, a […]
Nonprofit business development group TechColumbus has hired a new CEO from a similar organization in Oklahoma. Tom Walker, who began his career as a research scientist at Battelle, takes the reigns of TechColumbus. TechColumbus had been led by interim CEO Tim Haynes since the group’s former leader and founder, Ted Ford, announced his resignation in […]
A company developing an incisionless, implantable antiobesity medical device has made an early close of $3.1 million on a series B round of investment that’s expected to reach $5 million. Columbus, Ohio-based EndoSphere will use the series B to commercially launch its Satisphere innovative medical device, which received the CE Mark recently. Additionally, EndoSphere plans […]
A company developing a fitness machine designed specifically for use by the disabled has received a $525,000 investment. The funding to Columbus, Ohio-based IncludeFitness comes in the form of debt and was sourced from four investors, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company’s “The Access” exercise machine comes […]
An incisionless, implantable antiobesity medical device from EndoSphere has received the CE Mark, which signifies European regulatory approval. EndoSphere’s device, called the Satisphere, works by slowing the passage of food through the duodenum, the upper part of the smaller intestine that breaks down food. Because food is in contact with the duodenum for a longer […]