Cleveland Clinic released its top 10 medical innovations that it predicts to be gamechangers in 2015. During today’s conference, a group of 10 Cleveland Clinic doctors spoke on each disease, outlining why they were, indeed, innovative. Here’s some of the commentary around the much-anticipated Top 10: Given the huge interest in developing a vaccine for Ebola, […]
#MIS2014 Innovation #5 – antibody drug conjugates. Again! Idea around for 30 years, but antibodies better, humanized, understand targets. — Meghana Keshavan (@meghanakeshavan) October 29, 2014 The Cleveland Clinic just announced its top 10 medical innovations for 2015 – a long anticipated and often-prescient listing of the most gamechanging new health techs. This just in: […]
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MedCity News has partnered with BioCrossroads to provide coverage focused on Indiana’s next generation of growth and innovation in life sciences. Only 5.8% of the student population is enrolled in the Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences programs at Purdue University, but healthcare startups make up half of the university’s new Startup Class of 2014. Twelve […]
Eko Devices, a member of Stanford’s accelerator StartX, is moving ahead with a digital accessory for analog stethoscopes to transform them into electronic stethoscopes. The idea is to create a clinical decision support tool with a digital capability without the price tag of an electronic stethoscope. It’s intended to improve the ability to detect nuances […]
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 […]
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
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...
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
“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 […]
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 […]