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Advanced ICU Care Rebrands as Hicuity Health

by Jasmine Pennic 01/06/2021 Leave a Comment

Advanced ICU Care Announces Corporate Rebrand as Hicuity Health

What You Should Know: - Advanced ICU Care, has announced a corporate name change to Hicuity Health. The new brand more accurately reflects the organization’s evolving portfolio of advanced telemedicine services and future expansion of its solution offerings. - The updated branding will support Hicuity Health’s continuing expansion of its inpatient telemedicine solution offerings, with each new service line focused on aiding partner hospitals in improving patient health while also
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M&A: Philips Acquires Remote Cardiac Monitoring BioTelemetry for $2.8B

by Fred Pennic 12/18/2020 Leave a Comment

M&A: Philips Acquires Remote Cardiac Monitoring Platform BioTelemetry for $2.8B

What You Should Know: - Philips acquires BioTelemetry, a U.S. provider of remote cardiac diagnostics and monitoring for $72.00 per share for an implied enterprise value of $2.8 billion (approx. EUR 2.3 billion). - With $439M in revenue in 2019, BioTelemetry annually monitors over 1 million cardiac patients remotely; its portfolio includes wearable heart monitors, AI-based data analytics, and services. - BioTelemetry business is expected to deliver double-digit growth and improve its
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2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

by Fred Pennic 05/21/2020 Leave a Comment

2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

What You Should Know: - MedTech Breakthrough announces 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners that recognizes the top companies, people, platforms, and products in the health, fitness, and medical technology industries today. - The 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing digital health and medical technology products and services.  MedTech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that
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Do We Know When Medical Devices Fail?

by Leon Lerman, Cynerio Co-Founder and CEO 01/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Do We Know When Medical Devices Fail?

Leon Lerman, Cynerio Co-Founder, and CEO Since 2015, the FDA and the US Department of Homeland Security have been releasing warnings about products that due to their vulnerabilities threaten patient safety. This includes MRI machines and drug infusion pumps that supply patients with a wide diversity of drugs, including insulin, antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, and pain relievers.  The interconnectivity of smart devices with medical clinical systems leaves them vulnerable to security breaches
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Cerner Appoints Darrell Johnson as First Chief Marketing Officer

by Fred Pennic 09/16/2019 Leave a Comment

Cerner Appoints Darrell Johnson as First Chief Marketing Officer

Darrell Johnson, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Cerner - Former Medtronic executive Darrell Johnson joins Cerner as their first SVP and Chief Marketing Officer. - Johnson will oversee marketing, corporate communications and market intelligence in its next wave of growth to introduce its new solutions to the market. Cerner announced today it has appointed Darrell Johnson in the newly created role of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer where he
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Northwell Health Goes Live on Microsoft Teams for Secure Messaging

by Fred Pennic 09/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Northwell Health Goes Live on Microsoft Teams for Secure Messaging

- Northwell Health goes live on Microsoft Teams solution for clinicians for secure texting and helps improve care coordination across the enterprise. - A total of 8,300 Northwell staff currently use Microsoft Teams with future rollouts plan across the health system this year and into early 2020. Glen Cove Hospital, part of the Northwell Health network has gone live on the Microsoft Teams solution for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers to securely text one other
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Paperless Beyond EMRs: 3 Reasons Why Healthcare Should Switch to Online Forms

by Florin Cornianu, CEO of 123FormBuilder 07/08/2019 Leave a Comment

Paperless Beyond EMRs: 3 Reasons Why Healthcare Should Switch to Online Forms

Electronic medical records (EMRs) introduced a new era of healthcare management. Should healthcare operators want to venture farther, they may need to consider digitizing their internal operations, as well.Hospitals and clinics present extremely complex environments to manage. There is little wonder that manual and piecemeal approaches to everyday operations are no longer sufficient. Many healthcare operators are therefore turning to modern technologies. They can be optimized to make healthcare
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What The Failure of Microsoft’s HealthVault Means for the Future of EHRs

by Donald Brown, Founder & CEO of LifeOmic 04/19/2019 Leave a Comment

What The Failure of Microsoft’s HealthVault Means for the Future of EHRs

Microsoft recently announced that it is officially shutting down HealthVault at the end of this year. HealthVault was Microsoft’s attempt at a web-based personal health record system. You probably never used it -- it suffered low adoption. But while HealthVault will shut down, mobile apps that collect and store your personal health information and share it with your healthcare team are poised to revolutionize medicine and wellness practice. The downfalls of HealthVault included its focus on
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Biotricity Releases Mobile Cardiac Telemetry Solution

by Jasmine Pennic 03/05/2018 Leave a Comment

AT&T Taps biotricity To Power Wearable Medical Devices Medical

Biotricity today announced the commercial availability of Bioflux, a real-time, high-precision mobile cardiac telemetry solution for customers. The Bioflux system, which received final FDA approval in December, is a complete solution for cardiac monitoring and diagnosis, consisting of the Bioflux device, proprietary software, and a 24/7 monitoring center that merges seamlessly with physicians’ existing platforms and workflows.The Bioflux system is a complete solution for cardiac monitoring and
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Specialty Article: Growing Pains: Medical Device Interoperability

by Fred Pennic 06/27/2011

Specialty Article: Growing Pains: Medical Device Interoperability

Both provider organizations and medical device vendors have made significant, if slow-going, progress over the last several years to network their digitally-enabled medical devices. Recent strides in both the regulatory and standards arenas have provided renewed impetus on the part of both stakeholder groups to bring more interoperability to disparate medical devices, resulting in better security and quality of patient data.As healthcare providers continue their steady march toward implementing
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