News and Notes

Today several of the world’s ventilator manufacturers announce a newly formed Ventilator Training Alliance (VTA) to support frontline medical providers to access a centralized repository of ventilator training. The content can be found in a mobile app managed by...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA and CHICAGO, IL—ECRI, an independent trusted voice in healthcare improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care, and RLDatix, the leading global provider of intelligent patient safety solutions, announce a new collaboration to meet...

Ford is expanding its efforts to design and produce urgently needed medical equipment and supplies for health care workers, first responders and patients fighting coronavirus. In addition to the current production of more than 3 million face shields in Plymouth,...

OxyStrap International Inc., (https://oxystrap.com/), a San Diego, CA-based health innovation company, which manufactures fitness trackers, announced today that it has shifted its manufacturing focus to produce effective N95 equivalent protective face masks, which are...

Royal Philips recently provided an update on its plans to double the production of its hospital ventilators by May 2020 and achieve a four-fold increase by the third quarter of 2020. This plan builds on Philips’ initial production increase in the first three months of...

In recent months, lives around the globe have been affected by COVID-19. In early March a coalition of midwest engineers assembled a team with individuals from UW Hospital, UW Makerspace, Delve, and Midwest Prototyping to design an open-source medical face shield...