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Amazon offers to help Biden administration with vaccine distribution

January 21, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) issued a letter to recently inaugurated President Joe Biden offering assistance with COVID-19 vaccine distribution. President Biden, who was sworn into office yesterday, was addressed in the letter from Amazon announcing its availability to help with his intent to distribute 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office. Get the full story […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Amazon, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Joe Biden

Boston Scientific to acquire Preventice Solutions

January 21, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) announced today that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Preventice Solutions. Minneapolis-based Preventice designs mobile health solutions and remote monitoring services for patients with cardiac arrhythmias. Its wearables include the PatientCare platform and BodyGuardian family of monitors. Preventice’s BodyGuardian monitors use a fully-integrated, cloud-based platform for clinical technicians and AI algorithms […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Diagnostics, Featured, Health Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Software / IT Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Preventice

EmblemHealth to provide coverage for Senseonics’ Eversense CGM

January 20, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) announced that EmblemHealth is now providing coverage for its Eversense continuous glucose monitoring system. Germantown, Md.-based Senseonics said in a news release that the immediately effective decision adds to the number of payers writing the Eversense system into their CGM coverage policies and paying for the healthcare provider’s time for the in-office sensor placement. […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: Senseonics

Abbott’s MitraClip receives boost as CMS expands coverage for TMVR

January 20, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Abbott (NYSE:ABT) announced today that CMS revised its coverage for TMVR, opening up new possibilities for its MitraClip device. The CMS National Coverage Determination (NCD) expands coverage for transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) to include patients with secondary (or functional) mitral regurgitation (MR) resulting from heart failure. According to an Abbott news release, the CMS decision […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, Medicare, Replacement Heart Valves, Structural Heart Tagged With: Abbott, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), TMVR

Haemonetics to acquire Cardiva

January 20, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Haemonetics (NYSE:HAE) announced today that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cardiva Medical for $475 million. Boston-based Haemonetics’ agreement includes an upfront cash payment of $475 million at closing, along with up to an additional $35 million in contingent consideration based on sales growth, according to a news release. The acquisition is subject to […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Mergers & Acquisitions, Vascular Tagged With: Cardiva Medical Inc., Haemonetics

DePuy Synthes lands FDA clearance for Velys robotic knee system

January 20, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) unit DePuy Synthes announced that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Velys system. Velys is a robotic-assisted system designed for use with the Attune total knee system and its cleared indications for use and it will become part of the broader Velys digital surgery platform of connected technologies, according to a news […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Regulatory/Compliance, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: DePuy Synthes, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson and Johnson, robot-assisted, Robotic Surgery

DJO acquires Trilliant Surgical and its foot and ankle implants

January 20, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

DJO announced that it acquired orthopedic foot and ankle implant maker Trilliant Surgical for an undisclosed amount. Dallas-based Colfax (NYSE:CFX) unit DJO’s acquisition is meant to support its focus on expansion into the high-growth U.S. foot and ankle market, which the company touts as a $1 billion market, according to a news release. Trilliant’s product portfolio […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Implants, Mergers & Acquisitions, Orthopedics Tagged With: Colfax Corp., DJO Global, trilliantsurgical

GE Healthcare reportedly lays off 140 in Wisconsin

January 20, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) has reportedly laid off 140 employees at its Madison, Wis. facility due to decreased demand for certain products. The Wisconsin State Journal reported that union representatives confirmed that layoffs came after the need for new ventilators and anesthesia machines has decreased. Demand for such devices had been high over the past year as […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Featured, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, GE Healthcare

NIH increases PhysIQ contract to $6.6M

January 19, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

PhysIQ announced today that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) entered into Phase II of a contract for its AI-based COVID-19 biomarker. A Purdue University-affiliated artificial intelligence company, PhysIQ’s AI-based COVID-19 digital biomarker is being developed to address the rapid decompensation of high-risk COVID-19 patients, according to a news release. PhysIQ’s technology’s cloud platform continuously […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Clinical Trials, Featured, Funding Roundup, Health Technology, Patient Monitoring, Software / IT Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, national cancer institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), physiq

Senseonics announces $50M from stock offering

January 19, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) announced that it entered into securities purchase agreements worth gross proceeds of approximately $50 million. Germantown, Md.-based Senseonics’ purchase agreements are with several healthcare-focused investors, as well as other institutional investors, according to a news release. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News.

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Funding Roundup, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: Senseonics

TransEnterix receives CE Mark for AI for its robotic surgery system

January 19, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

TransEnterix (NYSE:TRXC) announced today that it received CE Mark approval for its Intelligent Surgical Unit for the Senhance system. The Intelligent Surgical Unit (ISU) enables machine vision capabilities on the Senhance surgical system, providing Senhance digital laparoscopic programs in Europe augmented intelligence capabilities in surgical settings, according to a news release. The FDA cleared the ISU […]

Filed Under: Digital Health, Featured, Health Technology, Imaging, Regulatory/Compliance, Software / IT, Surgical Tagged With: CE Mark, TransEnterix

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