An expanding customer base, rapidly advancing technology and intense cost pressures are driving medtech companies to use surgical telepresence to cost effectively meet customer needs, enhance customer relationships, develop new products faster and empower healthcare providers to raise the standard of care. By Daniel Hawkins, Avail Medsystems The medical technology industry is relentlessly challenged to […]
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Avail Medsystems secures telehealth agreement with Premier
Avail Medsystems announced recently that it received a national group purchasing agreement for telehealth with Premier, Inc. Made effective Jan. 1, 2023, the agreement allows Premier members to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for the placement of Avail’s telepresence technology in operating rooms. They can also use Avail to live […]
Medtronic Neurovascular goes remote with Avail Medsystems deal
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) Neurovascular will pay to use hundreds of Avail Medsystems consoles in operating rooms across the country under a first-of-its-kind deal, leaders of both businesses told MassDevice this week. The Medtronic unit will use Avail’s operating room telepresence technology to connect virtually with neurosurgeons and other care providers as they treat stroke patients, Medtronic […]
Avail expands network with 50th medtech contract
Avail announced today that it marked the milestone of adding a 50th medtech organization to its telepresence network. Santa Clara, California-based Avail develops telemedicine equipment that can connect surgeons, interventional specialists and medical device sales reps, creating a set of purpose-built hardware and software that’s exactly the same in every location it’s installed. The company […]
They said it at DeviceTalks Boston
Medtech insiders convened at DeviceTalks Boston 2022 in May to discuss device design, innovation and trends shaping the industry now and in the years and decades ahead. Here are some of the most quotable insights from panelists and speakers at our live event. And make sure to save the date — and save your seat […]
How Avail Medsystems seeks to create a connected OR experience
Much like a normal Starbucks-goer expects the coffee to taste a certain way at any location, Daniel Hawkins wants that type of experience in the operating room. Hawkins is the CEO of Avail Medsystems, a company developing telemedicine equipment that can connect surgeons, interventional specialists and medical device sales reps. Hawkins and the team at […]
How technology is changing the operating room
With all the hype around the use of data, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies, the operating room environment is ever-changing. But, how does it translate to what clinicians do in practice, and how will it improve? On the “How technology is changing the OR” panel at DeviceTalks Boston, Proximie CEO Nadine Hachach-Haram posited that […]
Avail Medsystems hires Varian veteran as president
Telemedicine technology developer Avail Medsystems announced today that it appointed Ryan Magnes as its president. Santa Clara, California-based Avail develops an audio and video telepresence platform designed to offer real-time collaboration through interactive broadcasts of live procedures from the operating room. The company said in a news release that Magnes will report to Founder & […]
Taking the fight to COVID-19 – BD, DHL, Novant on delivering, shipping and administering the vaccine
This week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast shares the stories of the professionals who are working to get the new COVID-19 vaccines into the hands – and arms – of the front-line fighters and people at greatest risk. Leading off, Elizabeth Woody, SVP of public affairs at BD, explains how the company is preparing for the increasing […]
Stryker ortho head Stiles says reps needed in OR now more than ever
While many medical device companies are seeing operating room doors shut in the face of their sales reps as hospitals strive to minimize contact during the pandemic, in this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, Spencer Stiles, group president of Stryker’s orthopaedic and spine groups, said surgeons are telling the ortho giant quite the opposite — that […]
Explorer says AR, AI will improve surgeon-sales rep connections
Explorer Surgical, one of several companies working to established remote connections between surgeons and advisors located outside the operating room, introduced a suite of audio/video functionality that it says will established “unprecedented” levels of communications. The Chicago-based startup says its platform will include augmented reality. According to a release, the HIPAA-compliant system will allow proxies, […]
