People with intellectual or developmental disabilities are disproportionately likely to visit the emergency department. Unfortunately, when they get there, users often report unsatisfactory care. Those with IDD may have trauma relating to hospitals, can be sensitive to change, encounter discrimination…
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How virtual care can keep pregnant patients safer from COVID-19
This past week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a trove of data suggesting that pregnant patients might be at increased risk for severe illness associated with COVID-19. In light of the statistics, CDC advised that measures…
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Veterans Health Administration to 3D print medical devices
The Veterans Health Administration has entered into a contract with South Carolina-based 3D Systems to establish manufacturing facilities within their hospitals for the production of medical devices. 3D Systems announced in a press release this week that the partnership…
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Clinicians in Singapore develop robot for faster COVID-19 nasal swabbing
A group of clinicians from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Duke-NUS Medical School has partnered Biobot Surgical Pte Ltd, a local company which focuses on medical robotics solutions, to develop a robot that automates…
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Mount Sinai, Omron partner to offer at-home hypertension care
Mount Sinai Health System on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Omron that will offer patients the remote-technology company’s VitalSight home blood pressure-monitoring tool. Dr. Rob Fields, chief medical officer for population health at Mount Sinai, is leading the effort…
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Duke, Rice University are innovating production of protective masks, ventilators
The once seemingly sci-fi promise of 3D printing has been a reality for some time now, and applications of the technology are leading to big advancements – and filling critical needs – during the coronavirus crisis. At Duke University, researchers…
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Volunteers use 3D-printing to support Italian COVID-19 effort
Unable to obtain the original blueprints for the valves because of medical manufacturing regulations, Cristian Fracassi and Alessandro Romaioli of Isannova reverse-engineered one, creating and testing three possible working prototypes. Although going against established protocol, the team were able to produce…
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ChristianaCare, Medtronic join on new project to target technologies, therapies
ChristianaCare will work with Medtronic on a five-year effort to innovate new value-based strategies, collaborating on new approaches to target therapies and technology-enabled intervention on the patients who will benefit most. WHY IT MATTERS Under the new agreement, Wilmington, Delaware-based…
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