The Emergency Nurses Association will bestow the Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Emergency Department with its prestigious Lantern Award. The department is one of only 19 Emergency Departments in the U.S. — and the only one in Illinois — to receive the award for this three-year cycle (2018 – 2021). The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Lantern Award recognizes emergency departments …

Health-Tech Companies in Latest Cedars-Sinai Class Seek to Address Pressing Healthcare Needs, Including Health System Efficiency and Patient Engagement, Through AI and Other Technologies Nine health-tech companies have joined the newest class of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator as they look to develop and refine solutions to some of healthcare’s most pressing challenges, particularly those affecting the experience of patients. The companies, …

Life Spine, a medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets products for the surgical treatment of spinal disorders announced the first surgeries with robotic assisted minimally disruptive placement of the CENTERLINE® Cortical Screw System and the PROLIFT® Expandable Spacer System in an ambulatory surgical center. “Life Spine is dedicated to address and support minimally disruptive technologies such as …

Intuitive Surgical announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted clearance for the company’s fully wristed, 60mm stapler. SureForm 60™, a single-patient use 60mm stapler, offers 120 degrees of fully wristed articulation – an industry first. Surgeons control SureForm 60 through the da Vinci surgeon console, creating an immediate connection between clinical decision-making and instrument action. Combining da Vinci’s tremor filtration …

Boston Scientific Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cryterion Medical, Inc., a privately-held company developing a single-shot cryoablation platform for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). The addition of this cryoballoon platform positions the company as the first to have both cryothermal and radiofrequency (RF) single-shot, balloon-based ablation therapies in its portfolio. Boston Scientific has been an investor in …

Advanced Instruments announced the release of the OsmoTECH Single-Sample Micro-Osmometer. OsmoTECH’s data management capabilities, security features, and embedded web server far surpass the capabilities of other osmometers on the market today. OsmoTECH provides the 21 CFR Part 11 compliance features that GMP environments demand. Plus, the system uses freezing point depression—the gold-standard testing method in osmometry—to provide the accuracy and …

The American Heart Association recently selected Northwestern Medicine as one of six centers to be part of a new, grant-funded national network dedicated to researching and understanding the causes of atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular heartbeat. At Northwestern, a $3.7 million grant will fund research specifically on how atrial fibrillation develops and how it causes stroke, the …

The Clinical Solutions business unit of Harris Healthcare has entered into a Distributor agreement with iWT Health. Under the agreement, Harris Healthcare Clinical Solutions will sell products developed by iWT Health which are complementary to the Clinical Solution group’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) and its existing Novus product line which today includes Novus Meds, Novus ClinDoc and Novus LaunchPad. According …

TSO3 Inc. announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from US regulators for a significant improvement to its STERIZONE® VP4 Sterilizer. The cleared change can improve the customer installation process and reduce start-up costs by significantly reducing the oxygen supply requirements for the system. “We are excited to incorporate this new feature to our STERIZONE® VP4 Sterilizer”, said TSO3 President and CEO …

Varian announced it has received clearances from the U.S. antitrust authorities and the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) on the proposed acquisition of all of the outstanding shares in Sirtex Medical Limited (ASX: SRX) (“Sirtex”). The U.S. antitrust authorities granted early termination of the waiting period under the U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. The German FCO cleared the …