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Philips Announces New Interoperability Capabilities that Offer a Comprehensive View of Patient Health for Improved Monitoring and Care Coordination

As a world leader monitoring more than 600 million patients each year worldwide, Philips is creating an open patient monitoring ecosystem to bring together disparate medical devices and systems on a single interface. Interoperability between MDIP and PIC iX gives clinicians a new clinical perspective that enables the capture of streaming data flowing freely from a variety of medical device manufacturers on an open, scalable, secure platform. By disseminating this information through the Patient Information Center, clinicians have a single source, comprehensive overview of a patient’s condition that helps empower caregivers to make treatment recommendations confidently from anywhere throughout the hospital’s digital environment.

Phillips-Medisize Teams with GlucoModicum to Develop an Innovative Needle-Free Continuous Glucose Monitor

GlucoModicum is an innovative medtech company based in Finland, to design and eventually commercialize a proprietary non-invasive, wearable device that removes technology and patient-care roadblocks to continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).

Fujitsu and iSurgery Launch Bone Health Promotion Project in Japan with Jikei University School of Medicine Aiming for Early Detection of Osteoporosis

In this demonstration, the project group will utilize iSurgery's AI medical device, the medical image analysis software Chest Bone Indicator (3) (AI medical device), to assess bone health from chest radiographs and notify the results of health examinations for Fujitsu Group employees.

Combining best-in-class AI-powered Technologies for Musculoskeletal (MSK) Imaging Workflows – ImageBiopsy Lab and Radiobotics sign Collaboration Agreement

Dr. Richard Ljuhar, CEO and Co-Founder of ImageBiopsy Lab, explains, "Before even considering the use of AI, it's crucial to grasp physicians' diagnostic workflow and needs. For this purpose we've closely collaborated with leading MSK radiologists, orthopaedics, and traumatologists over the past years. We're committed to revolutionizing the entire MSK diagnostic value chain for practitioners, patients, and healthcare systems.

Lunit’s AI-Powered Mammography Analysis Solution Achieves Comparable Diagnostic Performance with Human Readers

"This first study to apply the Personal Performance in Mammographic Screening (PERFORMS) scheme to AI algorithms marks a remarkable achievement, showcasing our AI's ability to match human performance in detecting breast cancer. It offers hope to patients worldwide and underscores AI's potential to enhance cancer detection and treatment outcomes," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit.

Philips Extends its Mobile C-arm Range with Zenition 30, Alleviating Staff Shortages by Empowering Surgeons with Greater Personalization and Control

Mobile C-arms are X-ray systems that are brought into the operating room (OR) to provide live image guidance during a wide range of clinical procedures which include orthopedics, trauma, spine, pain management and other surgical procedures.

ZEISS Reimagined the Iconic PENTERO Platform for Today’s Digital Age

"The iconic ZEISS PENTERO platform is one of the most widely used surgical microscopes around the world with more than 20 million surgical procedures to date. With the surgeons' constantly evolving discipline-specific challenges in mind, ZEISS now reimagined it for today's digital age to support them in elevating the microsurgical interventions to yet another level," says Magnus Reibenspiess, Head of Strategic Business Unit Microsurgery, ZEISS Medical Technology.

Magewell Capture and Encoding Solutions Enable Robust Remote Medical Workflows for Careprod Technologies

“When connecting to medical devices, the frame rates and video formats are often different than standard video signals,” said Loic Lalet, CEO of Careprod Technologies. “Robustness and reliability in handling these specialized video signals.is crucial for medical applications, where they need to be transmitted without any loss of data or signal degradation.”

GE HealthCare Introduces Vscan Air SL, a Wireless Handheld Ultrasound Device for Rapid Assessments of Cardiac and Vascular Patients

The latest addition to the Vscan product suite, Vscan Air SL features GE HealthCare’s proprietary SignalMax and XDclear technology that provide high levels of penetration, resolution, and sensitivity in imaging performance with an industry-leading single crystal transducer technology.

Philips Integrates AI in Cardiac Ultrasound and Across Cardiac Care at ESC 2023

Integrating AI in cardiac ultrasound - Ultrasound is one of the most used imaging modalities as the first line of diagnosis for cardiac patients. A shortage of operators dealing with heavy workloads and growing numbers of complex cases continues to challenge health systems across the globe.
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Shoulder Innovations Further Strengthens IP Portfolio in Key Areas with Recent Patent Grants

"These recent grants further strengthen key patent families that are foundational to our technology, and we are pleased the USPTO continues to recognize our meaningful innovation in the shoulder arthroplasty segment," said Rob Ball, CEO of Shoulder Innovations. "This noteworthy expansion of our IP position represents the culmination of over 10 years of research and development, and we are proud of our team for their continued dedication to creating practical solutions for shoulder surgeons and advancing patient outcomes."

Radical Catheter Technologies Presents Analysis of Disruptive, Recently FDA-Cleared Endovascular Technology at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery 21st Annual Meeting

This new catheter, the first product commercialized from this novel technology platform, is designed to enable access to the blood vessels in the brain for both femoral and radial access. A multi-center analysis of this disruptive technology is being presented today at Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery 21st annual meeting. In addition, the Company confirmed the closing of a $20 million financing round led by NeuroTechnology Investors, which will be used to scale the company and expand the Radical platform notes Radical Catheter Technologies.

Rapid Medical™ Completes Initial Neurovascular Cases in the USA Following FDA Clearance of Its Active Access Solution

“With DRIVEWIRE, our design goal was to bring new levels of access and control to the interventional suite while improving best-in-class guidewires,” comments Giora Kornblau, Chief Technology Officer at Rapid Medical. “When physicians are looking for technologies that increase the clinical possibilities and safety for the patient, we want Rapid to be the first place they look.”