Software & IT

Cardiovascular | Digital Health | Patient Monitoring | Software & IT

Researchers Awarded Grant for Non-Invasive System to Detect AFib

New ‘proactive healthcare’ application being built to capture videotaped sensory images of heart activity and blood flow.

Michelle Cometa, Rochester Institute of Technology 09.21.17

Software & IT

Quality Nightmares #27

Quality Nightmares offers a humerous look at the challenges faced by medtech companies.

MasterControl 09.20.17

Cardiovascular | Patient Monitoring | Software & IT

AFib? There's an App for That

$2 million grant funds effort to create mobile app to detect irregular heartbeat.

University of Rochester Medical Center 09.19.17

Software & IT | Surgical

Varian Expands Clinicians' Cancer-Fighting Toolkit with Eclipse 15.5

Multi-criteria optimization (MCO) provides the tools to fine tune and develop an optimal treatment plan.

Varian Medical Systems 09.18.17

Digital Health | Software & IT

FDA Clears First Prescription Digital Therapeutic to Treat Substance Use Disorder

The Reset device is indicated as a prescription-only adjunct treatment for patients.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration 09.15.17

Digital Health | Electronics | Patient Monitoring | Software & IT

$40 Keychain Detector Spots Food Allergens

The portable allergen-detection system uses what's called integrated exogenous antigen testing, or iEAT.

American Chemical Society 09.14.17

Digital Health | Patient Monitoring | Software & IT

Software Turns Mobile Phone Accessory into Breathing Monitor

Novel algorithms could allow portable, low-cost thermal cameras to detect breathing problems and monitor stress.

Videos The Optical Society

Cardiovascular | Patient Monitoring | Software & IT

Patients to Benefit from New 3D Visualizations of the Heart

In the future heart surgeons will have access to a new type of 3D visualization of the cardiac conduction system.

Aarhus University 09.12.17

Digital Health | Software & IT

Virtual Reality Alleviates Pediatric Patients' Pain & Anxiety

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford began implementing distraction-based VR therapy within every patient unit.

Kate DeTrempe, Media Relations Specialist, Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital Stanford 09.08.17

3D/Additive Manufacturing | Diagnostics | Digital Health | Neurological | Software & IT

PupilScreen Detects Concussion, Brain Injuries with a Smartphone

PupilScreen can detect changes in a pupil’s response to light using a smartphone’s video camera and deep learning tools.

Videos Jennifer Langston, University of Washington

Cardiovascular | Digital Health | Software & IT

A 'Virtual Heart' to Simulate Arrhythmia

Could provide opportunities to study relation between cardiac tissue morphology and arrhythmia development.

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 09.07.17

Cardiovascular | Digital Health | Patient Monitoring | Software & IT

App Replaces Ultrasound with Smartphone Camera to Measure Heart Health

Measures blood flow's pressure waveforms through the cardiovascular system; effectiveness demonstrated in clinical trials.

Videos California Institute of Technology

Diagnostics | Digital Health | Neurological | Software & IT

Software Spots First Signs of Parkinson's Before Symptoms Show

Researchers develop first tool that can diagnose Parkinson's disease when there are no physical symptoms.

Videos RMIT University

Cardiovascular | Digital Health | Patient Monitoring | Software & IT

AliveCor's 30 Second EKG Excels at Spotting AFib

App based, FDA-cleared, EKG technology substantiated by top researchers to detect possible atrial fibrillation.

PR Newswire 09.06.17

Software & IT

Six Document Control Problems for Medical Device Firms to Avoid

Homegrown systems and paper-based processes can create unnecessary risk for medical device companies when it comes to document management. From policies to manuals, regulatory reports to standard operating procedures (SOPs), these companies deal with…

Rachel Beavins Tracy, EtQ 09.01.17

Digital Health | R&D & Design | Software & IT