Covid-19 has prompted a rapid implementation of new technological advancement into the traditional healthcare industry. Along with telemedicine, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, virtual reality (VR) has found its niche...
2020 was undoubtedly defined by Covid-19. For the global medtech industry the pandemic had many knock-on effects, both in terms…
The Government of the UK has opened a new walk-through testing centre for Covid-19 in Niddrie, Edinburgh, Scotland. The new facility, which has been opened…
Healthcare clinic CityHealth Urgent Care in the US has launched a new in-home test kit for Covid-19 patients to conduct tests at home. Each In-Home…
Axonics Modulation Technologies has acquired UK-based Contura and its lead product Bulkamid, a urethral bulking agent used in the treatment…
US legal experts have warned that Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) requirements from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may…
BioIQ and Assurance Scientific Laboratories have entered a partnership to bring over-the-counter (OTC) RT-PCR Covid-19 testing to market. The direct-to-consumer…
NuVasive has acquired Simplify Medical, which develops the Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc for cervical total disc replacement (cTDR), in a…
Insightin Health, a company that delivers healthcare guidance, announced in February 2021 that it had raised $12m to develop artificial intelligence (AI) capable of improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare…
In H1 2020, the cardiovascular medical device market showed a significant decline in monthly revenues, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, monthly revenues for this space rebounded in H2 2020…
On 18 February 2021, RhythMedix announced the launch of its newest-generation wearable cardiac monitor, the RhythmStar. This device boasts cellular connectivity and joins a roster of wearable cardiac devices already…
Covid-19 has prompted a rapid implementation of new technological advancement into the traditional healthcare industry. Along with telemedicine, machine learning,...
The UK may use the NHS app as a digital Covid-19 certificate for people to prove they have been vaccinated against or tested negative for...
Google and Ascension have announced the expansion of their pilot project to launch Care Studio, a tool to help clinicians organise patients’ electronic health records...
A multidisciplinary consortium of European academic centres and companies has formed to develop a living model of the pancreas to enable better testing of diabetes...
The effect of skin pigmentation on pulse oximeter results
With low blood oxygenation being one of the main symptoms that characterise Covid-19, there has been a surge in the over-the-counter purchasing of pulse oximeters. According to GlobalData’s influencer tracker,…