A proposed merger between Atrium Health and WakeMed Health is facing an early delay, with county commissioners having postponed a key vote over transparency concerns. State officials are warning the deal could hurt competition and drive up healthcare costs in the Raleigh area.
Allogeneic cell therapy hasn’t caught up to autologous cell therapy yet, and the disappointing data so far has soured the entire allogeneic field for at least one venture capitalist. The cell therapy debate was one of the topics covered during a panel discussion at the Biopharm America conference.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
The contract research organization's announcement came as clinical trial sites anticipate significant disruption due to the pandemic, while the FDA has issued guidelines for running trials virtually.
Through the funding round, which was led by Dioko Ventures, the health tech startup, Feedtrail, intends to hire sales and marketing employees and scale its platform.
About 78 percent of survey participants achieved positive ROI from mobile app investments, according to the survey by open source software developer Red Hat.
Instead of a per user, per month fee that rival companies tend to charge, MD Interconnect charges a flat fee and annual maintenance fee roughly correlated to the size of the hospital.
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
Healthcare dignity for sale.
Valencell, a biosensor developer seeking to make weareables more accurate, has raised a mix of equity and debt. The fundraise comes several months after securing approval for patent applications earlier this year.
Pending FDA approval, women could soon have their own drug designed to increase sexual desire.
If there’s a counter argument for that University of Pennsylvania study suggesting there’s little difference between the accuracy of smartphone fitness apps and fitness wearables to track steps, Steve LeBoeuf would be the one to make it. He’s the president of Valencell, a company that develops and licenses its PerformTech technology that powers several wearable […]
A health IT company that has developed a cloud-based logistics tool to delivery physicians to patients' homes is raising $1.75 million.
A portable device for ambulances could someday soon make it easier and quicker for emergency responders to treat cardiac arrest and stroke victims with therapeutic hypothermia. Novocor Medical Systems Inc. is developing HypoCore, a device that’s designed to quickly cool saline as it’s administered to patients to induce therapeutic hypothermia. In cardiac arrest patients, therapeutic […]
Sprout Pharmaceuticals’ quest to get approval for what would be the first drug to treat sexual dysfunction in premenopausal women made a big step today. It has resubmitted its NDA to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a statement, resetting the path for the drug when it was under development at Boehringer Ingelheim. […]
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A team at North Carolina State University’s College of Textiles is asking patients to help them solve a long-standing problem: embarrassing hospital gowns. Anyone who has been a hospital patient knows the uneasy, drafty feeling the unisex garment that “ties” loosely in the back. The “johnny gown” endures largely because it fulfills the hospital need […]