Hygiei has teamed up with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in order to launch a 12-month study with its d-Nav service created to help about 1,000 diabetic patients more effectively manage their Type 2 diabetes.
The SurgiCount product has been available for years, but Stryker is now standing by its product in a unique and perhaps rarely confident way. The device company is calling it the SurgiCount Promise.
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.
The car maker is exploring ways to use drivers' biometric data from wearables to create a safer driving experience. Its findings could also have an impact on ways to improve remote patient monitoring.
With the help of the Epic Systems EMR at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha discovered that children had far higher lead levels in their blood a year after Flint switched its water supply than a similar group did a year before the change.
The 3D printed device is designed to treat tracheobronchomalacia (TBM), a condition that reportedly affects 1 in 2,220 babies which can cause the airway to spontaneously collapse.
Michigan startup Delphinus Medical Technologies just raised $39.5 million - the largest medtech fundraise in the Midwest - for its whole breast ultrasound device. It's chasing FDA approval after a study next year of 10,000 women with dense breast tissue.
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.
BioStar Ventures invests up to $6 million in early stage medical device startups.
Richard A. Correll, who helped establish and promote the job of the healthcare CIO and who later co-founded the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) will retire June 30 after 42 years in the health IT industry.
Michigan Tech's building bioscaffolding that can help regenerate damaged nerve cells. And it looks like a gummy bear.
Ann Arbor-area startup Gemphire Therapeutics just raised $2.7 million, according to a regulatory filing, for its drug that treats homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. The drug candidate – called gemcabene – is being licensed from Pfizer, according to a December profile from Crain’s Detroit Business. The startup’s led by Mina Sooch, formerly CEO of Michigan’s ProNAi Therapeutics, which raised […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The appetite for health data grows and along with it conversations on people’s comfort level with making that information available. Young people tend to have a pretty passive attitude towards their health data being shared compared with older folks. But for those willing to share it, who are they most likely to trust with it? […]
When Dr. Joyce Lee, a pediatric endocrinologist and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School, talks about the origins of a patient-centered participatory design initiative in the Ann Arbor community, it begins with her son. She temporarily relocated her family to California as part of a sabbatical, and developed a series […]
HTC Global Services, a Michigan-based global IT company, recently acquired CareTech Solutions, also of Michigan, which develops health IT and web products for hospitals and healthcare systems. For HTC Global, the acquisition “is an integral part” of its strategy to tap into the “exponential growth” occurring within the health IT space, according to Madhava Reddy, […]
Healthy Michigan, a statewide health plan launched in April, has already surpassed its original two-year goal, reaching more than 480,000 enrollees in eight months. When the plan launched, it’s goal was 500,000. Today, just north of 481,000 residents have signed up for the program, Gov. Rick Snyder and the state’s Department of Community Health announced. […]
Henry Ford Health System Innovations is partnering with Walgreens on a challenge that is looking for new mobile apps that spur healthy behavior and improve disease management. The partnership represents both increased efforts to engage with patients through means of digital health and the growing influence of retail pharmacies in the healthcare space. The program, […]