The pandemic prompted the proliferation of innovative medical technology, but it is sometimes exclusionary and hard to use for those with disabilities, Kaiser Health News reported March 11.
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Wilmington, Del.-based ChristianaCare's hospital-care-at-home program allows for care at a place patients prefer, program medical director Sarah Schenck, MD, said March 11.
OSF Ventures, the innovation investment arm of Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare, joined a $12.5 million funding round for Epitel, a company that makes a wireless, wearable brain wave- monitoring device to detect seizures.
Fixing the smallest hearts is always a challenge, but Cincinnati Children's has developed a program to help physicians and patients through the difficult surgeries, using virtual reality.
Cleveland Clinic has teamed up with pathology artificial intelligence company PathAI to create a five-year strategic collaboration that will use AI for clinical diagnostics and to conduct research, according to a March 10 press release.
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When it comes to health tech partnerships, hospitals have a seemingly endless list of startups and companies from which to select. Becker's talked to three hospital executives to determine red flags that reveal a company is not partnership material:
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Fast Company on March 8 released its 2022 list of "The Most Innovative Health Companies," with 10 healthcare tech companies featured in the ranking.
Mobile healthcare company DocGo has launched a fleet of all electric, zero emissions ambulances, the first registered in the nation.
The American Medical Association launched a network aimed at helping organizations invest in equitable health innovation opportunities targeted to benefit historically marginalized communities.