New machine learning company Cardinal Analytx closed a $6.1 million Series A financing round to fund the development of its healthcare technology with data science, engineering and clinical capabilities. Investors included Cardinal Partners, Premera Blue Cross and the Stanford-StartX Fund. To reduce the costs associated with health insurance, the company developed a machine learning platform […]
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Procept BioRobotics treats first patients in Water II test of surgical robot
Procept BioRobotics announced today that the first patients were treated in its Water II Study, a clinical trial testing the safety and efficacy of Aquablation delivery by its surgical robotic AquaBeam System to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia. The trials test the use of the system in prostates 80 to150 mL and will enroll 100 patients […]
Corindus opens first international training center for CorPath GRX System
Corindus Vasular Robotics opened its first international CorPath GRX Robotic Center in Tokyo to educate cardiologists on robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary interventions, the company announced today. “The opening of the first international robotic center represents an important milestone in the process of bringing precision vascular robotics to patients and physicians in Japan and around the world,” […]
Qualcomm out-licenses single-use, biometric patch for patient monitoring
Qualcomm subsidiary Qualcomm Life announced today the development of one-time use biometric patches designed for patient monitoring. The patch is designed to provide healthcare professionals with real-time patient monitoring data, making the patch applicable for a range of care purposes like perioperative care and assessing the effects of therapeutic interventions. The device can measure a […]
Viseon Spine closes $5m Series A round
New medical device company Viseon Spine closed its $5.0 million Series-A financing to fund product development, regulatory approvals, clinical evaluations and manufacturing and commercialization efforts, the company announced today. HBM-MedFocus, Invus Opportunities Fund and affiliates of Wexford Capital LP led the financing round. “We are very pleased to have the support from our investment partners […]
Defense Dept. awards DePuy $33m deal for surgical products
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary DePuy Synthes secured a $32,994,565 contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for medical surgical products last week. The nine-month contract comes with eight one-year and one 15-month option periods. The customers include the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. Earlier this month, DePuy launched […]
GID touts study showing EndoBarrier as good as gastric plication
New data from the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medications found that gastric plication and GI Dynamics’ EndoBarrier device therapy showed similar outcomes for patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity. “On a basic science and mechanistic basis, both treatments (GP and EndoBarrier) substantially improved metabolic parameters and were associated with reduction in systemic inflammation […]
Elekta inks stereotactic development, software, co-marketing deals
Medical software and equipment company Elekta has signed separate deals with Ion Beam Applications and Brainlab to share and integrate their technologies. In the memorandum of understanding with Ion Beam Applications, the two companies agreed to collaborate on investment in software development and the sale and marketing of each other’s products through a joint portfolio. […]
Intuitive Surgical to integrate GE Healthcare tech in Korea
Intuitive Surgical Korea signed a memorandum of understanding with GE Healthcare Korea aimed at improving the clinical applications of robotic-assisted surgery. Under the agreement, GE Healthcare Korea will provide its CS600 anesthesia machine, which supports multiple ventilation modes tailored to patients, and its patient monitoring technologies as well as needed training and services assistance to Intuitive […]
New synthetic muscle step forward for soft robotics
A research team from Columbia Engineering’s Creative Machines lab developed a synthetic soft muscle that has a strain density 15 times larger than natural muscle and can lift 1,000 times its own weight that could propel soft robotics creation forward. According to the study “Soft Material for Soft Actuators” published in Nature Communications, the material…
New synthetic muscle step forward for soft robotics
A research team from Columbia Engineering’s Creative Machines lab developed a synthetic soft muscle that has a strain density 15 times larger than natural muscle and can lift 1,000 times its own weight that could propel soft robotics creation forward. According to the study “Soft Material for Soft Actuators” published in Nature Communications, the material…
