Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
Masimo's MightySat Medical is the first FDA-cleared pulse oximeter available to consumers without a prescription, which could disrupt the market for the notoriously inaccurate at-home devices.
MediView’s technologies utilize AR to provide clinicians with 3D “X-ray vision” guidance during minimally invasive procedures and surgeries, while also offering remote collaboration.
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, hospitals are making moves to stay alive and avoid “facing death by a thousand cuts,” according to a new report from financial services company PwC. Over the next decade, health systems will rebuild into four new models that are expected to dominate the provider space, PwC predicted.
Physicians at the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will now have access to a mobile tool that monitors patients' progress during pregnancy.
Years ago, one of the nation’s top hospital systems took a radical stance—it wasn’t going to play the merger and acquisition game to continue growing. Instead, Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minnesota, decided it was going to form an extensive network of providers to work with and focus on fixing the fragmentation problems plaguing the healthcare space.
Respiratory tract infection (RTI) patients who were prescribed antibiotics during virtual visits rated their physicians better than patients who weren’t prescribed any antibiotics.
Rising healthcare costs aren’t good for workers or employers, which wind up shouldering higher costs even though employers could negotiate better prices with insurance companies, NPR and ProPublica reported.
A woman’s Fitbit health data was used to arrest her 90-year-old stepfather accused of killing her and staging her death to look like a suicide, according to a report by USA Today.
