Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Sensor-based and wearable monitoring technologies promise to aid chronic-care management.Accurate and consistent monitoring remains one of the biggest challenges for physicians who care for chronically ill patients, especially older populations. But what if doctors and clinicians could use automated technology to more easily track patient activity and stop episodic problems before they start?Researchers at the
[ Read More ]Scientists at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Boston Childrens Hospital have developed a cheap, sensitive, and highly accurate way of detecting protein biomarkers. The technology may very well revolutionize diagnostics, disease monitoring, and help stop the spread of infectious pathogens. The nanoswitch-linked immunosorbent assay (NLISA) has the potential to be as simple to
[ Read More ]Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a hand-held surgical pen that can analyze tissue samples and tell a surgeon if they are cancerous in just a few seconds.During surgery to remove a tumor, surgeons need to know if they have removed the entire tumor margins, as leaving just a small piece
[ Read More ]The Food and Drug Administration has issued final premarket guidance for how medical device manufacturers should address secure data exchange between devices and with other health IT systems.
[ Read More ]A handheld pen can detect cancer cells within seconds, speeding up diagnosis and helping surgeons more accurately remove tumors, researchers reported Wednesday.The probe works in real time, and is at least as accurate as removing a tissue sample and sending it to a pathologist, the team at the University of Texas at Austin reported.
[ Read More ]“We’ve been ducking bullets” when it comes to cybersecurity incidents impacting patient safety, says consultant Brian Selfridge, a former healthcare CISO,
[ Read More ]Scientists have developed a camera that can see through the human body. The camera is designed to help doctors track medical tools known as endoscopes that are used to investigate a range of internal conditions.
[ Read More ]NxStage Medical, a company based in Lawrence, MA that focuses on hemodialysis equipment, won FDA clearance for its System One to be used by the patients at home and by themselves. This is the first such clearance that gives people with end stage renal disease a new level of independence from clinics and at-home carers.
[ Read More ]Abbott received FDA approval for its HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device (LVAD), a pump designed to augment cardiac output in patients with severe heart failure that are waiting for their heart to recover or that are in line for a transplant. Featuring the Full MagLev, as the technology is called by Abbott, the HeartMate
[ Read More ]The agency is instructing patients with certain implantable cardiac pacemakers from St. Jude Medical – now owned by Abbott Laboratories – to visit their physicians for firmware updates to address cyber vulnerabilities that can potentially be remotely exploited by hackers and that pose safety concerns.Approximately 465,000 such devices are in use in the U.S., an
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