Category: News and Notes

A critical focus for the FDA is preventing and mitigating potential medical product shortages. As part of these efforts, we’re taking steps to address potential medical device shortages due to the recent closure of a large sterilization facility in Illinois. We’re working to ensure that safe and effective sterilization of medical devices continues and hospitals, health care providers and patients have access to critical devices.

Masimo announced today FDA clearance of the Rad-67™ Pulse CO-Oximeter® with Spot-check Next...

Imricor signs first commercial contract in the Netherlands for the Advantage-MR system.

Brainlab creates first openly scalable medical robotics platform paired with an efficient software ecosystem

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, has added a new member to its award-winning staff. The facility has invested in Tru-D, “Total Room ultraviolet disinfection,” a UVC disinfection robot that helps keep patients and staff safe from harmful germs.

Over the past four decades, AAAHC has driven quality improvement in ambulatory patient care through a quality-focused, peer-based, and educational accreditation process.

Nearly one in four patients in the study treated with standard of care percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) had residual ischemia after coronary stent implantation intended to relieve severe blockages and improve blood flow

HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, and Galen College of Nursing, one of the largest educators of nurses in the U.S., today announced that HCA Healthcare will become the majority owner of the parent company of Galen.

The Venovo™ venous stent is a flexible nitinol stent specifically designed to reopen blocked iliac and femoral veins in order to maintain adequate blood flow.

DJO, a leading provider of medical technologies designed to get and keep people moving, introduced the ADAPTABLE Surgical Arm at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).

Beyond Clean, a sterile processing education and consulting firm, has announced the creation of a Speakers Bureau, a global resource for multi-disciplinary subject matter expertise in the decontamination, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of medical devices, according to a news release.

New report pinpoints risks from EHRs, mobile health, behavioral health, clinician burnout, and more

Patients at UAB now have access to state-of-the-art robotic surgery
technology.