Can a 3D printing network for VA hospitals realize ambitions for customized prosthetics?
One goal of the network is to improve training and to overcome the challenge of fitting innovative technologies into hospital workflows.
3D printing’s march in healthcare continues
Analysts have predicted that 3D printing will be a major disruptive force in the healthcare industry before the end of the decade.
Using Data to Help Healthcare Practices Succeed
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
What does the prosthetic and medical robotics future look like moving forward? Could be $3.6B by 2025
A new study, from of Lux Research, has indicated that there will be significant growth for prosthetics and therapeutic robotic devices within the next 9 years.
Four unique applications of 3D printing in healthcare
Once reserved primarily for prototyping, the technology has quickly proliferated in the life sciences - with applications that range from personalized surgical implants, scaffolding and tissue generation.
3D printing provides 7-year-old boy with a Stormtrooper prosthetic arm
Liam Porter, a 7-year-old from Augusta, Georgia, got a pretty cool new prosthetic arm thanks to 3D printing – one that other kids might be envious of. It’s a Star Wars inspired Stormtrooper arm. Porter, who was born without part of his left arm, had a traditional prosthetic before, but it wasn’t necessarily functional. “It […]
Smart prosthetic skin can sense pressure, heat and moisture
A team of Korean and American researchers has developed a smart prosthetic skin that can sense pressure, heat and moisture – which could help those with artificial limbs detect if, say, a pot handle’s too hot or about to slip out of their hands. The work was just published in Nature Communications. Here’s a portion of the abstract: Here […]
Improving the Healthcare Financial Experience to Help Care Flow
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
Motion capture technology + mobile app makes fake feet work more like real ones
Phones aren’t the only smart devices any more. One of the health industries that has greatly benefited from mobile technology is prosthetics. Orthocare Innovations has combined a prosthetic foot with Vicon, a motion capture system most commonly known for its use in movies and video games. Orthocare uses it to capture the movements of the […]
New iLimb arms and hands are smarter and more subtle prosthetics
You know how annoying it is in winter when gloves make it hard to use your iPhone? Imagine what it’s like for people with prosthetic hands. Taking off a glove doesn’t solve the problem. Touch Bionics’ iLimb technology is working to solve this small problem as well as larger ones for people with upper limb amputations. Leimkuehler’s […]
Medical device design: Startup with dynamic material to make prosthetics fit better, quicker
Benevolent Technologies for Health (BeTH), a two-year old Boston materials startup, is focusing on medical device design to bring patients with lower limb loss customizable interface for their prosthetics. The company’s material is “jammable,” which basically means it can take on any shape. In the world of prosthetics, that means sockets, liners or inserts to adjust to the […]
Here’s the bionic hand that gave the sense of touch back to an amputee (video)
A bionic hand being developed in Europe is taking prosthesis to the next level by adding the ability to not only grip objects but actually feel them. In a study published in Science Translational Medicine this week, researchers in Italy and Switzerland detail a study in which Dennis Aabo Sorensen, a 36-year-old amputee from Denmark, […]
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What Keeps Healthcare CIOs Up at Night: Balancing Technology Investments with Consumer Expectations
When it comes to managing inbound phone calls, underperformance has devastating cost implications.
Smart design meets affordability in an $80 prosthetic knee for amputees in poor countries
Prosthetic limbs have come a long way in look and functionality (there are even bionic legs)! But, unfortunately, there’s no way some of the people who could benefit most from them could ever afford that kind of advanced technology. A non-profit incubator called D-Rev is focused entirely on designing products for people living on less […]
Medivation, Astellas prostate cancer pill recommended for Britain’s NHS
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's healthcare cost watchdog NICE has recommended that a new prostate cancer pill from Medivation and Astellas should be used on the state health service. The draft guidance is conditional on Xtandi being provided at an undiscl...
California startup to streamline mom-and-pop prosthetic sockets with new medical device technology
LIM Innovations, a California-based healthcare startup that has created an innovative prosthetics socket, aims to close out its first round of funding–$1.5 million–by the end of October. So far the company has raised $450,000 in convertible notes, with more pledged from strategics and undisclosed investors. The company also recently won MedTech Idol, a competition sponsored […]
NEJM: First thought-controlled prosthetic leg
A case study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows the results of the world’s first thought-controlled bionic leg–a prosthetic leg that moves when the wearer thinks about it moving. The U.S. Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center funded the study, which took place at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, to the tune […]
MedTech Idol seeks out new medical device company stars
“It’s American Idol for medtech–no singing,” Paul Grand, managing director at RCT Ventures, said when describing the firm’s MedTech Idol competition. Early-stage medical device companies can apply to compete for direct feedback from venture capitalists, as well as a scholarship to the IN3 Medical Device 360 and a profile in Elsevier‘s magazine. Oh, and though […]