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Michael Batista

Michael Batista is a Baltimore-based editor motivated by disruptive innovation at the intersection of technology and healthcare. He holds a dual B.S. in materials and bioengineering from MIT and conducted graduate work in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins in the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design. At Johns Hopkins, Michael was involved in early stage medical technology development before diving into the world of digital healthcare. Since 2014, he has been the CEO of the digital health startup, Quantified Care (https://www.quantifiedcare.com/).

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Public Health

Philips Releases 2018 Future Health Index Report

November 20th, 2018 As of last week, all three parts of this year's Future Health Index (FHI) by Philips are now available. Started two years ago, the FHI has previously measured perceptions of how healthcare is experienced from the points of view of both patients and providers in different countries (2016) and compared these perceptions to the reality of...

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Philips and Augusta University Partner to Improve Patient Care: Interview with Philips CMO

November 6th, 2018 A few months ago, we heard about how Philips and Augusta University Health are working together in a long-term partnership for the co-development of clinical solutions such as a hybrid operating room. To learn more about the partnership as well as the unique, hybrid operating room into which multiple technologies and procedures have been...

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CooperVision's Contacts Combat Eye Fatigue from Digital Screen Usage (Interview)

October 30th, 2018 A recent study by OnePoll, conducted on behalf of CooperVision, manufacturer of soft contact lenses, found that 49 percent of Americans "feel society has become more digital and screen-oriented in the past five years." The trend is not unexpected with 74 percent of employed Americans using a computer at their job and 7 in 10 Americans...

Geriatrics

Vayyar Imaging Launches Walabot Home, A Senior Care Smart Home Device for Fall Detection

October 25th, 2018 This week, Vayyar Imaging, a player in 3D sensor imaging technology, announced the launch of Walabot HOME, a senior care smart home device. Walabot HOME is designed for fall detection without the use of wearables, through the use of low-power radio wave technology similar to Wi-Fi. Avoiding the need for cameras, the system allows...

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Demystifying Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: Interview with Nicholson Center CTO Dr. Roger Smith

October 16th, 2018 Continuing our series of conversations with healthcare thought leaders about the burgeoning world of blockchain technologies, Medgadget spoke with Chief Technology Officer of the Nicholson Center, Dr. Roger Smith. The Nicholson Center is a medical research and training center founded in 2001, which operates within the Florida...

Neurology

RightEye Secures FDA 510(k) Clearance for Eye-Tracking Platform

October 10th, 2018 A couple months ago, Medgadget reviewed RightEye's EyeQ vision tests and training tools in addition to speaking with Co-Founder and CSO Dr. Melissa Hunfalvay. As a platform to help providers assess eyesight, brain and reading disorders, and performance issues, RightEye captures much of its data using state-of-the-art eye tracking...

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Feed.fm Brings Music to Mobile Health with Launch of Health.fm: Interview with CEO Jeff Yasuda

October 8th, 2018 Studies have shown that listening to music can have clinically-beneficial side effects from lowering cortisol hormone levels that cause stress and anxiety to correlating highly with verbal memory improvement in stroke patients when compared to patients not listening to music. Seeking to leverage its existing music expertise and enter...

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SleepScore Lab's Non-Contact, No Hardware Sleep Monitoring System: Product Review and Interview with CEO

October 5th, 2018 It has been less than a year since Medgadget tried out SleepScore Lab's SleepScore Max, the company's second generation of sleep monitoring devices, following the S+ system. Today, we're onto their third offering: the SleepScore App. While both S+ and SleepScore Max systems paired hardware and software in a combined offering, the latest...

Pathology

Proscia Raises $8.3M Series A to Expand AI-Driven Digital Pathology Platform

October 1st, 2018 This week, Proscia, a Philadelphia-based digital pathology company started by entrepreneurs from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pittsburgh, announced the completion of an $8.3 million Series A financing led by Flybridge Capital Partners. Other participants in the round included Emerald Development Managers, Fusion Fund,...

Thoracic Surgery

Philips Partners with Augusta University Health on Hybrid OR for Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung CA

September 26th, 2018 According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), one in four cancer deaths are attributable to lung cancer. This is higher than the combined rate of deaths from breast, prostate, and colon cancers, according to ACS statistics. One factor driving these outcomes is the challenge of identifying and diagnosing small tumors within the...

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EverSleep Wearable Sleep Tracker: Product Review and Interview with CEO

September 21st, 2018 Readers might recall the 2017 Indiegogo campaign by SomnoHealth to create EverSleep, a wearable sleep tracker with built-in oxygenation monitoring. The campaign reached 224% of its original goal in addition to receiving a $50k Arrow Electronics Flash Funding Grant and recognition as a 2017 National Sleep Foundation SleepTech 2017...

Upcoming conferences

april

22aprallday23allday2nd Annual Conference on orthopedics and Osteoporosis 2019Barcelona, Spain

23aprallday24alldayThe Medical Device & IoT SummitBoston, MA, USA

24aprallday26allday8th Digital Marketing for Medical Devices WestSan Diego, CA, USA

Event Details

Built on a foundation of seven years of timely and informative content the 8th Digital Marketing for Medical Devices West conference is an integral part of ExL Events’ industry-leading Digital Marketing for Medical Devices series. Organizations, both large and small, will share insights on how they are communicating to their market about the groundbreaking devices they offer. This conference is designed to provide tactical presentations that can serve as a roadmap to implementing similar programming at your organization.

Top Five Reasons to Attend

1. Network with other medical device marketers who are facing similar challenges and opportunities so you can learn from one another in a more casual setting.

2. Learn about recent successes and failures presented by stakeholders who lived through them in order to identify new opportunities and proactively anticipate roadblocks

3. Participate in discussions around integrating sales and marketing to develop more cohesive outreach, reduce duplicative work and open communication to ensure departments are learning from one another

4. Demonstrate value in a meaningful way to key customer bases, whether they be financially-driven executives at hospitals, clinically-driven surgeons, and healthcare providers, or patients who are motivated by several different factors

5. Participate in the industry’s leading event series that provides you with unparalleled networking opportunities, insights you can’t get anywhere else, and access to vendors and solution providers who can help you develop and execute marketing strategies that stand out

LEARN MORE >>> https://goo.gl/W5U85k

Time

april 24 (Wednesday) - 26 (Friday)

Location

The Westgate Hotel

1055 Second Avenue San Diego, CA 92101

Organizer

ExL Events

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may

01mayallday02allday5th Human Factors & User Experience for Medical Device DesignSan Diego, CA, USA

Event Details

This premier marcus evans event will bring together the foremost leaders within the human factors and usability engineering space to identify techniques and strategies for greater usability testing and risk management activities to ensure optimal product safety.

Learn from Key Practical Case Studies:

Streamline strategies for risk management activities to improve overall device design
Leverage usability testing early in the product development cycle to ensure a successful validation process
Assess existing and forthcoming regulatory impacts to best meet compliance standards
Incorporate different technologies, wearables, and mobile devices to enhance the user experience and interface
Establish internal alignment between design and human factors teams to improve product development

Speaker Panel:

Tressa J. Daniels, Senior Manager User Experience Design and Human Factors Engineering, Becton Dickinson
Rob Carranza, New Product and Lifecycle Project Director, J&J Medical Devices
Mark Guarraia, Head of Design, User Experience and Prototypes, Novo Nordisk
Sandhya S. Pillalamarri, Senior Director, User Experience COE, Insulet Corporation
Kevin M. Ten Brink Manager Human Factors, Intuitive
Arlesa Hubbard Risk Manager, Sanofi
Sam Psota, Senior Usability Engineer, Roche Diagnostics

Who Should Attend:

marcus evans invites Senior Executives, Engineers and Scientists from Medical Device and Life Science Firms with responsibilities in and job titles related to:

Human Factors / Human Factors Engineer(ing)
User Experience Design / User Design
Usability / User Experience / User Interface / UX / UI
Industrial Design Design Controls/Engineer
Product Development
Research & Development (R&D) Engineer
Device Engineering
Quality / Quality Control / Quality Assurance / Quality Engineer
Regulatory Affairs

Interested? If you feel that you are a good fit for this conference please visit the event website: http://bit.ly/2Y4GVQx

For more information simply send an email to melinih@marcusevanscy.com

Time

may 1 (Wednesday) - 2 (Thursday)

Organizer

marcus evans

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07mayallday09allday4th Annual Medical Device Project & Portfolio ManagementMinneapolis, MN, USA

Event Details

This premier marcus evans conference will permit attendees the opportunity to enhance practices for effective prioritization and stabilization of projects and portfolios.

Key Topics:

Bolster project portfolio organization through a holistic approach
Optimize ROI through a strategic approach to portfolio management
Enhance prioritization evaluation through streamlined decision making
Enable innovation through improvements to portfolio agility
Foster project strength by aligning goals with overall portfolio

Current Speakers Include:

Garth Andrews, Senior Vice President, Global PMO and TOG, Elekta AB
Gurpreet Kaur, Senior Director, BI and OTT and PMO, Integra LifeSciences
Amir Khamseh, Head-PMO, Surgical Heart Valve Therapy, Edwards Lifesciences
Jacyln Peterson, Senior Director, Enterprise Operations Strategy and PMO, Medtronic
Rushi Potdar, Director, R&D Strategy & Business Ops, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices
Kathleen Whanger, Director, Program Management Office – Surgical, Teleflex Incorporated
Gary Tarpinian, Director Project Management, Accuray

Who Should Attend:

marcus evans invites VPs, Directors, Senior In-House Counsel, and Managers from:

Portfolio Management
Program Management
Project & Portfolio Management
Business Development & Licensing
Corporate Strategy
Project Management
Strategy & Business Development
Strategic Business & Resource Planning

Interested? If you feel that you are a good fit for this conference please visit the event website: http://bit.ly/2Y7rKWA

For more information simply send an email to melinih@marcusevanscy.com

Time

may 7 (Tuesday) - 9 (Thursday)

Organizer

marcus evans

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08mayallday09allday31st Global Experts Meeting on Neonatal Nursing and Maternal Healthcare, 2019Tokyo, Japan

14mayallday16alldayMIXiii-Biomed 2019 Conference & ExhibitionTel Aviv, Israel

14mayallday16alldayThe MedTech Forum 2019Paris, France

19mayallday21alldayNational Healthcare CFO SummitPalm Beach, FL, USA

Event Details

After another two very successful gatherings last year, marcus evans Summits is proud to announce the 29^th National Healthcare CFO Summit taking place on the 19-21 May 2019 at the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, Palm Beach, FL.

The Summit is the premium forum bringing senior level healthcare finance executives and solution providers together. The healthcare industry continues to undergo a period of disruption and uncertainty, to truly achieve population-health and preventative care, it must get off the heads-in-beds model. It is up to the CFO’s to lead and drive strategy within their organization to ensure that they do so in a financially sustainable way. Our event is a fantastic opportunity to network, participate and discuss with the world’s foremost strategists, thought leaders and trend setters who will deliver visionary keynote presentations, real-life case studies and interactive sessions in an intimate and exquisitely comfortable setting.

At the heart of the event is our unique one-on-one business meetings in which industry service providers are granted access to exclusively C-level, pre-qualified senior financial executives within the largest healthcare organizations across the United States and beyond. Along with this the world’s foremost strategists, thought leaders and trend setters will deliver visionary keynote presentations, real-life case studies and interactive sessions in an intimate and exquisitely comfortable setting.

For more information, please visit our website: http://events.marcusevans-events.com/nationalhealthcarecfo202

or contact Anestis Hadjicostas, Digital Media & PR executive

Email: anestish@marcusevanscy.com

Phone: +35722849421

Time

may 19 (Sunday) - 21 (Tuesday)

Location

EAU PALM BEACH RESORT & SPA

100 S Ocean Blvd, Manalapan, FL 33462-3368

Organizer

marcus evans

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23mayallday24alldayDeep Learning in Healthcare Summit, 2019Boston, MA, USA

30mayallday31allday3rd International Conference on Women Health and Breast Cancer (Women Health-2019)Nice, Italy

Event Details

On behalf of the Organizing and Program Committees we take great pleasure in welcoming academic scientists, researchers, research scholars, students and experts of application fields to Nice, France for the 3^rd edition of Women Health conference to foster the progress in the field by contributing with your expertise to what promises to be a very comprehensive and exciting meeting, and to enjoy the immense unique artistic heritage and wonderful landscape of France.

3^rd International Conference on Women Health and Breast Cancer (Women Health-2019), w

hich will be held during May 30-31, 2019 at Nice, France is now an established event, attracting global participant’s intent on sharing, exchanging and exploring new avenues of Women Health and related research and latest developments. The event will have 5-6 world level (Highly cited class) plenary speakers, established Keynote speakers, active Invited speakers and fresh contributed speakers. In addition, variety of poster presentations along with workshops and special sessions would be interested in audience.

The aim of the Women Health-2019 is to promote quality research and real-world impact in an atmosphere of true international cooperation between scientists by bringing together again the world class researchers, International Communities and Industrial heads to discuss the latest developments and innovations in the fields of Women Health and Breast Cancer.

We sincerely hope that Women Health-2019 serves as an international platform for meeting researchers from around the world, widen professional contact and create new opportunities, including establishing new collaborations.

Time

may 30 (Thursday) - 31 (Friday)

Organizer

Scientific Federation

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june

05junallday07allday3rd International Cancer Conference and Expo, 2019Baltimore, MD, USA

Event Details

With enthusiastic support of our Organizing Committee, we invite you all to participate in the (iCancer 2019) 3^rd International Cancer Conference and Expo as a continuum of our previous successful conference, during March 21-23, 2018 in Philadelphia, USA.

3rd International Cancer Conference and Expo welcomes you as our guest to the City of Baltimore, USA during June 05-07, 2019. iCancer USA 2019 aims in “Driving Innovative Cancer Science Towards Precision Medicine”.

This conference provides a forum for exchange of ideas and authoritative views by eminent personalities in this exciting field, by bringing together Cancer Science, Drug Development, Nanotechnology in Cancer Treatment, Robotic Surgery, Therapies, Oncology, Clinical trials, Cancer imaging, Medical radiation, Cancer detection, Control and Prevention research professionals; Academicians, Doctors, Study sponsors, Related Associations & Societies; Executives from Bio-Engineering, Diagnosis Tools, Medical devices and Pharmaceutical industries around the globe.

The Conference has gained an unrivalled reputation as a global platform for businesses and academicians in terms of addressing Bio-Engineering And Bio-Mechanics In Robotics, Neuro-Oncology, Molecular Pathology, Radiation Oncology, Cancer Proteomics, Cancer Stem Cells, New cancer therapies, Diagnostic issues, haematological rare cancers, International Rare Cancers Initiative, management issues, rare childhood cancers, Diagnostic tools and challenges, Regenerative Medicine, Breast Cancer and its Treatment related issues in the context of meeting the needs of the industry.

iCancer USA 2019 offers unparalleled business, research opportunities and access to new markets in Cancer and Health Care industry. Be on the cutting edge of new and often yet-unreleased information and discover an area that piques your interest.

Join us and witness the booming industry by participating at iCancer USA 2019 and give your career and business access to new opportunities from throughout the world.