Former President Bill Clinton addressed an audience of healthcare industry stakeholders last night, asking them to help leave the system better than they found it through coordinated efforts to leverage technology and expertise in the interest of patient health.
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MassDevice.com +3 | The top 3 med-tech stories for Jan. 14, 2013
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Patient safety: Q&A with Masimo founder Joe Kiani
Patient safety: Zoll CEO makes the pledge to share data
Medical device maker Zoll Medical is among the 1st medical device companies to sign on to the patient safety and medical device data pledge proposed by Masimo (NSDQ:MASI) founder & CEO Joe Kiani this weekend.
The pledge includes promises to open up patient data gathered by medical devices to clinicians, patients and anyone else who can help improve patient care.
Patient safety: Kiani “blown away” by pledges to open up healthcare data
Patient safety: Masimo touts hemoglobin study results
Patient Safety: Why we’re sponsoring the Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit
Sixteen years ago a bagel nearly killed me.
I was just out of college and living at my parents’ house – depressing enough to commit hari-kiri with a stale pastry, but that’s beside the point.
My brush with how the medical system can inadvertently hurt you began as I was cutting the bagel and sliced a chunk off my palm. The wound required 3 stitches.
Masimo’s iPhone pulse oximeter in action (video) | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Masimo (NSDQ:MASI) enlisted the help of Stig Åvall Severinsen, who holds the world record for holding his breath for 22 minutes underwater, to demonstrate how the company’s new iSpO2 iPhone- and iPad-friendly pulse oximeter measures blood oxygenation, pulse rate and a perfusion index using a finger sensor and a cable that connects to their mobile devices.
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"We play a critical role in managing and moving market share. I think the device sector has not necessarily acknowledged the role of the GPOs, but I think increasingly, as products mature in particular, GPOs play a vital role in helping to drive market share up on behalf of a supplier." — Novation CEO Jody Hatcher Masimo debuts 1st iPhone pulse oximeterMedical device maker Masimo (NSDQ:MASI) today unveiled its iSpO2, a novel pulse oximetry system for use with iPods, iPhones and iPads, the company’s 1st consumer-marketed product. Patients can use the iSpO2 device to measure blood oxygenation, pulse rate and a perfusion index using a finger sensor and a cable that connects to their mobile devices. |