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Heartpoint Global Hopes To Disrupt Congenital Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment With Minimally Invasive DeviceMedCity News - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | To correct high blood pressure of the pulmonary artery, which can arise from congenital defects of the heart, an artificial heart ucan cost upwards of $190,000. Heart disease accounted for about one in five deaths in 2020 in theUnited States. Even minimally invasive pulmonary artery banding — a surgical technique that has been in use since Harry Truman was president — requires access to the chest cavity. A new treatment under development by HeartPoint Global seeks to provide a minimally invasive alternative to current treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with Congenital Heart Disease.A device delivered through the leg would cost only...
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MD Anderson’s Tech Puts Replay on Fast Path to Clinic With TCR NK Cell TherapiesMedCity News - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | A slew of biotech companies are pursuing research that could overcome limitations of current cell therapies. Startup creator Replay has a new subsidiary pushing toward the front of the pack with a therapeutic candidate on track to start its first human test this summer—about one year after Replay emerged from stealth. It owes this rapid progress to a cell therapy pioneer’s technology that has already been de-risked by a big pharmaceutical company. Replay calls itself a genome writing company. With operations split between San Diego and London, the private equity-backed business launched last July with $55 million and a suite of technologies...
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Veradigm, Healthverity Uses Registry Data for Chronic Disease ResearchDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | February 14, 2023 – Health IT vendor Veradigm, formerly Allscripts, announced a collaboration with healthcare data ecosystem HealthVerity that will leverage registry data to advance chronic disease research. The partnership will bridge Veradigm’s cardiology and metabolic registries with consumer data collected by HealthVerity, offering clinical researchers access to research-ready data. The Veradigm Cardiology Registry boasts over 102 million patient records representing more than 19.9 million unique patients, making it one of the largest outpatient cardiovascular quality improvement registries. The registry follows cardiac patients over time, monitoring essential measures such as demographics, plan of care, cardiac events and comorbidities, exams, procedures, lab...
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3 Care Orgs Tap EHR Implementations for Clinical Workflow OptimizationDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | – With high levels of clinician burnout across the care continuum, healthcare organizations are leveraging EHR implementations for clinical workflow optimization. FAMILY CLINIC MOVES TO ECLINICALWORKS SYSTEM FOR SCALABILITY Care Choice Family Clinic, PLLC in Plano, TX, will implement a health IT system from EHR vendor eClinicalWorks’ to customize workflows and improve operational efficiency. The implementation is set to allow the new family practice to deliver comprehensive patient care and scale as needed. Care Choice Family Clinic cares for patients two years old and up, focusing on primary care, sick visits, and minor urgent care. “I had experience with eClinicalWorks at...
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Readers Write: Faster Horses? Let’s Think DifferentHIStalk - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Daily Reads/ HIStalk | |
 | Faster Horses? Let’s Think Different By Stuart Hanson Stuart Hanson, MBA is CEO of Avaneer Health of Chicago, IL. American industrialist and business magnate Henry Ford is purported to have said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” The same could be said when it comes to what it’s going to take to transform the US healthcare system, one of the most administratively complex in the world. When compared to other high-income nations, we spend the most, yet have poorer outcomes. While we have many initiatives in place to fix our current administrative...
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Acoustic Stimulation for InsomniaMedgadget - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Medgadget | |
 | Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have tested a closed-loop acoustic stimulation neurotechnology in its ability to treat insomnia. The device in question has been developed by Cereset, a medtech company headquartered in Arizona. Insomnia is not just unpleasant, but can have significant long-term health consequences, including an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes. This technology works by monitoring brain waves through scalp sensors and then translating these waves into auditory tones that are played back to the wearer through ear buds. The researchers describe the technology as “allowing the brain to listen to itself”, leading [...]...
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Self-Assembling Peptides as a BioinkMedgadget - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Medgadget | |
 | Researchers at Rice University have developed a bioprinting method that uses self-assembling peptides as a bioink. The technique involves using “multidomain peptides” that are hydrophobic at one end and hydrophilic at the other. When the peptides encounter water, they flip over each other to create hydrophobic sandwich structures that stack together to form fibers, creating the base structure of the printed hydrogel. This self-assembly helps the printed material to rapidly form a structure, and it will also reform after deformation. What makes the peptides highly suited for use in implanted constructs is their track record of safe use in the [...]...
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KLAS: What Impact Do Automated Prior Authorization Solutions Provide?HIT Consultant - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant | |
 | What You Should Know:– Prior authorization is mandated by payers to ensure that certain clinical procedures and medications being ordered are necessary. To alleviate the heavy administrative burden this requirement causes, healthcare organizations have adopted automated prior authorization solutions.– For this report, KLAS interviewed 30 respondents from 26 unique organizations to understand their experiences using these solutions and what outcomes they have seen.Understanding the Impact Automated Prior Authorization Solutions ProvideThis report is a perception study designed to help readers understand where the automated prior authorization market is and what outcomes organizations using automated prior authorization are seeing. To gather these perspectives, KLAS...
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Hurdle, CloudLIMS Partner to Augment Diagnostic Lab CapabilitiesHIT Consultant - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant | |
 | What You Should Know:– Hurdle (a Chronomics Inc. brand), a global bio-infrastructure platform that powers end-to-end diagnostics for life sciences, labs and healthcare providers, and CloudLIMS, a leading SOC 2 compliant and ISO 9001:2015 certified lab informatics provider, announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership marking the first integration between a Diagnostic as a Service (DaaS) platform and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) LIMS provider.– The partnership brings together Hurdle’s remote diagnostic platform and CloudLIMS’s secure, purpose-built diagnostics LIMS to empower labs with the ability to offer at-home tests, and manage lab processes and data efficiently.Helping Diagnostic Labs Stay...
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RTLS Can Enhance the Patient Experience, Staff Safety, and Workflow Operations in 2023HIT Consultant - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant | |
 | Scott Hondros, MHA, SCPM, VP of Professional Services at CenTrakAlthough the healthcare industry has shown significant resilience, the byproduct of the pandemic has amplified staff stressors across all operational and clinical roles. In a study conducted in 2022, more than one-third (34%) of the participating registered nurses (RN) stated that it was likely they would leave bedside nursing by the end of the year. Almost half (44%) cited both burnout and high-stress environments as their main reasons to retire or pursue other careers. As staff shortages increase, so do workloads. Forty-three percent of the nurses that responded to Hospital IQ’s recent survey...
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