As part of a new report, KLAS interviewed providers about their adoption of sepsis solutions. KLAS found more and more providers seeking sepsis tools from EHR vendors like Cerner and Epic.
Sepsis is a difficult condition to accurately diagnose once symptoms appear. For this reason, Spectral Medical is taking recent funding to further development of its devices designed to detect endotoxin in the bloodstream.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
England's top health official on Tuesday publicly apologized on behalf of the National Health Service in the December 2014 death of 1-year-old William Mead.
Mercy Virtual, the telehealth division of Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy Health System, is putting the finishing touches on what it calls the world’s first virtual care center, ahead of the planned June 1 opening. The $50 million, 120,000-square-foot facility will serve as the nerve center for all of Mercy's nearly 80 telehealth programs, including what is being called the largest single-hub eICU in America.
Seattle diagnostics company Immunexpress is working to whittle sepsis screening time down to an hour – and is in the midst of a $40 million Series C to do so, CEO Roz Brandon says. Its approach is to measure a patient’s septic immune response – parting ways with the current norm of seeking out sepsis-causing pathogens in […]
It’s well known that sepsis is among the most vexing and persistent conditions, costing the system as whole upwards of $20 billion – the single most expensive condition in hospitals– and causing an estimated 750,000 annual deaths just in the U.S. As a means of combating the condition, research giant Wolters Kluwer Health has launched new […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Wisconsin startup Isomark has developed a breath-based test that can detect infection within two hours of its onset. The patented concept has wide-reaching applications – for instance, it’s proposed developing a smart neonatal incubator that’s constantly checking a preemie’s breath for signs of sepsis. The company has received $2.2 million now in NIH-backed SBIR grants; the […]
On any given day, about one in every 25 hospital patients acquires an infection. Preventing those infections is ideal, but hospitals don’t seem to be doing a great job of that. The next best thing is detecting and treating them as early as possible. “Everything that’s being used right now (for detection) uses either vital […]
Analytical techniques used to spot missiles traveling at the speed of sound may be able to help clinicians identify cases of sepsis in hospitals. Security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) worked with experts in the medical field to apply its signal processing and data analytics technology to diagnostic tools. The company has developed […]
DARPA awarded Battelle, NxStage Medical and Aethlon Medical a contract to develop a device to treat sepsis, which can arise from as much as 10 percent of combat wounds, for military use, according to a Battelle press release. The contract, which could lead to $22.8 million dollars and four years worth of work for the […]
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