Current Health announced today that it launched a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop remote monitoring solutions that help identify COVID-19-positive patients. Using Boston-based Current Health’s FDA-cleared remote monitoring sensors and platform, experts from the company and Mayo Clinic can expedite the identification of the coronavirus and improve treatment efficacy and care for patients with […]
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Huennekens out, Azarbarzin in at Verb Surgical | Personnel Moves, July 24, 2019
Veteran medtech executive Scott Huennekens is out as CEO of Verb Surgical, the robot-assisted surgery joint venture between Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and Google parent Alphabet (NSDQ:GOOGL), which today installed Kurt Azarbarzin in the corner office. Azarbarzin, himself a medical device industry longtimer, was co-founder & CEO of SurgiQuest until its 2016 acquisition by ConMed (NSDQ:CNMD), where he was named […]
FDA clears Current Health’s patient monitoring system
Wearable medical device developer Current Health said today it won FDA clearance for its its wireless wearable patient monitor. The Edinburgh, Scotland-based company’s wearable monitor tracks vital signs and is intended to provide extra information to clinicians to allow for earlier interventions. Current touted the device as “the most accurate, all-in-one wireless wearable currently approved […]