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Cardinal Analytx closes $6.1m Series A funding round

September 27, 2017 By Alex Beall

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 […]

Filed Under: Funding Roundup, Health Information Technology, Software / IT, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: cardinal analytx

Procept BioRobotics treats first patients in Water II test of surgical robot

September 27, 2017 By Alex Beall

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 […]

Filed Under: Biotech, Research & Development, Robotics, Surgical, Urology Tagged With: Procept BioRobotics

Corindus opens first international training center for CorPath GRX System

September 27, 2017 By Alex Beall

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,” […]

Filed Under: Robotics, Structural Heart, Surgical Tagged With: Corindus Vascular Robotics

Qualcomm out-licenses single-use, biometric patch for patient monitoring

September 27, 2017 By Alex Beall

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Hospital Care, Patient Monitoring, Research & Development Tagged With: Benchmarkelectronics, Johnson and Johnson, Qualcomm

Viseon Spine closes $5m Series A round

September 26, 2017 By Alex Beall

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Funding Roundup, Spine, Surgical Tagged With: Viseonspine

Defense Dept. awards DePuy $33m deal for surgical products

September 26, 2017 By Alex Beall

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Surgical Tagged With: defensedepartment, depuysynthes, Johnson and Johnson

GID touts study showing EndoBarrier as good as gastric plication

September 25, 2017 By Alex Beall

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 […]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Endoscopic, Implants, Research & Development Tagged With: GI Dynamics

Elekta inks stereotactic development, software, co-marketing deals

September 25, 2017 By Alex Beall

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. […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Elekta

Intuitive Surgical to integrate GE Healthcare tech in Korea

September 22, 2017 By Alex Beall

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: Intuitive Surgical

New synthetic muscle step forward for soft robotics

September 19, 2017 By Alex Beall

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…

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New synthetic muscle step forward for soft robotics

September 19, 2017 By Alex Beall

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…

Filed Under: Uncategorized

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