Press Releases
31 October 2024
athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for medical practices and health systems nationwide, today announced the launch of Ambient Notes, an innovative solution designed to reduce the burden of clinical note documentation by integrating ambient listening and generative AI technology directly into the athenaOne experience. Currently in limited release with select customers, this new solution builds on athenahealth’s continued commitment to empowering cli
Read more...30 October 2024
IKS Health, a provider of healthcare enablement solutions, announced its partnership with Radiology Partners (RP), a leading radiology practice in the U.S., through its owned and affiliated practices. By leveraging IKS Health’s innovative Gen AI-powered Care Enablement Platform, this collaboration aims to enable RP to streamline processes, improving access to critical imaging services. Technology-driven solutions will allow RP’s dozens of practices and more than 3,900 radiologists
Read more...With an unwavering commitment to transforming lives, Fresh Start Surgical Gifts is excited to announce a groundbreaking partnership with UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) in Worcester, MA. This collaboration brings Fresh Start's life-changing reconstructive surgeries to the East Coast for the first time, offering vital services and medical care to underprivileged youth at no cost. Treatment for pediatric patients who require dental and orthodontic care due to their craniofacial diagnosis will
Read more...29 October 2024
Distalmotion’s Dexter Surgical Robot opens an entire new era for soft tissue robotics in the outpatient setting and ambulatory surgery centers that will have immediate benefit for patients. Distalmotion has been granted De Novo approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the Dexter Surgical Robot for adult inguinal hernia repair. This significant milestone marks another step forward in Distalmotion’s mission to empower robotic surgery
Read more...MicroPort ® MedBot™ (HKSE:2252) announced today that the company successfully completed 6 robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy procedures in the Republic of Angola. The surgical cases were performed by Dr. Vipul Patel, a worldrenowned robotic urologist surgeon for his contributions to the field of robotic-assisted surgery and one of the most experienced robotic surgeons in the world having personally performed over 18,000 robotic prostatectomies, and his surgical
Read more...28 October 2024
Takeda and Boston Medical Center (BMC) today announced a new collaboration focused on identifying innovative solutions that can reduce hard-to-abate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the health care sector. The collaboration between Takeda and BMC aims to reduce the GHG emissions caused by disposal of regulated medical waste, such as pharmaceutical packaging and single-use plastics, which are among the most difficult environmental challenges facing the industry. The effort will also seek
Read more...Corvia Medical, Inc, a company dedicated to transforming the treatment of heart failure, today announced impressive three-year results from its REDUCE LAP-HF II randomized clinical trial confirming safety and sustained efficacy of the Corvia® Atrial Shunt in selected heart failure patients with preserved (HFpEF) or mildly reduced (HFmrEF) ejection fraction. The results were published in The American Heart Journal. REDUCE LAP-HF II is the world's first phase III trial to eval
Read more...CorroHealth, a leading provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions to health systems and health plans, announced it has signed definitive agreements for a strategic investment from Patient Square Capital (Patient Square), a dedicated health care investment firm. Current shareholders, including investment funds affiliated with global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG), TT Capital Partners, Sanaka Group, and CorroHealth management, will remain investors, with Patient Square and Carly
Read more...25 October 2024
NextGen Healthcare, a leading provider of innovative healthcare technology solutions, and OSIS, a non-profit technology services organization, today announced an enhanced premier strategic partnership to help Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Community Health Centers (CHCs) optimize technology for better patient outcomes and efficient government compliance. OSIS adopted NextGen Healthcare as its Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendor of choice in 2007. As one of NextGen
Read more...25 October 2024
BrainSpec, the comprehensive software platform enabling virtual biopsies of the brain, has released findings from recent research studies that expand the historic focus on quantitative imaging. 65 individuals with a history of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) participated in this research to investigate the frequency of abnormal findings in the brain using various FDA-cleared image processing tools and programs. Among advanced neuroimaging techniques, such as Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MR
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