Omnicell will also provide services to Spartanburg Regional’s newly acquired Mary Black campuses. The new medical centre will incorporate automation solutions designed to enhance quality and safety across existing and newly acquired facilities of Spartanburg Regional. Omnicell’s automation and cloud-based predictive intelligence solutions enable Spartanburg Regiona...
Mobility is a big factor in the mechanical design of a medical device. On the surface are the big obvious questions: Will it move? Does it have wheels? Does it have to be small, light, and portable? But for medical devices, it’s a lot more than that. Under the IEC 60601-1 Medical Electrical Equipment standard, the mobility classification of a device defines which tests n...
With cancer, the key to successful treatment is catching it early. As it stands, doctors have access to high quality imaging, and skilled radiologists can spot the telltale signs of abnormal growth. Once identified, the next step is for doctors to ascertain whether the growth is benign or malignant. The most reliable method is to take a biopsy, which is an invas...
Randox Laboratories has today announced its achievement in being awarded the Manufacturer Certification by the National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program (NGSP); for direct HbA1c testing on three of its clinical chemistry analysers; the RX modena, RX imola and RX daytona+. NGSP is recommended for laboratories conducting diabetes-related clinical trials and is on...
The collaborative Youth Apprenticeship Program for advanced manufacturing – with the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith in partnership with ABB was launched at the Fort Smith Area Chamber of Commerce Signing Day in May – with 9 students from 6 local high schools officially joining ABB as apprentices. The event saw 31 students from UAFS and regional high schools publi...
Foster Corp. broke ground on a new 55,780ft2 (5,182m2) manufacturing facility adjacent to its headquarter in Putnam, Connecticut. This expansion comes only a few years after Foster opened a new pharmaceutical building for its Delivery Science business. According to Larry Acquarulo, Foster CEO and owner, “Foster’s recent growth has necessitated the new building as both...
The design of the new Asplundh Cancer Pavilion for the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Institute at Jefferson Health was driven by “healing within the natural environment” and the goal of caring holistically for people with cancer.From the original site layout to the design of the interior, nature is woven into the center’s fabric. Clear, linear geometry of the space, overlaid with...
Upon its completion in fall 2020, the new facility will enhance the clinic’s services including physical therapy, with the addition of an advanced imaging center and the expansion of ROC Express Urgent Care, where patients can receive fast treatment with no appointment required. The facility serves as the only urgent care and orthopedic care site in Reno’s emerging do...
The new Saint Joseph Medical Office Pavilion, which is expected to be completed in July of 2020, will include three floors dedicated to Class A medical office space. The ground floor will house convenient retail and restaurant venues. The rooftop will offer unique indoor/outdoor space and scenic views of downtown Denver and the Front Range, as well as wellness/fitness an...
As medical device manufacturers and labelers mark their products with unique device identifiers to address the requirements of the U.S. FDA’s Unique Device Identification (UDI) Rule, these identifiers can also be scanned at the point of care. Healthcare providers can improve patient safety and, at the same time, realize operational efficiencies by scanning UDI bar codes ...
Deep within the Mojave Desert in the remote Fort Irwin community of Southern California, soldiers prepare for deployment at the Army’s premier combat training center. Every year, the installation has the mission of receiving and training visiting rotations of battalion and brigade-level units, ranging in size from 4,000 to 6,000 soldiers. During a rotation, this trans...
Completed in 2016, the 230,000-square-foot ProMedica Health and Wellness Center consolidated 11 physician practices with outdated infrastructure systems throughout Sylvania, Ohio, into one shared multispecialty facility in the heart of the city. The $50 million center features 23 interconnected standard clinic modules that enhance mobility for patients, staff and supplie...
Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, Mo., started building microhospitals so patients with less serious or nonsurgical needs could get faster care more conveniently. In turn, the health system’s higher level emergency departments have increased capacity to care for higher-acuity patients who require access to more specialized services, says Jeremy Bechtel, vice pre...
The 15,000-square-foot medical building, owned by Sansone Group, houses SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Pediatric Specialty Services and also an office of SSM Health Medical Group Pediatrics. Specialty services offered at the new center include gastroenterology, otolaryngology, orthopedics, pulmonology, neurology and endocrinology. The building’s child-friendly design inc...
The option to train collaboratively offers improved learning opportunities for surgeons and the surgical teams regardless of their physical location and at a moment’s notice, allowing for more efficient and frequent training sessions. It also allows medical device companies to offer unlimited training to multiple surgeons in one session. Surgeons can train one-on-one in ...
The international need to ensure patients’ safety have led many countries to adopt regulations for identifying the “Medical Devices” (contact lenses, bandages, scalpels, syringes, prosthesis, vitro diagnostic devices). The UDI code (Unique Device Identifier) provides all the standardized information related to the life cycle of the device: from its production to its f...
The prioritization of exome data by image analysis (PEDIA) project, under development by the University of Bonn (Germany), GeneTalk (Bonn, Germany), Charité University Medicine (Charité; Berlin, Germany), and other institutions, is designed to interpret exome data by analyzing sequence variants in portrait photographs, and integrating the results using the DeepGestalt ph...
Don’t let the color white of lab coats fool you—there’s big difference between the quality of lab coats and it’s all in the details which start at Barco’s headquarters in Los Angeles, California. Most medical historians agree that physicians first started wearing white lab coats in the early 19th century. Today, lab coats are a symbol of recognition, respect and profe...
The Nexus combines the capabilities of Mixonix’s three existing products, namely BoneScalpel, SonicOne and Sonastar, into a single system that can be used to perform tumor resections, bone corrections, and a whole host of other procedures. It will be made available for purchase in the U.S. next month. The Nexus is designed to accommodate future ultrasonic devices that...
The ante-room of artificial intelligence The term “artificial intelligence” might be misleading as due to the overuse of the expression, its meaning started to get inflated. It implies software with cognition and sentience, a far far more developed technology than it stands at the moment. For example, Facebook announced an A.I. to detect suicidal thoughts posted to its ...
What if a hurricane destroys the electric grid? What if power supplies get cut off by unstoppable rain? What about a future dystopic scenario with our traditional energy sources depleted due to overconsumption? And what if we just look at less fortunate parts of the world where stable electricity service is a rare treasure? We collected some examples of how medicine coul...
Researchers at Rice University have now created a way to incorporate biomolecules intended for delivery to a target site in the body into structural components within an injectable hydrogel. These biomolecules give the hydrogel its unique pliability, and they can provide a therapeutic effect at the site of injection while simultaneously working as part of the hydrogel st...
The system works by identifying an individual’s strengths and weaknesses, and curating mental exercises to help them progress most rapidly. The work could have significant implications for future AI-based trainings, counseling, and therapy. Most training exercises and courses in existence are developed for the masses: everyone undergoes the same online training, indep...
Ellavi, a uterine balloon tamponade (UBT) developed by Sinapi Biomedical, a company based in South Africa, and PATH, a global healthcare organization, has just received the European Union’s CE mark of approval. Though intended for Europe, the CE mark is recognized in many countries outside the continent, so the new clearance gives the Ellavi device broad access to where ...
Mental health algorithms mimicking empathy? A.I. outsmarting human doctors? Simple big data analytical software presented with clever marketing tactics? It’s difficult to assess the actual state of play when it comes to artificial intelligence in healthcare. Moreover, there’s no database that contains all the smart algorithms worth applying to medical processes. That’s t...
Results of Fetch Robotics’ inaugural FetchIt! Mobile Manipulation Challenge. The competition was designed to advance the state of technology for applying mobile manipulators, which are autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) fitted with robotic arms, for use in manufacturing and related applications. The FetchIt! Challenge attracted teams from leading universities, who were task...
Xometry has entered into a national distribution agreement with Mitsubishi Materials U.S.A to offer select cutting tools on Xometry Supplies, its online store. Beginning in June, customers will be able to choose from the full line-up of DiaEdge and MOLDINO cutting tools, expanding the Xometry Supplies offering of CNC machine tooling by more than 25,000 items. "Xometry...
Researchers from Washington State University and The Ohio State University have developed a low-cost, easy way to make custom lenses that could help manufacturers avoid the expensive molds required for optical manufacturing. Led by Lei Li, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and graduate student, Mojtaba Falahati, the researchers...
BTG Labs’ new website includes detailed information about BTG Labs’ inspection products and the suite of services that support them. BTG Labs inspection products include the handheld Surface Analysts 3001 and 2001 and the one-of-a-kind, automated inline surface inspection system, the Surface Analyst XA. These systems conduct highly sensitive surface quality inspections o...
NICE gives the following three recommendations: 1.1 Evidence supports the case for adopting PICO negative pressure wound dressings for closed surgical incisions in the NHS. They are associated with fewer surgical site infections and seromas compared with standard wound dressings. 1.2 PICO negative pressure wound dressings should be considered as an option for clo...
Claus Duedal Pedersen, Chief Consultant at the OUH innovation unit, talked about a video-based project to treat COPD patients at home. ME e-magazine: What is the story that originated the CIMT? Claus Duedal Pedersen: It really is a development that has taken place over the past 15 years. The basic idea was to connect technology specialists and healthcare profession...
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Stabilization Unit (CAPSU) at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, is a specialized unit for children and teenagers with urgent mental health issues requiring a five- to seven-day stay in the hospital for stabilization. The 10-bed unit opened in May 2017 in a renovated space previously occupied by the hospital...
Celsius42 GmbH, one of the leading manufacturers of hyperthermia systems for use in oncology, has entered into a far-reaching, long-term strategic cooperation with the Lootah Group from Dubai. Both companies perceive the use of hyperthermia as a versatile vision for the treatment of cancer that is particularly beneficial for patients. Cancer is a health concern that is ...
The portable Scolioscan Air developed by the research team of PolyU’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) was recently awarded Grand Award, Gold Medal with the Congratulations of Jury, and Special Merit Award at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva held in April. Scoliosis is one of the most prevalent spinal diseases affecting adolescents....
Airborne diseases are very easily transmitted, and can result in respiratory illness that can be life threatening. It's therefore no wonder that outbreaks of airborne infectious diseases are a major public health concern, and that researchers are working hard to come up with technologies to provide clean air. So far, however, such technologies have had limited success. ...
Spinal implants, cutting guides, and replicas of patients’ hearts are just a few of the ways in which digital manufacturing processes have improved the medical industry. As the techniques for implementing additive manufacturing technology for medicine are refined, there looms a crucial problem, which is a problem of access. While the FDA is slowly approving some uses ...
