At Health Datapalooza this week, Dr. Rasu Shrestha, the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said: "In the next one, two, three, four years, we’re going to really see all of the disruption coming, and we’re seeing that, not just in the talk that we’re propagating."
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Medrobotic's Flex Robotic System is designed to give physicians the ability to access anatomical locations that were previously difficult or impossible to reach in a minimally invasive way.
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Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
A new report cataloging over 10,000 incident reports to the FDA found that robot surgeons were involved in 144 patient deaths and 1,391 patient injuries.
SoftBank Robotics, Alibaba Group and Foxconn Technology Group will collaborate to bring humanoid robots to the global market, Botox owner Allergan, has agreed to pay $2.1 billion for Kythera and its double chin eliminator treatment.
Robots are poised to take over the healthcare world in a way, Dr. Steven Wartman, president and CEO of the Association of Academic Health Centers, said at the Cleveland Clinic's sixth-annual Patient Experience: Empathy + Innovation Summit. He spoke about what he called the "marriage of medicine and machine" and examined the implications for patients and healthcare professionals.
The Open Worm Project has brought together scientists and programmers from around the world hoping to recreating the behavior of the common roundworm (Caenorhabditis elegans) in a machine – and progress has been made that could eventually lead to some pretty incredible breakthroughs. The project has had its first major success recently by creating software […]
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Bay Area-based Ekso Bionics has developed a wearable bionic suit that’s meant to give those with mobility problems a little more spring in their step: Its exoskeleton, approved by the FDA, is meant to help the paralyzed or semi-paralyzed “walk” with a typical gait. The publicly traded company has been developing robotic exoskeletons, or “wearable robots,” as it […]
When I went to see Disney’s latest movie, I wasn’t expecting the hero to be a robot doctor. “Big Hero 6” is an amazing and wonderful movie, just like “Wreck-It Ralph,” another recent movie from Walt Disney Animation Studios. But unlike that video game movie, this one gives us a look at what healthcare may […]
A company that’s created the first robot-assisted flexible endoscopic platform for surgery has raised a nice lump sum – Massachusetts devicemaker Medrobotics has raised $20 million. The dollars will be used to pursue commercial launches across Europe, and pursue the nebulous waters of U.S. regulatory approval. The company’s endoscope is meant to enable minimally invasive […]
Two 24-inch-tall, interactive robots were the source of entertainment for 3 autistic children at the River Street School in Windsor, Conn. recently, and it looks like this kind of technology could be a unique source of treatment to help improve students social, sensory and cognitive skills. The robots are programmed with more than 50 applications, including […]
Twitter is something else. I signed up to Twitter a few years back, but never really did anything with it – mainly because I didn’t really understand how to leverage it to the fullest. Fast forward to roughly a month ago and I’m a tweeting – bordering addicted – fiend. If (the optimist in me […]