Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak speaks with Lifescience Alley CEO Shaye Mandle at LSA2014.
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Mercy hospital pilots FDA’s Unique Device Identifiers
Midwest health system praises the FDA’s Unique Device Identifier program that its been piloting since 2012, crediting the initiative will helping save costs, improve care and boost patient safety.
mHealth: George Takei meets the ‘smartphone physical’
Former Star Trek actor George Takei was in Boston during this year’s AARP Innovation@50+ Health Expo, where he experienced 1st-hand how mHealth devices can change the way physicians conduct physicals.
How Will Bundled Payments Impact Innovation?
This video comes from NEHI’s 2014 Payment Reform Series.
Visit NEHI’s website for more information on their programs.
Behind the World Cup exo-suit
This year’s World Cup was kicked off, literally, by a mind-controlled exoskeleton worn by a man who is paralyzed from the waist down.
Former Medtronic CEO Bill George bullish on Medtronic/Covidien deal
MIT’s artificial intelligence lab boosts baby monitors with heart, breathing rates
MIT’s Networks group demonstrates remote monitoring that can capture breathing patterns and heart rate, even capturing information through walls.
A look at the new FDA-approved home migraine therapy device
eNeura has won FDA clearance since the making of this video.
eNeura’s SpringTMS system is the 1st of its kind to use transcranial magnetic stimulation to depolarize neurons on the brain, a process that doctors believe may interrupt migraine activity. Designed for home use, patients place the device against the back of the head, where a magnetic pulse targets the occipital lobe.
Watch a surgeon paint with Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci robot
Watch Dr. Cristian Thomae, an ob/gyn at Doctors Hospital of Augusta , Ga., demonstrate the use of the da Vinci system made by Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) to create a painting. Hint: Don’t click out before the end!
See Intuitive Surgical’s new da Vinci Xi in action
Watch a video of Intuitive Surgical‘s (NSDQ:ISRG) brand-new da Vinci Xi robot-assisted surgery platform, which won FDA clearance last month.
Warren talks medical device tax with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tells The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart why she supports repealing the medical device tax – even though she voted against its repeal.
In April 2012, as she battled then-Sen. Scott Brown (R) for the Bay State’s junior seat in the Upper Chamber, Warren wrote an exclusive op-ed for MassDevice.com explaining why she thinks the 2.3 excise tax on U.S. sales of medical devices is a bad idea.
Warren told Stewart last month that her stance hasn’t changed.