Amidst an increase in mental health patients, some healthcare organizations are leveraging technology solutions built for an entirely different purpose in new ways to support their mental health patients.
Before the pandemic started, the U.S. Department of Defense and Philips designed a system to detect potential infections before symptoms appear. Now, they’re turning it on the Covid-19 pandemic.
Executives from Imagine360, Verily, BrightInsight, Lantern, and Rhapsody shared their approaches to reducing healthcare costs and facilitating digital transformation.
Philips signed an agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for a real-time patient monitoring application called Batdok, which it will start offering to government and civilian clients.
Results show “a bit of disagreement between patients and healthcare providers,” said Dr. Jan Kimpen, chief medical officer of Philips Healthcare.
There are celebrity endorsers, and then there is Betty White.
Royal Philips and MIT announced an initiative that will allow healthcare researchers to access data on more than 100,000 patients, which has been collected by Phillips through its Hospital to Home eICU telehealth program. For researches, data sets are often limited to insurance claims data, which offers a summary of patient’s stay at a hospitals. […]
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
When Medtronic announced its acquisition of Cardiocom earlier this week, it was a big (and loud) move in shaping the company’s “now we’re a healthcare service provider” strategy. But Cardiocom only makes $40 to $50 million in revenue, relatively small potatoes for a titan like Medtronic. What does this announcement mean, really, then? “The importance […]
Sectra (OMX:SECTB) announced that it sold its MicroDose mammography sector to Royal Philips Healthcare (NYSE:PHG) this week. Philips paid $82 million in cash up front, and the agreement includes room for $18 million more pending specially agreed terms and conditions. About 110 Sectra employees are expected to transfer with the business. “This is an excellent […]
Masimo Corp. (NDSQ:MASI) announced today that it reached a long-term non-exclusive agreement to integrate its rainbow SET technology into Philips Healthcare’s products. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. This could be a positive step for both companies, which have had some tough news recently. Philips recalled its infant breathing lines last month after […]
Philips Healthcare‘s computed tomography and nuclear medicine headquarters in suburban Cleveland has received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, primarily over quality control and record-keeping issues. The FDA listed 15 specific violations uncovered during inspections of Philips’s imaging center in Highland Heights, Ohio last year. For example, the company failed to […]
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Most people in Ohio's biomedical industry would've considered 2010 a good year if just one key thing happened -- voters renewed the state's $1.35 billion, 10-year Third Frontier program, which is designed to energize Ohio’s economy by investing in cutting-edge technology. It happened and heads up MedCity News' list of the biggest highlights of the year for Ohio's biomedical industry.
As the history of social legislation suggests -- and as this week's federal court ruling on the so-called individual mandate makes clear, the effects of healthcare reform on our politics may not be settled until a lot of President Obama's aides are collecting Medicare checks, according to the New York Times.
The Food & Drug Administration today announced a program for improving the safety and efficacy of automated external defibrillators. The federal watchdog agency said it’s received 28,000 reports of AED failures in the last five years, yet 300,000 Americans could benefit from treatment from the devices every year. AEDs are designed to treat cardiac arrest […]
Sales for Philips Healthcare during the three months ended Sept. 30 were about $321 million higher than the $2.35 billion in global sales reported for Q3 2009. The Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) division recorded $2.67 billion in third-quarter revenues, a 13.6 percent increase. Earnings before interest, taxes and amortization for the North Andover, Massachusetts-based division […]
This fall, BioOhio will hold its Annual Conference in three regions on three different dates. “Innovation Road Show” will visit northeast Ohio on September 28, central Ohio on October 28, and southwest Ohio on November 17. At all three sites, the emphasis will be on biomedical innovation — defining it, discussing it, debating it, and understanding how essential it is from R&D through commercialization to market. Ample networking time will be available for Ohio’s bioscience innovators to share ideas and initiate collaborations.