The Global Ambulatory Diagnostic Cardiology Market is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by technological developments, and shifting models of healthcare service delivery and funding. The overall market will grow from $2.5 billion in 2021, to $3.3 billion by 2026, with Long-Term ECG and, to a lesser extent, Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCT), being the principal engines of growth. Unsurprisingly, these two markets are garnering serious attention from large incumbent vendors in the more established
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High Inflation is Driving The Deferment of Necessary Medical Care
Inflation continues to be a burden – food, gas, holiday spending, new year’s goals
This past year has been especially challenging as inflation costs continue to touch all aspects of daily life, leading to tough choices for many consumers as we finished the holiday season and look to goals and planning for 2023. In fact, two out of five (40%) survey respondents said inflation changed the way they shopped for the holidays.
As consumers adjust their spending habits, many are finding
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KLAS IV Workflow Management 2022: Functionality Drives Recent Purchases
What You Should Know:
- Health systems rely on IV workflow management solutions to streamline and improve pharmacy operations. Functionality has emerged as the most important criterion for prospective clients; however, no vendor meets all customer needs and performs at a high level, and each customer base notes gaps in functionality.
- To understand which solutions are being selected and why and help provider organizations select solutions that meet their unique needs, this new
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Sibel Health Raises $33M for Advanced Wearable Sensors for RPM
What You Should Know:
- Sibel Health has recently closed a $33M Series B financing round, bringing Sibel's total funding to date to more than $50M.
- In addition, Sibel has announced two new executive appointments. Jon Otterstatter, the former CEO and co-founder of Preventice (acquired by Boston Scientific in 2021), will join as chairman of the board. Matthew Banet, Ph.D., a world expert in advanced body-worn sensors and previously the CTO and co-founder of toSense and Sotera, joins as
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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?
All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program. Meanwhile, Forrester predicts the number of hospitals delivering acute care at home will triple in 2022. The reasons why are compelling: a study
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HealthQuest Capital Closes $675M for Fund IV to Invest in Transformational Healthcare Companies
What You Should Know:
- HealthQuest Capital, a sector specialist capital firm focused on companies optimizing value in healthcare, today announced the close of HealthQuest Partners IV, L.P., at its hard cap of $675M .
- The oversubscribed fund will enable HealthQuest to continue to invest in growth-stage companies that are revolutionizing the healthcare industry.
Providing Growth Capital to Companies Transforming Healthcare
Founded in 2013 by Garheng Kong, a physician, scientist, and
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Velano Vascular Raises $10M for FDA-Cleared Needle-Free Blood Draw Device
Velano Vascular, a San Francisco, CA-based vascular access technology innovator today announced that it has raised $10 million from strategic investor Intermountain Healthcare following the system’s rollout of the PIVO™ needle-free blood collection technology. The funding also included participation from Becton Dickinson’s former Chairman and CEO Edward Ludwig; notable entrepreneur, investor, and health sector philanthropist Marc Benioff; Baxter International’s former Chairman and CEO Robert
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Baxter Announces Bi-Directional Integration With Epic Willow Pharmacy
Baxter International, a technology provider of medication preparation and delivery has announced a new bi-directional integration between the DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow Manager and the Epic Willow Inpatient Pharmacy System. The integration will help hospitals efficiently comply with requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other insurers that call for accuracy in the documentation of the drugs used to compound doses for patients.DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow
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2014 Best in KLAS: Medical Equipment and Infrastructure Awards
Yesterday, KLAS announced their "2014 Best in KLAS" awards for the top-performing vendor solutions in medical equipment and infrastructure. The report provides a summary of the KLAS performance rating gathered over the past 12 months for medical equipment and infrastrcture vendors in 23 segments. Each segment includes a listing of vendor products ranked according to their KLAS performance scores, which have been compiled from the feedback of thousands of healthcare providers at physicians
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