Medivis recently raised $20 million in a Series A funding round that included investments from Mayo Clinic, Bob Iger and Kevin Durant. The New York City-based company's technology can be thought of as a “virtual GPS system” for surgeons — it helps them navigate complex anatomical landscapes during operations and gives them a more accurate, intuitive understanding of the anatomy with which they're dealing.
The immersive medical education software company is applying its medical-grade virtual reality platform to train surgeons.
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.
"[Being] the CEO of a publicly traded company is far more stressful than doing cardiac surgery," Qualcomm Life CMO Dr. James Mault said during a Tales from the Trenches event at Matter on March 28.
The Michigan team is pushing its new prescribing guidelines online, in hopes of encouraging other hospitals to adopt similar practices.
Toby Cosgrove's successor is Tomislav Mihaljevic, a cardiothoracic surgeon and the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He will take the reins January 1.
Aphelion Capital led the round for the Chicago-based startup, whose solution focuses on improving communication and coordination in the operating room.
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.
New research finds that the act of disclosure, combined with stress from the procedure gone wrong, can be an anxious experience for some doctors — and more training is needed to help them engage in these difficult conversations.
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It wasn't the story itself or anything about healthfinch that was controversial, though. It was more about the idea of electronic medical records in the first place.
In an investigation published Sunday, The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman could find no specific case of someone being charged with fraud related to neuromonitoring, but payers and regulators are concerned.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The study's conclusions conflict with previous research linking sleep deprivation in doctors to reduced performance. Most earlier studies focused on residents, not on attending physicians.
Some startups you hear from in the beginning, when everything is new and exciting, but then they go radio silent. Either things aren’t going well and the entrepreneurs in charge don’t want to talk about it, or things are going so well that there’s no time for press interviews. Parallax doesn’t have either problem. They […]
According to The Local – Germany’s news in English, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc and the Social Democrats are going to start the new year with a new nanny state effort. The leaders want to ban cosmetic surgery for kids: Jens Spahn, health spokesman for the Christian Democratic Union told the Spiegel magazine: “Youth protection […]
Kyle Samani’s Pristine.io is growing at a fast pace. Samani presented at DEMO earlier this month and won a DEMO God award. The company has raised $350,000 so far and is looking for another $100,000. One pilot project of the Glass software for surgeons has started and another will launch soon. The first pilot was at […]
The standard of care for port site closures in laparoscopic surgery may be changing. Irish medical device startup neoSurgical‘s first commercialized product, neoClose, officially launched this week in the U.S. Today, the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons named the device one of the 2013 Innovations of the Year at the SLS Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Annual Meeting. […]