Avive raised $22 million in its recent Series A funding round to further develop its intelligent automated external defibrillator technology and platform that work like Doordash, but for AED delivery and help during cardiac arrest; it is already piloting its program in select cities.
To improve heart attack prevention, there is an urgent unmet need to modernize our approach from late-stage symptom-driven care to direct disease-based care, a care paradigm that addresses heart attack risk in all patients across the entire continuum of heart disease severity.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Apple Watch's entry into the device world garnered a ton of attention and praise, but a good portion of observers have reservations about whether it will truly move the needle in healthcare.
Can using wireless technology, financial incentives and social support improve medication adherence in heart attack survivors? A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine dives in.
Heart-attack patients whose ambulances had been diverted to an ER farther away were nearly 10 percent more likely to be dead one year later than those whose ambulances were not diverted.
TherOx has had a withdrawn IPO, snub from the FDA, but looks like it's rebounding with its promising device that could help salvage damaged heart tissue after a heart attack.
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
CardioCell's in Phase 2a trials with its stem cell therapy for chronic heart failure. Its approach is to infuse stem cells into a patient's system taht stimulate the heart cells into to working again.
A new study is looking at a gene mutation (MYBPC3), which affects up to 8 percent of people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries, with the hope of developing new treatment or prevention strategies. An estimated 55 million people of South Asian descent worldwide, including 200,000 people in the United States, carry […]
InvisionHeart is working on a hardware/software product to make EKG readings shareable between care teams in real-time on a mobile device. It was one of nine startups that participated in Google for Entrepreneurs first demo day Wednesday.
For Marie Johnson, coming up with a better way to detect coronary artery disease is both a business and a personal mission. Johnson is CEO of AUM Cardiovascular, a Minnesota medical device company that’s developing a potentially cheaper, simpler, eight-minute test to detect signs of coronary artery disease — the primary cause of heart attack. […]
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
Reports say that the hardware/software combo, rumored to be spearheaded by a renowned audio engineer from Lucasfilm, would listen to the sound of blood flowing through the wrist.