Today, 3M announced it has added 3M Extended Wear Medical Transfer Adhesive, 4075 to its lineup of advanced adhesives for wearable medical devices. Designed to laminate many substrates, 3M medical transfer adhesive, 4075 features an extended wear pressure sensitive transfer adhesive and allows design engineers to use a variety of backings. 3M medical transfer adhesive, 4075 offers excellent initial skin adhesion with up to a 14-day wear time, depending on the backing material used.The Critical
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TriNetX Acquires European Clinical Data Network InSite
TriNetX, a global health research network that revolutionizes clinical research and enables discoveries through the generation of real-world evidence (RWE) has acquired Belgium-based Custodix NV and its InSite network. InSite network is a European-based provider of services for clinical trial design, patient feasibility, and enabling workflow for patient recruitment. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
InSite Clinical Data Network Background
The InSite platform is an
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6 Patient Influencers Redefining The Healthcare Landscape
Most people are now familiar with social media influencers. They're the individuals who use their popularity to encourage followers to try clothing brands, food, makeup, and gadgets. As anyone who watched either of the two Fyre Festival documentaries now knows, they can be instrumental in getting people on board with things associated with disastrous consequences.
There's a relatively new concept in the influencer world. It involves people known as patient influencers doing just as the name
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UM Spinout Fifth Eye Lands $11.5M for Early Warning Patient Deterioration System for Hospitals
Fifth Eye, a medical device software spinoff from the University of Michigan building clinical early warning patient deterioration system for hospitals has raised $11.5 million in Series A funding led by Arboretum Ventures and Cultivation Capital. Other participants in the round include were MINTS, the direct investing arm of the University of Michigan’s endowment, along with additional capital from previous investors Invest Michigan and 35 private angel investors.Why Clinicians Need A Better
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Analysis: How Digital Health Solutions Are Disrupting Care Delivery in Hospitals
Rainer Herzog, Vice President at Research2GuidanceNew stakeholders are entering the hospital arena, contesting the hospitals’ traditional role and freedom to provide care to the community. The newcomers’ focus is on digital care delivery processes and on a digitally enabled patient experience. Hospitals will have to start now to prepare their organizations for the coming change. Creating digital partner ecosystems is one prominent way to approach this task. Hospital stays can be frightening,
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CMS Launches $1.65M Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the launch of their first-ever Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge. The three-stage competition accelerates artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to better predict health outcomes such as unplanned hospital and skilled nursing facility admissions and adverse events for potential use by the Innovation Center in testing innovative payment and service delivery models under the authority of section 1115A of
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Mount Sinai Launches Institute for Digital Health to Improve Health Outcomes
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) are teaming up to launch the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai with the goal to develop digital health products with real-time predictive and preventive capabilities that empower patients and health care providers and improve health and health outcomes. Together, the new institute brings together industry leaders with combined expertise in health care delivery, health sciences, biomedical and
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Biolinq Lands $4.75M to Expand Biosensor Patch for Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Biolinq, a San Diego, CA-based digital health company developing a minimally-invasive electrochemical biosensor patch for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has raised $4.75 million in Series A funding led by the JDRF T1D Fund, Aphelion Capital and LifeSci Venture Partners. Existing investors in the round include M Ventures and Hikma Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals. The latest round brings Biolinq’s total Series A funding to $15 million.Inception of
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Life Image, swyMed Integrate to Enhance Telestroke Capabilities at Rural Hospitals
Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data, and swyMed, a leading telemedicine provider are teaming up to enhance telestroke capabilities. Life Image’s interoperable solution, which integrates into existing workflows, orchestrates the flow of more than 10 million clinical encounters per month.Challenges with Acute Stroke TreatmentThere are several access-related challenges associated with acute stroke treatment, which are further compounded by the fact that diagnosis and
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DarioHealth Integrates Blood Glucose Data with Glytec’s Outpatient Insulin Management Solution
DarioHealth Corp., a blood glucose monitoring system has announced a joint marketing agreement with Glytec, a provider of insulin titration solutions. As part of the partnership, Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System is now available to hospitals and health systems using Glytec’s virtual insulin titration service for outpatients with diabetes.Integration Details & BenefitsBlood glucose data from the Dario Blood Glucose Monitoring System automatically sent to the Cloud in real-time, will be
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