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HealthQuest Capital looks to investments with its new $110M funding round | Medtech funding for the week of August 18, 2014

August 22, 2014 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

HealthQuest Capital raises $110M for healthcare investments

August 19, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani

HealthQuest Capital raises $110M for healthcare investments

Filed Under: Funding Roundup, News Well Tagged With: electroCore, HealthQuest Capital, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Piper Jaffray, Seventh Sense Biosystems Inc., Sofinnova Partners

PCORI dangles $90M in grants for comparative effectiveness research

August 18, 2014 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

PCORI dangles $90M in grants for comparative effectivness research

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is looking to dole out $90 million in support for clinical research, the organization announced today.

Filed Under: Funding Roundup, News Well Tagged With: Clinical Trials, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

Too many “never events” in the OR, study finds | MassDevice.com On Call

December 21, 2012 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

MassDevice 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.

Filed Under: News Well, Surgical Tagged With: Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), Johns Hopkins, On Call, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

Siemens taps Harvard prof to replace interim health care CEO | Personnel Moves

May 16, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

MassDevice.com 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.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Abiomed, Angeion Corp., Echo Therapeutics Inc., Foundation Medicine Inc., iPierian, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Personnel Moves, Siemens, University of the Sciences, Welch Allyn

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