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DTW Podcast: Can Boston Scientific close the gap?

September 26, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Following the killing of George Floyd in June, medtech companies stood strongly against inequality and racism and promised to push for change. Boston Scientific’s executive committee, including CEO Michael Mahoney, issued one of the earliest statements to condemn “injustice and discrimination and to reaffirm our commitment to live by our values and cultivate a workplace […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Women's Health Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Brigham and Women's Hospital, DeviceTalks Weekly, Farapulse, Harvard Medical School, NanoVibronix Inc

How a top research lab pivoted to fight COVID-19

July 28, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

A top medtech research site, the Boston-based Karp Lab has responded to COVID-19 with a virus-fighting nasal spray, better mask straps and much more. COVID-19 completely disrupted the work at Jeff Karp’s medical engineering lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. One company that was planning to do […]

Filed Under: Featured, Materials Testing, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham and Women's Hospital, coronavirus, COVID-19, Massachusetts General Hospital

MIT researchers may have invented a safer way of splitting ventilators

May 27, 2020 By Lee Teschler

MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers say they have a way of splitting ventilators which could address many of the safety concerns — potentially boosting the supply of ventilators amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They have demonstrated their concept’s effectiveness in the lab — but they still caution it should be used only as a last resort […]

Filed Under: Featured, Respiratory Tagged With: Brigham and Women's Hospital, coronavirus, COVID-19, mit

Why adding device identifiers to insurance claims protects patients

May 22, 2017 By Heather Thompson

The pushback to adopting unique device identifier into claims forms is that the added steps will be burdensome for hospitals. But documenting device identifiers in claims forms is actually “feasible” and “straightforward,” and requires only modest effort, according to a new whitepaper from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Of particular concern was that the device claims […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Brigham and Women's Hospital, health insurance, MedTech, UDIs, X12 advisory committee

This ingestible sensor is powered by stomach acid

February 28, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers have announced an ingestible device innovation: a small voltaic cell that can withstand the acidity of fluids in the stomach and still transmit information to a base station. The small device can stay in the gastrointestinal tract for long periods of time and can produce enough power to […]

Filed Under: Biotech, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham and Women's Hospital, ingestible sensor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MedTech

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