Set to spin off from parent company GE (NYSE:GE) next year, GE Healthcare leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help providers improve efficiency, patient outcomes and access to care. The medtech giant’s offerings include AI-based imaging applications and its Edison Health Services platform. As part of the Medical Design & Outsourcing cloud conversation series with medtech […]
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HeartFlow announces new CEO
HeartFlow announced today that John Farquhar has been appointed as the company’s president and CEO, effective today. Farquhar, a former Medtronic executive, was appointed as COO of HeartFlow in August 2021 and has served as the company’s president and a member of the board since Jan. 1, 2022. According to a news release, co-founder and […]
Ascensia launches Senseonics’ remote monitoring app for Android devices in Europe
Ascensia Diabetes Care announced today that it launched Senseonics‘ (NYSE:SENS) Eversense NOW remote monitoring app for Androids in Europe. The launch makes remote monitoring capabilities available for all of Senseonics Eversense and Eversense XL continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) users on Android and iOS operating systems in the U.S. and Europe, respectively. Get the full story at our […]
Pear Therapeutics advances in efforts to get CMS to cover prescription digital therapeutics
Pear Therapeutics (NSDQ:PEAR) announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established new coding relevant to its prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs). CMS established a new Level II Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code to describe prescription digital behavioral therapy — FDA-cleared — per course of treatment, which extends to PDTs including Pear’s reSET, […]
Butterfly Network beats Q4 expectations, projects big losses in 2022
Butterfly Network (NYSE:BFLY) shares dipped today as the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report included projections of large losses in 2022. BFLY shares were down more than 9% at $5.16 per share by later afternoon trading today. MassDevice’s MedTech 100 Index — which includes stocks of the world’s largest medical device companies — was down slightly. The […]
FDA clears AI algorithm from Viz.ai for detecting cerebral aneurysms
Viz.ai announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Viz Aneurysm algorithm for detecting suspected cerebral aneurysms. San Francisco-based Viz.ai’s new algorithm uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect the aneurysms, offering hospital systems a way to ensure that, once detected, the patients are captured and the aneurysm workflow across an entire health system […]
How the cloud tools behind Google Maps and Photos can advance medtech
Alissa Hsu Lynch leads medtech strategy and solutions at Google Cloud, previously serving in executive roles at Johnson & Johnson and Bausch Health. As part of Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s ongoing series of conversations about the cloud’s contributions to the medical device industry and its future, Lynch offered her perspective from the Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary’s […]
Memic Innovative Surgery partners with VirtaMed to develop robotic surgery VR training
VirtaMed and Memic Innovative Surgery announced today that they will work together to develop virtual reality simulations for surgeons training on Memic’s Hominis surgical system. The FDA-authorized Hominis surgical robot features small humanoid-shaped arms that include shoulder, elbow and wrist joints to provide human-level dexterity and 360-degree articulation. The surgical robotics system has an indication […]
GE Healthcare inks partnership deal with Circle Health Group in U.K.
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) announced recently that it signed a 10-year partnership with U.K.-based Circle Health Group. The partnership agreement aims to empower Circle’s clinicians to make faster, more targeted and more informed decisions in diagnosing, treating and monitoring patients through intelligent devices, data analytics and other services. Circle Health and GE Healthcare look to improve […]
Microsoft CMO: Using the cloud to improve medtech design, manufacturing and care
Dr. David Rhew, Microsoft’s global chief medical officer and VP of healthcare, has been studying how technology can improve health outcomes for nearly three decades. His focus has long been on access to care, quality of care, patient safety, improving experiences for patients and providers, and finding ways to improve the overall efficiency of care. […]
Philips is betting big on the cloud; two leaders discuss the connected future
Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHIA) bet big on the cloud in 2021, buying Capsule Technologies for $635 million to integrate Capsule’s medical device integration and data technologies with Philips’ cloud-based digital health platform. The Philips Capsule Medical Device Information Platform (MDIP) can now integrate with more than 1,000 unique types of medical devices, the Dutch medtech […]