Healthcare entrepreneur and a former new product development director at Johnson & Johnson Siva Raj is tapping into the smart bike trend with a twist. Revvo wants to focus on newly diagnosed patients with chronic conditions, particularly people with cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes and those at risk for developing these diseases. Raj said […]
A medical device startup to make EKGs more portable and easier to store in electronic health records has raised $1.9 million from 30 investors, according to a Form D filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The funds will be used to support pilot studies for its technology. InvisionHeart is developing both the […]
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.
In the latest clinical wearables acquisition deal by a medical device company, Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) is in talks to acquire Corventis, a wearables technology maker with a focus on cardiovascular devices. Its products are designed for the early detection and treatment of heart problems. The deal was reported by MobiHealthNews. It reflects a broader trend […]
Lifestyle factors, not bad luck, play a central role in atrial fibrillation and its treatment. Exercising too much is just as risky for your heart as too little.
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects about 8 million people in the US alone, according to the American Heart Association, and it can lead to strokes or heart attacks. Diagnosis is often inaccurate and time consuming, and many people who have the problem are asymptomatic. A Doppler Ultrasound and the Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) scale are […]
When America’s joint surgeons were challenged to come up with a list of unnecessary procedures in their field, their selections shared one thing: none significantly impacted their incomes. TheAmerican Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons discouraged&n...
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.
“Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience,” or SAFER Guides, give direction for EHR implementation and safer EHR Management. As of January 2014, healthcare providers can use the SAFER Guides for aid in mitigating problems that could lead to downtime and interfere with the benefits of an EHR. What are SAFER Guides? The SAFER Guides are […]
Considering that one of the big trends in healthcare is keeping people out of the hospital by making greater use of remote monitoring cardiac patients and other patient populations. There’s also been a decent amount of attention around the issue of improving access to defibrillators in public places. So we’ve got iHealth’s wearable ECG monitor, […]
Boston medical device startup Cre8MDI is automating an old technique with the hope of giving doctors another inexpensive tool they could use in-office to help predict, detect and monitor heart disease. The metric Cre8MDI is capturing with its sensor device is arterial stiffness. Over the last decade and a half, a growing body of literature […]
Earlier this month I promised to put together teaching points from the Rich Peverley story. His was an interesting case of sudden collapse that likely occurred as a result of atrial fibrillation therapy rather than atrial fibrillation itself. This was my original report: Important lessons from the collapse of NHL player Rich Peverley (BTW: It set […]
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.
Last night my Twitter stream lit up with the news that NHL player Rich Peverley collapsed from a heart arrhythmia. Fortunately, he was successfully treated, and is reported to be in good condition. Here is a link to the best story I could find. It sounds awfully significant. [Dr.] Salazar said of the treatment, “We […]
How can social media improve AF patient and provider interaction? It was an honor to speak at the seventh annual Western AF symposium this past weekend in Park City Utah. Once in the shadow of the Boston AF symposium, Dr. Nassir Marrouche (@nmarrouche) and his colleagues at the University of Utah have elevated Western AF […]
With the recent heavy marketing of the relatively new novel oral anticoagulants dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban, a new marketing phrase has been born: "non-valvular" atrial fibrillation. What, exactly, is "non-valvular" atrial fibrillation? Is ...
Networks of doctors and hospitals set up under the Affordable Care Act to improve patients’ health and save money for Medicare are having varying rates of success in addressing their patients’ diabetes and heart disease, according to government data released Friday. The release is the first public numbers from Medicare of how patient care is […]
On 29 January 2014, St. Jude Medical issued a “Dear Colleague” letter regarding their review of incident reports on older-model pacemakers (Affinity, Entity, Integrity, Identity, Sustain, Frontier, Victory and Zephyr models) that occasionally dropped their output voltage during surgical electrocautery. (Here’s a publication describing two such cases.) Several issues regarding this advisory letter are troubling. […]