Healthcare Technology Articles
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Speeding Up Healthcare Innovation Leveraging Cloud Technology
Over the past decade, cloud computing has undergone remarkable expansion. The collective revenue generated by AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft surged from $49 billion in 2018 to an astonishing $206 billion in 2022.[i] Projections from Future Market Insights indicate that the revenue from cloud services is poised to maintain an impressive average annual growth rate of 21%, reaching a staggering ...
By Caresyntax
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IPEG 2023: Setting a Foundation for Healthcare Transformation
I recently had the pleasure of attending the IPEG annual meeting in Sorrento, Italy. The collegiality of the surgeons attending the conference was fantastic, and the views of Sorrento and the Island of Capri were stunning. With smaller accessible markets (due to smaller patient volumes and higher incidence of rare disease), specialty areas like pediatrics have been overlooked and under-addressed ...
By Caresyntax
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MedTech Round Table: The ROI of Surgical Digital Transformation
Caresyntax hosted a roundtable discussion on how digital transformation—specifically the collection of data in the surgical suite—can drive both quality and return on investment (ROI). The participants included a panel of esteemed healthcare professionals in surgery, nursing, investing, sales, healthcare technology, and academics. The following is a summary of the new pathways and ...
By Caresyntax
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How Healthcare is Being Transformed By Remote Patient Monitoring
It cannot be denied that the healthcare sector is evolving quickly due to development and technological advancements. The creation of remote patient monitoring (RPM) systems and apps is a result of this. Healthcare providers can remotely monitor and examine patient health data thanks to remote patient monitoring systems. This provides people with convenience and easy access to healthcare. ...
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Barriers to data sharing in today’s healthcare landscape
In today’s healthcare environment, the general consensus is that the exchange and flow of data is crucial and beneficial to developing better care of the patients. Healthcare information exchanges (HIEs), as an example, have shown to be effective in improving public health, reducing healthcare redundancies, and providing clinical providers with more support tools in their day-to-day work. ...
By Segmed, Inc.
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Entrepreneur in Residence
Celdara Medical, LLC (CM) is developing a portfolio of preclinical therapeutic assets, platforms, and companies. Each of these has a different development path, and we work with many different modalities, and in many different indications, but everything we do is singularly focused on saving lives and/or improving quality of life. The successful Entrepreneur In Residence will identify one or ...
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PTR Robots meet public demands and strengthen care solutions - Case Study
The development of PTR Robots Hospitals spend a lot of resources on conventional patient handling procedures which led Project University Hospital Køge to look for more efficient and flexible alternatives, that would benefit both patient and caregiver and integrate rehabilitation in the daily care routines. The purpose was also to create one solution that fits all situations to avoid ...
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Transforming Genomics Through 2022 and Beyond: Spotlight on Brian Longo
A growing number of governments, pharmaceutical companies and research organisations are choosing Lifebit for its secure, cutting-edge platform and visionary team. Lifebit is pleased to spotlight Brian Longo, who has joined as Lifebit’s Executive Strategic Advisor. Responsible for guiding the design and execution of Lifebit’s rapidly scaling operating models and processes, ...
By Lifebit
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Importance of Investing in Healthcare and MedTech R&D
Jian Zhang: Technology has always been a vital ally for healthcare. From diagnostic capabilities finding disease earlier to therapies that increase the quality of care, improve clinical efficiency, and lower cost. But healthcare has been slow to adopt technology because innovation can be long, incremental, and path-dependent. This is especially true when examining investment in research and ...
By Noah Medical
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Digital revolution in the healthcare industry
The Covid-19 pandemic has left a devastating mark on the US healthcare system. Struggling nurses and doctors have revealed the cracks that exist within the system and are demanding change to improve their lives and the well-being of their patients. A digital revolution has been started in the US healthcare industry, giving hope to those who have dedicated their lives to it. A medical trend ...
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Looking for a Healthcare ERM Solution? Make Sure You Get the Real Thing
Healthcare provider organizations (HPOs) are starting to recognize the value of consolidating vendors and implementing an Enterprise Risk Management solution that is both holistic and comprehensive. But finding software – and a vendor – that can fulfill the promise of a true integrated solution for Enterprise Risk Management in healthcare can be tricky. Part of the challenge is ...
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UVision360, Inc. – Luminelle DTx Hysteroscopy System
Allison London Brown, CEO of UVision360, Inc. in North Carolina, discusses the Luminelle DTx Hysteroscopy System. Traditionally, these procedures are conducted in a hospital or ambulatory setting. But the Luminelle system is compact and designed to be used in the doctor’s office, and the company is expected to file an application with the FDA that will allow doctors to conduct the first ...
By LUMINELLE
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Managing the full medical equipment lifecycle
Using Medical Equipment Capital Planning Software To Transform Your Equipment Lifecycle. According to a Moody’s Investor’s Service analysis,"Not-for-profit and public healthcare - US: Medians - Regional hospital medians mirror stress seen in national trends", operating margins for hospitals have fallen to an all-time low of 1.6%. Becker’s CFO Report, "A new way of thinking ...
By Accruent
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How to reduce diagnostic errors through patient engagement
As patients, we like to think diagnostic errors are rare, but the reality is they are fairly common. According to a recent Medscape poll, one in six physicians reported making diagnostic errors daily. Aside from the ongoing risk to patient health and safety, diagnostic errors also pose a considerable financial threat, with one study suggesting they cost the U.S. economy $750 billion each ...
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Targeting 100! Envisioning the high performance hospital in six climate regions
Cost control, maintaining quality healing and working environments, and more sustainable, energy efficient operations are important topics in healthcare today. This team has developed research directed at much higher performing hospitals - targeting both energy performance and interior environmental quality, for little capital investment in six of the most populous and diverse climate regions in ...
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Critical review on hospital surgical room and mechanical system designs
The design of HVAC systems for surgical operating rooms requires specific guidance for the design engineer in order to insure that thermal comfort and sepsis control are maintained at all times in order to protect the occupants of the room. Operating room ventilation has been through significant design improvements from the beginning of the 20th century until now. Researchers have found that the ...
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Standards in Capstone Projects
My standards education began in 1990 when I became the chairman of an ASTM International task group. I was the group leader of R&D for a medical device manufacturer, recognized the need for a specific industry standard and felt that taking a leadership role in developing this standard would be a good professional development activity. The standard was eventually approved and I continue to ...
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Adult ambulatory assistive devices: need for an improved design
The pairing of healthcare practitioners with engineers can produce products to revolutionise patient care. This paper discusses benefits of a novel-design ambulatory assistive device to promote gait efficiency and safety in adult individuals with balance disorders. Posterior-wheeled walkers are commonly used and reported in paediatric research literature to promote increased walking speed and ...
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Building effective institutional frameworks to support pharmacogenetic research: an international empirical analysis
As science unravels the genetic basis of disease, the opportunities offered by pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics (PGx) for future healthcare become more and more apparent. The objective of this paper is to analyse the current state of PGx research and explore future strategies for more efficient research projects and supportive infrastructures. Based on internet searches and an online survey ...
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US armed forces medical operations other than war
Expertise in combat healthcare planning, operations and technology translates well into domestic and international humanitarian health relief. The US military medical services have extensive daily activities in public health and medicine that are integrated with civilian organisations, and are related to health research, prevention of disease and healthcare rather than to combat operations. These ...
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