The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended bundled pricing for hip and knee replacements for three years. The final rule, published in the Federal Register, extends the “Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement” cost-bundling program through Dec. 21, 2024. The cost-cutting program began in January 2016, when CMS required all hospitals in 67 geographic […]
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Feds to healthcare: Limit reusing masks
The FDA recently told healthcare facilities they can start to limit the decontamination and reuse of disposable masks. An increase in the domestic supply of new masks approved by NIOSH has made the practice less necessary, the agency said. Get the full story on our sister site, Medical Design & Outsourcing.
This device stops aorta blood flow to save lives
Stopping internal bleeding from torso trauma has its technological challenges. Asha Parekh, co-founder and CEO of Front Line Medical Technologies, has developed a small, quick and easy device that could solve the problem. Front Line Medical Technologies (London, Ontario) is an early-stage medical device company that is developing a way to stop internal bleeding with […]
Cardinal Health wins $58M federal PPE contract
Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) today said it was awarded a $57.8 million contract from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services to support the Strategic National Stockpile. The Dublin, Ohio-based company received the contract, which includes options that if exercised by the HHS could reach $91.6 million, to store and distribute 80,000 pallets of personal […]
Zimmer Biomet launches new suite of digital and robotic technologies
Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) announced today that it launched the ZBEdge connected intelligence suite of digital and robotic technologies. Warsaw, Ind.–based Zimmer Biomet’s ZBEdge technologies, both currently available and soon to be launched, include the Rosa robotic surgery platform, anatomical visualization and guidance systems such as the Signature One, the iAssist knee alignment system, and optical […]
3M, others may have unmasked a solution to future N95 shortages
A handful of companies including 3M are working to ensure that a scramble for disposable masks never happens again. The face of the next pandemic could be very different than that of COVID-19, thanks to a handful of companies that have redesigned reusable industrial face masks to better protect healthcare workers and help prevent mask […]
8 medical device companies that beat the COVID-19 pandemic and prospered
Some medical device businesses not only survived the COVID-19 pandemic but actually thrived — with many producing the medtech needed to fight the coronavirus’s spread. Medical Design & Outsourcing recently analyzed financials for 20 of the largest medical device businesses in the world. Not only was revenue only slightly down for the 20 during 2020, but it was […]
Racial disparities remain despite increased mechanical clot removal in stroke patients
Data presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2021 shows that racial disparities persist in stroke treatment. According to a news release, mechanical removal of blood clots causing a stroke is increasing, but there remain racial differences in the treatment, a study shows. Get the full story at our sister site, Medical Design […]
Philips and Disney want to make MRIs easier for children: Here’s how
Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG) announced today that it is teaming up with Disney to test the effects of custom-made animation to create a relaxing atmosphere for young patients. Amsterdam-based Philips will collaborate with The Walt Disney Company EMEA to see how the animation, including specially-made Disney stories within Philips’ Ambient Experience, creates a relaxing atmosphere to improve […]
Ambu single-use endoscope wins Frost & Sullivan innovation award
Frost & Sullivan today announced that it awarded Ambu with a 2021 Global New Product Innovation Award. Ambu received the award for its single-use flexible endoscopes that are designed to make the devices safe, affordable and accessible. It has aView and aBox all-in-one video displays that eliminate the traditional video endoscopy tower size and expense to be […]
The top 7 medtech CEO quotes on COVID-19, one year later
The latest earnings season has provided insights into the future of medtech in the COVID-19 landscape and what certain sectors are seeing as vaccines start to roll out. Since the start of the pandemic, 113.1 million COVID-19 cases have been reported worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The U.S. leads the world […]
