The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged public health systems nationwide, including local and state immunization registry programs. Immunization registries, or immunization information systems (IIS), have been around for 20+ years and are secure, tried-and-true systems that capture immunization data at the local and state levels. Chances are, if you've received an immunization from a health care provider in your city or state, your immunization information is in your jurisdiction's IIS.

NANO-X IMAGING LTD, an innovative medical imaging technology company, announced today that its single-source Nanox.ARC digital x-ray technology has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”). “Obtaining 510(k) clearance from the FDA for our single-source Nanox.ARC digital x-ray is a significant step forward along our US regulatory pathway,” stated Ran Poliakine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nanox. “We remai

Oneview Healthcare, a global healthcare technology company, today announced the launch of CXP Cloud Enterprise for enhancing the patient care experience within health systems. Deployed on Microsoft Azure with Samsung tablets, this cloud-based platform helps health systems quickly adopt technology for engaging patients, reducing non-clinical demands on care teams and optimizing clinical and operational effectiveness. During the COVID-19 pandemic, care teams have been under intense pr

NeuroPace, Inc. today announced that the company has received Breakthrough Device Designation status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the potential use of its RNS® System to treat idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), which constitutes as many as one third of all epilepsies and is understood to have a strong underlying genetic basis.1 NeuroPace plans to pursue an indication expansion to include drug-resistant idiopathic generalized epilepsy for the RNS Syste

Alvalux Medical, a Belgian medtech wearables company, and its USA subsidiary CicaLux Inc., has been awarded its first patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its CicaLux® product line. The invention (U.S. Patent 10,953,238) is an award-winning, wearable dermal repair system that delivers energized combination therapy to treat skin-related conditions, diseases and disorders. "This patent supports our first award-winning product, CicaLux Energized Scar-C

HOYA Corporation confirms that the five year contract announced on July 6, 2020 for technical collaboration and supply of diagnostics ultrasound systems and ultrasound sensor with Hitachi, will become effective as of March 31st of 2021. EUS consists of a diagnostic ultrasound system and ultrasound flexible endoscopes, and is used for examinations to evaluate the cancer staging in the liver, pancreas and bronchus. PENTAX Medical is a division of HOYA Group delivering endo-imaging sol

Health Logic Interactive Inc., is pleased to announce its wholly owned operating subsidiary, My Health Logic Inc., has entered into a license agreement (the "License Agreement") with an arm's length third party (the "Licensor") pursuant to which My Health Logic has a worldwide, exclusive license to the UAL-Chip, a patent pending lab-on-chip ("LOC") technology that has the potential to be used in a smartphone connected, hand-held device to provide rapid point-

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first in the world non-surgical heart valve to treat pediatric and adult patients with a native or surgically-repaired right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), the part of the heart that carries blood out of the right ventricle to the lungs. The device is designed for patients who have severe pulmonary valve regurgitation (blood leaking backward into the right lower chamber of the heart), a condition that often results from congenital h

Varian announced a new investment in Bend It Technologies Ltd., a medical device company based in Petach Tikva, Israel, that is developing the Bendit® steerable microcatheters for use by interventionalists performing minimally-invasive peripheral vascular procedures. They can be used to deliver diagnostic, embolic, or therapeutical materials into the vasculature. "The Bendit catheters' unique design brings 3D steerability to a new dimension in microcatheter technologies

Activ Surgical™, a digital surgery pioneer, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 10,925,465 B2 for the company's ActivSight enhanced visualization module. The patent, Activ Surgical's first to be issued in the U.S., protects the form factor of ActivSight, deeming it as novel given its ability to power scopes and other existing hardware in the operating room. ActivSight is the company's proprietary har