News and Notes

Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) launched a new web section “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Emergency Use Authorizations for Medical Devices” to help make it easier for the public to access...

https://ortoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/AugmedicsxvisionSpineSystem3DARSurgery30SecondClip.mp4   Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush announced that Dr. Frank Phillips, Professor and Director of the Division of Spine Surgery and the Section of Minimally Invasive...

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced it has once again joined forces with the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) to help further the adoption of telehealth across the industry, demonstrating its commitment to...

SGNA Standards of Infection Control in Reprocessing of Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopes states: “Visual inspection is an essential step to make sure the endoscope is visibly clean (AAMI, 2015; Rutala et al., 2008). According to Peterson (2017), all endoscopes and...

Enexor Health Systems announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an Emergency Use Authorization for the immediate delivery and use of a new ventilator, the X-VENT. Enexor will start delivering ventilators to hospitals within a few days....