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Google opening office near Mayo Clinic

February 18, 2021 By Chris Newmarker Leave a Comment

Google announced today that it will open an office in downtown Rochester, Minn., to be close to Mayo Clinic. The tech giant plans to have an office up and running with a handful of workers as soon as possible, given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a news release posted on the website of the […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Featured, Health Technology, Software / IT Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), Google, Mayo Clinic

Hologic and Google Cloud team up on digital diagnostics for cervical cancer

February 2, 2021 By Brian Buntz

Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) has entered into a multi-year deal to use Google Cloud’s machine learning and deep learning technologies with its Genius digital diagnostics system, a cytology platform that uses volumetric imaging data to identify precancerous lesions and cancer cells of the cervix. The machine learning and deep learning capabilities from Google Cloud will enable Hologic […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Digital Health, Featured, Gynecological, Health Technology, Software / IT, Women's Health Tagged With: AI, Alphabet (Google), artificial intelligence, cervical cancer, deep learning, Hologic, machine learning

Philips, Google, ResMed among companies joining digital therapeutics standards initiative

August 26, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Major companies in the medtech space — including Philips, Google and ResMed — are among those joining the Consumer Technology Association’s new digital therapeutics standards initiative. “With the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing faster innovation across all aspects of digital health including digital therapeutics,” said Gary Shapiro, CEO of the CTA. “This field takes the […]

Filed Under: Digital Health, Featured, Health Technology, Software / IT Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), Consumer Technology Association, Philips, ResMed, ResMed Inc.

Why FDA put the pedal to the metal for radar and hummingbirds and why medtech needs Google

June 26, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, co-hosts Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi dig into the recent successes by startups Circadia Health and Preceptis Medical, which both saw expedited approval from the FDA due to the pandemic. Circadia Health earned a spot on this year’s “20 medical device startups you need to know” list. Circadia […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Diagnostics, Featured, Otolaryngology/Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT), Patient Monitoring Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), Circadia Health, COVID-19, DeviceTalks Weekly, Perceptis Medical

CEO Ryan explains how Cala Health is building bioelectronic medicine business

June 12, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Tom Salemi, editorial director of DeviceTalks events and content, visits with Renee Ryan, the CEO of neuromodulation startup Cala Health. Ryan came to Cala from the venerable medtech investor Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., where she made over 15 investments helping to create companies including Auris Surgical, Cala […]

Filed Under: Bioelectronic Medicine, Device Talks Podcasts, Neurological Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), Cala Health, Johnson and Johnson, Verb Surgical

Study: PPE shortages persist nationwide

May 15, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Shortages of personal protective equipment continue to plague hospitals and healthcare facilities across the United States, according to a study published this week in The Lancet. The study reports on data collected by GetUsPPE, a volunteer organization connecting healthcare providers with supplies of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic and was authored by academics and volunteers […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Distribution, Featured, Hospital Care, Research & Development Tagged With: Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Alphabet (Google), coronavirus, COVID-19, GetUsPPE, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pymetrics

3M sues Florida company for alleged mask price-gouging

April 15, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

3M (NYSE:MMM) has sued a Florida company for allegedly trying to sell tens of millions of the company’s N95 respirators to the federal government at inflated prices. The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida alleges that Orlando-based Geftico LLC twice attempted to fraudulently sell the “likely nonexistent” respirators at […]

Filed Under: Featured, Legal News, Respiratory Tagged With: 3m, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, coronavirus, COVID-19, Facebook

LivaNova adds Verily to depression study

February 27, 2020 By Sean Whooley

LivaNova (NSDQ:LIVN) announced that it has added Google’s (NSDQ:GOOGL) Verily to its study of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy for difficult-to-treat depression (DTD). The Recover clinical will gather quantitative data on patient behavior using Verily’s technology and analytics. The data could help the researchers understand depressive episodes and the patient’s response to treatment. Study participants will […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Clinical Trials, Health Technology, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Software / IT Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), LivaNova, Verily

Verily, Santen do a JV for ophthalmological devices

February 6, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Santen Pharmaceutical (OTC:SNPHY) and Verily, an Alphabet (NSDQ:GOOGL) company, announced that they are entering into a joint venture to focus on applying microelectronics and scalable digital technologies to ophthalmology. Osaka, Japan-based Santen and San Francisco-based Verily say they want to improve eye health globally. According to a news release, the joint venture is slated to combine […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Mergers & Acquisitions, Optical/Ophthalmic Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), Santen Pharmaceuticals, Verily

New 510(k) boosts iRhythm, Verily efforts for AFib screening

January 24, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

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 […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Clinical Trials, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Featured, Regulatory/Compliance, Software / IT Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), artificial intelligence, iRhythm Technologies Inc., Verily

FDA clears Verily Study Watch for additional capabilities

January 22, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

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 […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Clinical Trials, Digital Health, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Patient Monitoring, Pharmaceutical, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Alphabet (Google), Novartis, Otsuka Holdings, Pfizer, Sanofi, Verily

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