Olympus announced today the FDA 510(k) clearance of its Airway Mobilescopes, the MAF-TM2, MAF-GM2, and MAF-DM2, enabling providers to perform a variety of upper and lower airway management procedures. Anesthesiologists, pulmonologists and providers of critical care and intensive care will appreciate the anytime/anywhere benefits, the digital capture capability, and small footprint of the MAF models' all-in-one design. "We are proud to present to the market the only flexible

A combination of medical applications for digital internet-of-things technologies coming into their own, and an explosion of interest in the healthcare sector spurred on by the global health crisis is sending the healthcare technology space into a period of incredible innovation. Healthcare technology companies like Mednow Inc. (TSXV: MNOW), Hologic, Inc (NASDAQ: HOLX), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), Medtronic plc (NYSE:M DT), and Amwell (NYSE: AMWL) are developing new systems and devi

ClearDATA®, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, has expanded its partnership with BioIntelliSense, a continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence company dedicated to remote care and analysis of rich high-frequency vital sign data for patients and their medical care teams. The companies have been engaged since April of last year to meet the unprecedented requirements for remote care solutions spawned by the pandemic – ensuring that the s

Carson Tahoe Health (CTH) joins the three percent of hospitals in the nation to have received Pathway to Excellence® designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The Pathway designation is a global credential that highlights an organization's commitment to creating a healthy work environment where nurses feel empowered and valued. CTH nurses - from the urgent cares and medical group clinics to the Regional Medical Center and surgery rooms - are an integr

Genesis Software Innovations "GSI," a company that has created an innovative foundational platform solution in the orthopedic space, announced today that they have received FDA clearance for their PreView™ 3D Shoulder Arthroplasty Planning Software. The PreView™ Shoulder Software is a breakthrough tool for orthopedic surgeons to develop pre-operative shoulder plans based on CT imaging studies. PreView™ software allows surgeons to perform surgical planning by showin

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) announced that Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology, has become the latest industry sponsor of the American Spine Registry. Medtronic's sponsorship of the ASR builds upon its commitment to advancing the science of spine care and improving spine surgery outcomes with a shared goal of improving patient care. "The American Spine Registry is building mome

Confluent Medical Technologies Inc. (Confluent) announced today a strategic investment in The Electrospinning Company Ltd. (Electrospinning). Electrospinning, a UK-based company, has developed a proprietary electrospinning process which will expand the design options utilized in the structural heart market and fully automate the process of attaching biomedical textiles to heart valve frames. Implant designs for the fast-growing, transcatheter structural heart market primarily utiliz

Santen Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, Santen), a global company focused exclusively on ophthalmology, today announced the approval of PRESERFLOTM MicroShunt by Health Canada. PRESERFLO MicroShunt is a surgical device that helps to drain eye fluid and reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) whose IOP is not controlled when using maximum tolerated glaucoma medications. “This approval for PR

HCA Healthcare, Inc., one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to sell four of its hospitals in Georgia for approximately $950,000,000. HCA Healthcare has agreed to sell the following hospitals in north Georgia and Macon to Piedmont Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia: Eastside Medical Center, a 310 bed hospital in Snellville, Georgia Cartersvill

obp, a leading global developer of single-use, self-contained, cordless illuminating medical devices, today announced the launch of a new spin-off company called obp Surgical Corporation, which will continue to reinvent the everyday tools that surgeons rely on by integrating single-use LED lighting technology into unique intracavity cordless devices. “It’s clear to obp’s leadership team that pursuing a spin-off is the most compelling path forward for the company&md