Brainsway using MRI-like technology to treat depression
The Israeli startup is helping jolt patients out of depression - commercializing a device stateside that harnesses MRI technology to stimulate deep brain tissue to improve mental illness.
Better breast cancer screening: How innovation is replacing the one-size-fits-all approach
According to The National Breast Cancer Foundation, 98 percent of breast cancer patients survive – if detection occurs early. Since the late 1960s, traditional mammography has been used widely for breast cancer detection. The future of breast cancer care, however, lies in even earlier detection and individually tailored diagnosis and treatment, and imaging manufacturers are […]
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
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.
What does value mean for device industry in era of ACOs? Physician underscores outcomes at real-life bottom line
At a panel on moving from volume to value at Advamed 2013, Dr. Clifford Belden of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center gave an example of exactly what medical device company value means to accountable care organizations. He compared four devices the ACO considered (or is still considering) for purchase in 2013, then said which ones they […]
FDA finally makes final UDI rule: 7 changes medical device manufacturers + physicians should know
The FDA finally made its final unique device identifier rule this week, but the document is thousands of pages long. Jay Crowley, senior adviser of patient safety at the FDA, highlighted seven of the big changes medical device manufacturers should note from last year’s draft to the final. Here they are in laymen’s terms. 1) […]
A boyscout + Worrell work together to design a musical medical device
Eagle Scout Mason Stoltz unveiled a new medical device at Children’s Hospital earlier this week: a music therapy cart. Working with the hospital and Twin Cities industrial design firm Worrell, Stoltz came up with the idea for the carts by watching his sister in the hospital. “She was really sick and she didn’t really want […]
GE company may hold key to first noninvasive treatment for essential tremor
While we all marveled over Medtronic’s latest DBS system, GE-held Insightec (based in Israel) has published results from a pilot study in the NEJM that may validate the Exablate Neuro, a device that combines focused ultrasound surgery with continuous MRI via a “helmet” transducer that shoots out ultrasound elements, stopping the tremors. It’s “noninvasive, incisionless […]
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
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.
FDA approves Medtronic’s neurostimulation implant that can withstand full-body MRI
Medtronic makes history in neurostimulation devices today, receiving FDA-approval for the first implantable spinal cord stimulation systems for use in the treatment of back pain for conditionally safe full-body MRI under specific conditions. Its RestoreSensor® SureScan® MRI neurostimulation systems will allow patients with the implant to undergo an MRI, previously impossible due to the magnetic fields […]