July 2020 - Page 2 of 5 - BioMedWire (BMW)

MondayJul 27, 2020 3:00 pm

Smartphones Can Now Accurately Test Sperm Count

Low sperm count is one of the primary causes of male infertility, according to the World Health Organization, and the issue has been globally neglected for a very long time. However, researchers are developing smartphone apps that can efficiently detect low sperm count in men. The Invention of a Rapid Infertility Diagnostic Tool Researchers from Harvard University have successfully invented a rapid infertility diagnostic tool attached to the smartphone. The attachment itself is compatible with the app created to count the sperm numbers and measure its motility. However, while the researchers from Harvard were not the first team to develop…

MondayJul 27, 2020 10:00 am

Risks of Not Filing Medical Device Patents Correctly

You must try to avoid patent mistakes for any new device, especially in the field of healthcare. As some small inventors may wish to be recognized for coming up with new inventions in future, they need to be cautious. Caution is needed especially in securing and crafting the ownership of the property. Here are some of the mistakes that may be made, making you lose patent rights. Single-Filing a Medical Device Patent The invention of a medical start-up Theranos, a blood testing device, reached the unicorn status in the venture community market. However, the issues related to its patent were…

FridayJul 24, 2020 3:00 pm

Could Your Medical Device Be Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks?

Internet use in the medical industry has tremendously grown over the past years. The continual propagation of mobile medical devices and the amount of data in hospitals are trends medical device manufacturers should keep in mind. Also, tracking cyber-security trends should be the main aim of device manufacturers due to an increased number of cyber-attacks on medical devices. Since lives are at stake, the FDA has stepped in to guide manufacturers to ensure the safety of medical devices in the global internet world. It has called for the protection of these devices as hackers may hack them for malicious purposes.…

FridayJul 24, 2020 11:37 am

Digital Therapeutics Platform Builder DarioHealth Corp. (NASDAQ: DRIO) Makes International Leap with Williams Medical Partnership

DarioHealth Corp. is providing innovative solutions to medical patient care through its technology enabled remote patient monitoring platform (“RPM”), which it believes will save medical providers time while allowing them to better control care The company announced its first two remote patient monitoring agreements in North America last month On July 20, DarioHealth announced a strategic partnership that will allow the company to expand the reach of its remote patient care management internationally, targeting markets in the United Kingdom and Ireland The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made tech enabled remote patient care increasingly popular as a general solution to maintaining…

FridayJul 24, 2020 9:45 am

COVID-19 Outbreak Causes Inventor to Regret Not Patenting the Handwashing Bucket

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, a lot of industries have come to a standstill and most institutions and research centers have scrambled to look for ways to control and curb this deadly pandemic. Interestingly, the pandemic has also brought a lot of regrets to some inventors. The regret comes as a result of not owning the rights of their inventions, especially now when the whole world is struggling to fight the virus. The Handwashing Bucket Inventor is Full of Regret Veronica Beckeo is one of the inventors who have lamented as their ideas were not patented before the outbreak of…

ThursdayJul 23, 2020 3:20 pm

Mistakes Medical Device Makers Need to Avoid

When coming up with medical devices, you need to be very cautious and innovative. Getting FDA regulatory approval for these devices is not always a walk in the park, and the approval process to market may be very delicate. To make that journey smoother, here are some of the mistakes that medical device innovators need to avoid. Never Anticipate Your First Roll Out to Be Magnificent Medical device start-ups try to give their products every possible feature they ever dreamt of. However, this overzealousness may lead device makers to include some features that are not critical to the way the…

ThursdayJul 23, 2020 10:00 am

VA Plans to Digitize Its Electronic Health Records

With the emergence of new technology, the Veterans Affairs Department in on the verge of overhauling its electronic health record system. As innovations are coming into existence, there is also a need to digitize the health records. Besides, the department wants to examine if the robotic automation of health records can work. The first deployment of the electronic health record was planned to take place at Mann-Grandstaff Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, in March. Congress later pushed the launch to July, but it did not materialize. However, the launch did not take place in July as the Veteran Affairs Department…

WednesdayJul 22, 2020 2:35 pm

Wearable Tech Could Play a Strong Role in Health If These Issues Are Addressed

Wearable technology is one of the latest and upcoming trends in medicine. Patients’ outcomes, population and other emerging trends are also going to improve due to the growing prominence of the fitness tracking device. This fitness tracking device is also gaining pace in the U.S. as most adults are using it in tracking their fitness habits. However, if the issues below are addressed, then wearable technology will play a smart role in improving the health sector. The wearable Market Should Start Growing at a Steady Pace Recent surveys show that 25.1% of adults are the only ones using fitness tracking…

WednesdayJul 22, 2020 11:24 am

Predictive Oncology Inc. (NASDAQ: POAI) Finalizes Acquisition Deal Expected to Revolutionize Role of AI-Driven Predictive Models

POAI completes acquisition designed to accelerate commercialization of proprietary AI-driven drug discovery, development Strategic move allows for one-of-a-kind, end-to-end ‘discovery machine’ that can rapidly generate potential therapeutic candidates Company to offer new capability to pharmaceutical company customers in revenue-generating projects later this year Predictive Oncology (NASDAQ: POAI), a knowledge-driven company focused on applying artificial intelligence (“AI”) to personalized medicine, has completed its acquisition of Quantitative Medicine (“QM”) (http://ibn.fm/vqmwL). POAI signed a letter of intent to acquire QM, a biomedical analytics and computational biology company, in January (http://ibn.fm/4iRTV). The strategic move should accelerate the commercialization of Predictive Oncology’s proprietary AI-driven drug discovery and…

WednesdayJul 22, 2020 10:00 am

Promises and Challenges of Machine Learning and Data Science in Health

You may have heard about machine learning and data science in different aspects of life, such as in how your insurance premiums are determined. But, did you know that machine learning and data science are playing an increasing role in public health? Read on and learn about this exciting development. What is Big Data? It refers to the massive amount of information, such as data from administrative health claims and biobanks, which is available to researchers in a de-identified fashion. Furthermore, it is termed as significant due to the undiluted number of people represented in hundreds of millions and also…