Hill-Rom, a provider of medical technologies and manufacturer of hospital beds, announced that EarlySense, a contact-free continuous monitoring solution, has integrated its continuous contact-free heart-rate and respiratory-rate sensing and analytics technology into Hill-Rom's Centrella® Smart+ bed platform. EarlySense® technology alerts clinicians to potential patient deterioration events much earlier than traditional...
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS unveiled the prototype of a virtual surgery trainer at MEDICA 2018 in November. “HandsOn.surgery” helps surgeons prepare for individual patient cases prior to surgery, and enables them to practice the surgery. Both the surgical placement of implantable hearing aids and the...
CMR Surgical, a British company developing Versius – a next-generation surgical robotic system – and Florida Hospital’s Nicholson Center, a center of excellence for training, have launched the first U.S.-based training program for Versius. CMR Surgical expects to launch Versius, the next-generation surgical robot, in the U.S in 2019. CMR...
Differentiating a skin cancer from a harmless lesion can be tricky, especially for medical students who are still acquainting themselves with dermatology. Michael Kolodney, MD, chair of West Virginia University’s Department of Dermatology, has developed a smartphone app to help students practice diagnosing melanomas, a type of skin cancer, based...
Kitware added to its collection of open source toolkits with the first release of the interactive Medical Simulation Toolkit (iMSTK). The toolkit offers manufacturers and researchers all the software components they need to build and test virtual simulators for medical training and planning. “iMSTK, which we’ve been developing in close...
SonoSim, Inc., has been announced as a “Recognized Leader in Ultrasound Training” by Corporate Vision (CV) Magazine. The accolade comes as a part of CV’s 2018 HR & Training Awards, which highlight teams that have created and adopted innovative training techniques. “SonoSim is honored to receive the CV Magazine award...
HLTH, the world’s largest conference on health innovation for individuals, companies, and policymakers who are reshaping the industry, and Mercer, a global consulting leader in health, wealth, and career announced today that the two firms have signed an agreement to create a new forum for employers within the HLTH 2019...
by Andy Smith, MTM publisher The Leapfrog Group has announced the winners of its 2018 Top Hospital Awards with 118 hospitals recognized in four categories; Children’s, General, Teaching and Rural Hospitals. Florida, California, New jersey and Texas each recorded 12 or more hospitals receiving the highest awards for this year. Leapfrog...
The Chicago-based Society for Vascular Surgery will relocate its headquarters to Rosemont, Ill., near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, as of March 1, 2019. The SVS http://www.vascular.org/ is an international, not-for-profit professional medical society, serving specialty-trained vascular surgeons and allied professionals. The new headquarters includes access to a surgical simulation center...
Amazon launched Amazon Comprehend Medical, a new HIPAA-eligible machine learning service that allows developers to process unstructured medical text and identify information such as patient diagnosis, treatments, dosages, symptoms and signs, and more. Comprehend Medical helps health care providers, insurers, researchers and clinical trial investigators as well as health care...