News and Notes

Dr. Safa S. Kassab has become the first surgeon in the United States to perform a total knee replacement using Pixee Medical’s Knee+ NexSight augmented reality (AR) glasses – a wearable heads-up display that delivers real-time surgical guidance directly into the...

Bayesian Health today announced that its sepsis flagging device has received FDA 510(k) clearance—the first continuous AI sepsis monitor ever to do so. Early sepsis detection is a core module within Bayesian’s real-time clinical intelligence platform, which...

Perioperative nurses and surgical professionals from across the Southeast are invited to gather for one of the region’s premier educational and networking events as the 2026 Southeast Councils of periOperative Nurses Conference comes to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Nov. 13-15, 2026.

Launched in 2025 with an inaugural class of 243 students across seven high schools and 11 middle schools in six Northeast Tennessee school districts, the Ballad Health Academy serves as both a unique career development program for high school students across the Appalachian Highlands and as a forward-thinking strategy to address workforce shortages in healthcare by creating local talent pipelines. Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the program takes an innovative school-within-a-school approach to create accelerated pathways from high school into healthcare careers.

Water vapor technology applies the thermal energy stored in sterile water vapor to ablate targeted prostate tissue via a transurethral procedure, potentially minimizing life-altering side effects.