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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/).

Author's Posts

Medicine

Shift Labs Announces Partnership with Option Care Enterprises for National Use of DripAssist

August 10th, 2018 DripAssist by Shift Labs is an infusion rate monitor that offers a significant improvement in portability, efficiency, durability and ease of use over traditional infusion monitors. The last time Medgadget reported on Shift Labs, the company had just received their CE mark for DripAssist. The device is also FDA approved. Now, Shift Labs...

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Health4TheWorld Named Tech Startup of The Year: Interview with Founders

August 9th, 2018 Health4TheWorld, a Silicon Valley start-up providing education and technology solutions for resource-poor communities worldwide, has been named the 2018 Stevie Silver Award Winner by the American Business Awards for the category of Services. Created in 2002, the Stevie Awards are meant to "honor and generate public recognition of the...

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Genetics Blockchain Platform Shivom Partners with SingularityNET (Interview)

August 7th, 2018 With an abundance of innovation already taking place in the field of genomics, the addition of blockchain technology opens the door to even more opportunities. Blockchain-based genomics platform Shivom and it's partners are positioning themselves to step through that door. Last month, Shivom announced a partnership...

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Improving Medication Compliance with Smart Pill Bottles: Interview with AdhereTech CEO Josh Stein

July 13th, 2018 Compliance with medications is considered one of the best ways for patients to stay on track in managing their health. However, driving adherence is a complex problem influenced by not only medical, but also economic, social, and geographic factors. Ensuring patients continue taking their medications, while understanding and addressing...

Medicine

Noble Announces Launch of AdhereIT Platform for Real-Time, Error-Correcting Self-Injection

July 13th, 2018 Earlier this year, Medgadget spoke with Noble International about the company's self-injection trainers designed to mimic the patient experience with prefilled syringes and autoinjectors. During the interview, we heard about AdhereIT, "a smart attachable device component, available for various autoinjector form factors, that connects...

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G-Med, An International Social Platform for Physicians: Interview with CEO Ilan Ben Ezri

July 10th, 2018 Scientific researchers commonly collaborate beyond their specific institutions, and sometimes even their field, with peers around the world studying related subjects and solving adjacent challenges. Physicians, on the other hand, are typically limited to their immediate practice or physician colleagues for input on complex cases or...

Informatics

Opportunity for Innovation or Potential Data Breach Nightmare? Project SPARK Announced in Ontario

July 5th, 2018 Project SPARK, an initiative recently announced by the government of Ontario, Canada, is seeking to make healthcare data more accessible. As part of Canada's nationwide healthcare system, the government of Ontario has access to a significant number of patient health records, all located within a single database. This is in contrast to...

Informatics

MedCrypt Documents Cybersecurity Concerns and Raises Next Round

June 29th, 2018 Earlier this month at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum, Dr. Christian Dameff, UCSD Emergency Physician and Clinical Informatics Researcher, presented new survey data, commissioned by UCSD and sponsored by MedCrypt, on previously adverse events resulting from medical device cybersecurity breaches. While the full scope of this research...

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The Most Expensive Drugs in America: Interview with GoodRx Co-Founder/Co-CEO Doug Hirsch

June 27th, 2018 United States healthcare policy is currently in the spotlight as the Trump administration seeks to weaken Obamacare with actions such as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which removes the individual mandate that required individuals to carry health insurance. Another focus of the current administration's plan is to lower drug prices with...

News

European Inventor Award 2018 Winners Announced

June 27th, 2018 On June 7th, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced its European Inventor Award 2018 winners at a ceremony in Paris, Sain-Germain-en-Laye. This year's list of winners included four women, the most ever in the history of the award. EPO President Benoît Battistelli stated during the ceremony that, "The inventiveness and creativity...

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Data Integrity with Blockchain Technology: Interview with ULedger CEO Josh McIver

June 21st, 2018 ULedger is a blockchain technology start-up Medgadget had a chance to meet at the "Healthcare on the Blockchain" event earlier this year (See our coverage of Day 1; Day 2) . The company focuses on helping enterprises achieve data integrity through its blockchain platform. Data integrity is particularly important in light of a...

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Event Details

International Conference on Emergency Medicine and Critical Care (Emergency Medicine-2019) is going to be held during July 25-26, 2019 at Rome, Italy. Emergency Medicine-2019 bring upon a new platform to share and discuss all the innovations in the Emergency Medicine diagnosis and treatment.

Emergency Medicine-2019 mainly showcases comprehensive approaches in Emergency Medicine study and research, Emergency Medicine diagnosis and treatments of various specific diseases. The Emergency Medicine Conference revolves around the novel Emergency Medicine drug discovery and development. Emergency Medicine-2019 conference includes Plenary lectures, Keynote lectures and short courses by eminent personalities from around the world in addition to contributed papers both oral and poster presentations.

For any further information, please see our website: https://emergencymedicine.madridge.com/
Conference mainly focuses on:

Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
Pediatric Emergencies
Cardiac Emergencies
Emergency Imaging
Emergency Nursing
Evolution in Emergency Medicine Practices
Gynaecologic/Obstetric Emergencies
Trauma Emergency Medicine
Psychiatric/ Social Emergencies
Anaesthesia
Orthopaedic emergencies/ Musculoskeletal
Toxicological Emergencies
Neurological Emergencies
Dermatologic Emergencies
Wound and Burns
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Send us your queries at emergencymedicine@madridge.com