HealthQuest Capital raises $110M for healthcare investments
August 19, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani
PCORI dangles $90M in grants for comparative effectiveness research
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is looking to dole out $90 million in support for clinical research, the organization announced today.
Too many “never events” in the OR, study finds | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — High-stakes surgical mistakes defines as "never events" occur more than 4,000 times per year in the U.S., according to a study by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers.
About half of those incidents involve "foreign objects" left inside of patients following surgery, a quarter of cases involved surgeons who performed the wrong procedure, nearly another quarter involved procedures performed on the wrote site and a small set involved procedures performed on the wrong patient.
Siemens taps Harvard prof to replace interim health care CEO | Personnel Moves
Here are the latest personnel changes from medical device, diagnostics and life science companies around the nation. For more recent hirings and firings, check out MassDevice’s compilation of the latest personnel moves.
