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Devices & Diagnostics

Optum’s effectiveness mash-up: Combining United’s 40M claims + 7M hospital records to test devices

SharedClarity has created an alliance of long-time healthcare frenemies (payers and providers) to test effectiveness of heart and orthopedic medical devices with the aim of lowering costs, reducing readmissions, allowing members to negotiate device pricing and getting patients effective implantable devices. For the study, United Healthcare will join forces with Baylor Healthcare System in Dallas, Dignity Health in […]

Devices & Diagnostics

Cook Medical is first to win FDA approval of drug-eluting stent for peripheral artery disease

Cook Medical has received FDA approval for the first drug-eluting stent to treat peripheral artery disease in the U.S. The Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent is a self-expanding metal stent coated with the drug paclitaxel to help prevent recurring narrowing of the artery. Drug-eluting stents are currently approved for use in coronary arteries in heart […]