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Mount Sinai Neurosurgeon Uses Next-Generation Augmented CaptiView Virtual Reality Tool During Surgery

Joshua Bederson, MD, Professor and System Chair for the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System, is the first neurosurgeon to use CaptiView – a microscope image injection system from Leica Microsystems that overlays critical virtual reality imaging directly onto the brain when viewed through the eyepiece, known as the ocular, during surgery.

4 Aug 2016

AT&T to Provide Network Connectivity to Biotricity’s Wearable Medical Devices

Biotricity, Inc., a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company dedicated to delivering innovative, biometric remote monitoring solutions, has selected AT&T, Inc. as its preferred network partner for providing connectivity to the company’s medical devices.

3 Aug 2016

Advanced ICU Care Announces Launch of New, Census-Variable Telemetry Services

Advanced ICU Care, the nation’s leading provider of high-acuity telehealth services, announced the launch of its new, census-variable telemetry offering.

3 Aug 2016

TransEnterix Reports First Sale of ALF-X Surgical Robotic System to Humanitas Hospital in Italy

TransEnterix, Inc., a medical device company that is pioneering the use of robotics to improve minimally invasive surgery, today announced the first global sale of its ALF-XⓇ Surgical Robotic System to Humanitas Hospital in Milan, Italy.

2 Aug 2016

Fallon Health Partners with Healthsense to Provide Passive Remote Monitoring for NaviCare Members

Fallon Health, a Massachusetts-based health insurer and care provider, has partnered with Minneapolis-based Healthsense to become the first health plan in the U.S. to provide passive, remote monitoring for its NaviCare members.

2 Aug 2016

Robots to Connect Medical Scientists Working on Similar Molecules in Real Time

Sharing research data or Open Science, aims to accelerate scientific discovery, which is of particular importance in the case of new medicines and treatments.

2 Aug 2016

Microswimmer Robots Developed for Non-Invasive Arterial Surgery

A team of researchers from Drexel University headed by MinJun Kim, PhD, a professor in the College of Engineering, have succeeded in accomplishing a task that could be appreciated by both Michael Phelps and sci-fi fans.

29 Jul 2016

Norman Regional Uses Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots to Reduce Infection Rates in Hospital

Norman Regional Health System has four new team members who will help keep patients safe by disinfecting hospital surfaces – and they’ll do it all without hands! It’s the Essentia Health first health system in Norman toutilize Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots™, which have been credited by other healthcare facilities across the U.S. for helping them reduce their infection rates.

29 Jul 2016

Smith & Nephew Announces First Robotics-Assisted Total Knee Replacement Procedure

Smith & Nephew, the global medical technology business, today announces the first surgical case of its robotics-assisted total knee replacement procedure.

29 Jul 2016

InfoBionic's MoMe Kardia System Receives 2016 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation

Based on its recent analysis of the arrhythmia detection and monitoring market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes InfoBionic with the 2016 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation.

28 Jul 2016