Demand is increasing for at-home digital health systems, where sensors follow people’s health data and automatically turn them into real-time insights for themselves and their health providers. From ResMed and its connected CPAP technology to Clarify Medical getting user feedback for its light therapy system for skin conditions, medical device companies have started to score […]
What is the future of medtech in 2019?
A global push to increase medical device industry regulation and the continued blurring of high tech and medtech – those are but some of the predictions that Medical Design & Outsourcing editors are hearing from experts. Read on to discover some of the top predictions of where the industry is going in 2019. Next>> Senior […]
Senators question basis for FDA’s digital health pre-cert pilot
Three Democratic senators representing major high tech and medtech hubs in the United States are questioning the statutory basis of FDA’s new pilot program for digital health product precertification. “We support FDA’s efforts to update the medical device review regime to better accommodate digital health devices and believe that it is an important step in ensuring that […]
7 medtech ideas out of Europe
Mobile and digital health ideas — and overall medtech innovation ideas — abound in Europe, with DeviceTalks Boston attendees getting just a sampling this morning from seven CRAASH Barcelona participants. The CRAASH Barcelona program trains research projects on how to market their health technologies during a three- to five-year period. It’s a boot camp run by EIT Health, the main European healthcare consortium, […]
Venture investing in medtech and digital health: Here’s advice from the trenches
Medtech entrepreneurs agree that it’s still tough to find funding at the Series A level. Here’s their advice about how to find it. Bill Evans Competition for medtech venture investing is fierce, at the same time that traditional investors pull back from the space. To get to the bottom of what’s going on, I reached […]
ResMed is disrupting connected health: Here’s how
Here’s how a respiratory firm took control of the connected health and the medtech digital revolution. When you think powerful digital connected devices, the first thing to pop into your head probably isn’t a CPAP. Continuous positive airway pressure has been shown in numerous studies to be effective in improving sleep apnea and preventing a […]
7 digital health startups you need to watch in 2018
If you want to see where the big money is going in healthcare these days, digital health products are the place to look. Digital health startups raised $11.5 billion in 2017, up 27 percent over 2016, according to the StartUp Health Insights Year End Report. Digital health startups are doing everything from enhancing patient-provider relationships to […]
Flex partners with Google Cloud on expanded digital health capabilities
Flex has recently expanded its digital health capabilities through a partnership with Google Cloud Platform — launching its BrightInsight managed service that delivers real-time information about connected drug, device or combination products. BrightInsight is a secure, managed services solutions that runs on Google Cloud Platform to gather data. “We saw the need for a secure […]
CES 2018: Medical technologies you need to know
Mobile health devices and wearables have increasingly played a prominent role at the annual CES show in Las Vegas. Health and medical devices touted at CES 2018 seek to improve everything from heart health to posture. Here are nine companies exhibiting digital health solutions at this year’s show. Next >>
Microsoft has a new digital health research initiative in the U.K.
Microsoft has tapped a top British health data researcher to head a new healthcare research initiative at its Cambridge research lab. Iain Buchan is presently a clinical professor of public health informatics at the University of Manchester – and director of the Health eResearch Centre, which is part of the U.K.’s Medical Research Council. Buchan will become […]
Healthcare IT funding hits record $5.1 billion
Global funding for healthcare information technology and digital health companies hit record levels last year, according to the latest annual report from Austin, Texas–based Mercom Capital Group. There were a record 622 deals worth $5.1 billion in 2016, up from 574 deals worth $4.6 billion in 2015, according to Mercom Capital Group. The amounts involve […]
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