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How Baptist Health System made Obamacare work

To understand how the health law is supposed to fix the mediocre, overpriced, absurd medical system, you could read wonky research papers on bundled payments and accountable care organizations. Or you could look at what’s going on at Baptist Health System in San Antonio. Under the potent lure of profit, doctors, nurses and managers at […]

Orlando Portale will head AirStrip’s innovation advisory board

If you're going to have an innovation advisory board for a mobile health company, it helps to have someone who is very familiar with the product and also a big proponent of developing new applications for mobile health technology. Orlando Portale, the CIO for Palomar Health, is well positioned to head up Airstrip's newly formed board and help it advance its technology platform.

Devices & Diagnostics

Texas medical device company scores FDA nod for hammertoe fixation system

San Antonio, Texas-based BioMedical Enterprises received FDA clearance for its HammerLock Nitinol Intramedullary Fixation System upgrade. The system’s original innovation? No wires. The upgrade has a linear body that allows more bone fusion at the joint, which according to a company statement, offers “enhanced flexibility in positioning and easier reduction.” The implant is made of Nitinol, a […]

Devices & Diagnostics

Missouri startup raises near $1M to commercialize novel collagen scaffold for soft tissue therapeutic applications

Dermelle, LLC (aka EternoGen, LLC), a Columbia, Missouri-based startup that works with collagen scaffolds for soft tissue therapeutic applications, has raised $920,427 to close its series A funding. This money will pay for the “full spectrum of safety tests” and pilot human studies to position the company for a regulatory clinical study in Europe and […]