The latest 510(k) clearance for the Verily Study Watch will further the efforts of the Google sister company and iRhythm Technologies (NSDQ:IRTC) to improve atrial fibrillation treatment. Verily — a life science company under Alphabet (NSDQ:GOOGL) — recently received an FDA 510(k) clearance to include an irregular pulse monitor in its Study Watch wearable. “We’ve worked carefully […]
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FDA clears Verily Study Watch for additional capabilities
Verily, Google’s life science’s sister company under Alphabet (NSDQ:GOOGL), has received an FDA 510(k) clearance to include an irregular pulse monitor in its Study Watch wearable. The FDA announcement, last updated Jan. 20, did not include additional information. The agency cleared ECG capabilities on the Study Watch in January 2019. Launched in April 2017, the Study […]
Mojo Vision developing ‘smart’ contact lens
Mojo Vision is working with the FDA to develop a smart contact lens to help people with low vision. The lens overlays real-time contrast and lighting enhancements with zoom functionality and recently won FDA breakthrough device designation. “Receiving the Breakthrough Device Designation is a significant step in our research and development process. We look forward […]
Proteus pivots, hands digital mental health adherence business to Otsuka
Proteus Digital Health is abandoning its mental illness and cardiovascular work in its digital pill technology after its deal with Otsuka Pharmaceutical (TYO:4578) ended prematurely and will start to focus more on therapeutic areas, STAT News reports. Otsuka Pharmaceutical had been paying Proteus to develop a portfolio of digital medicines for serious mental health conditions. […]
Verily hires former Tesla executive as CFO
Verily — Google’s life sciences sister company under Alphabet (NSDQ:GOOG) — has hired Tesla veteran Deepak Ahuja as its CFO, according to a report on CNBC. Ahuja previously served two stints as CFO at Tesla. He left Tesla in early 2019 and was serving as a senior advisor to Capricorn Investment Group, according to his LinkedIn […]
Preventice taps Medtronic exec as new CCO
Preventice Solutions announced today that it appointed former Medtronic executive Tom Sheehy as its new executive vice president and chief commercial officer, effective immediately. Sheehy previously served as a senior area sales director for the diagnostics and coronary sales team at medtech giant Medtronic (NYSE:MDT). He also held a national sales leadership role, integrating TYRX antibiotic […]
The 10 greatest medtech advances of the 2010s
From disposable endoscopes to TAVR to robotic surgery, there’s a whole host of medtech advances widely available now that weren’t around much 10 years ago. “In terms of technological advances, I would put this past decade as one of the most important for medical technology. From connected devices and robotics, to advances in material sciences […]
Senior-monitoring company Somatix raises $4.5m
Somatix (New York) — a four-year-old company with a monitoring system that spots problems in seniors via their gestures — has raised $4.5 million. The SEC Form D, files yesterday, listed nine investors in the offering. The company’s SafeBeing remote monitoring system passively tracks walking, sleeping, drinking, medication intake and more. The monitoring enables the […]
NeuroMetrix CEO cuts his salary to $1
Dr. Shai N. Gozani, CEO of pain-treating TENS device company NeuroMetrix (NSDQ:NURO), is cutting his annual salary to $1 from a previous $422,200 — accepting a stock option to purchase 100,000 shares instead. The 2020 executive compensation package, approved Dec. 29 by the company board’s compensation committee, also cuts salaries in return for stock options for […]
Report: Mayo Clinic to try Corindus telestenting
Mayo Clinic researchers this spring plan to try out Corindus’ telestenting technology — which Mayo officials think could improve care in the rural hospitals in their network, according to a report in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. Corindus told MassDevice‘s sister site Medical Design & Outsourcing in 2018 that the company had a partnership with […]
DarioHealth closes $21.3m private placement
DarioHealth (NSDQ:DRIO) announced that it closed a private placement of convertible preferred stock to institutional and private investors for proceeds of more than $21 million. Israel-based DarioHealth said the $21.3 million in funds is earmarked for the company’s strategic plan. The plan sets out to accelerate business-to-business initiatives and support direct-to-consumer sales and marketing initiative. Specifically, […]