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Philips introduces new cloud-enabled enterprise imaging informatics and analytics products

Philips Data Management and Interoperability Solutions [Photo courtesy of Philips]

Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHIA) today unveiled new analytics and interoperability offerings at the 2022 HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition.

The two products — Philips HealthSuite Interoperability and Philips Enterprise Performance Analytics Performance Bridge — are pending 510(k) clearance by the FDA, the company said.

The first, Philips HealthSuite Interoperability, is what Philips in a news release called “a fully integrated cloud-enabled Health IT platform to meet diverse workflow needs across the imaging enterprise,” while Performance Bridge “provides operational insights and deep analytics beyond radiology to the cardiology department to enhance efficiencies and help improve effectiveness at the point of care,” according to a news release.

Philips HealthSuite Interoperabili…

HeartBeam picks Triple Ring to co-develop portable heart attack detector

HeartBeam (Nasdaq: BEAT) said today that it has signed a professional services agreement with Triple Ring Technologies to help develop and design its personal, portable heart attack detector.

Santa Clara, California-based HeartBeam said it plans to submit what it calls a “telehealth complete solution 3D vector electrocardiogram (ECG) collection device” for FDA 510(k) clearance in the fourth quarter of 2022.

The company said patients will be able to use the credit-card-sized device at home to help their doctors determine whether chest pain is due to a myocardial infarction (the medical term for a heart attack) using cloud-based software for real-time data transmission.

The project includes device builds for design verification and validation, device packaging and a manufacturing technology transfer. HeartBeam said it is talking with several contract manufacturers.

“The joint effort will be a five-phase expedited device development proje…

Google unveils AI-powered Care Studio Conditions to make sense of patient records

Google Health’s new Care Studio feature, Conditions [Screenshot courtesy of Google]Google Health previewed a new Care Studio feature called Conditions to make electronic health records more accessible and useful for clinicians treating patients.

Powered by artificial intelligence, Conditions can interpret and organize clinical notes stored across different systems for different purposes by different health care professionals.

‘When it comes to writing notes, clinicians use different abbreviations or acronyms depending on their personal preference, what health system they’re a part of, their region and other factors.” Paul Muret VP and GM of Google Health’s Care Studio, wrote yesterday in a blog post. “All of this has made it difficult to synthesize clinical data — until now.”

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Three GE Healthcare leaders outline their vision for AI and the cloud in medtech

GE Healthcare Life Care Solutions Chief Technology Officer Roshy Francis [Photo courtesy of GE Healthcare]Set to spin off from parent company GE (NYSE:GE) next year, GE Healthcare leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help providers improve efficiency, patient outcomes and access to care.

The medtech giant’s offerings include AI-based imaging applications and its Edison Health Services platform.

As part of the Medical Design & Outsourcing cloud conversation series with medtech innovators and leaders, three leaders from GE Healthcare — Life Care Solutions Chief Technology Officer Roshy Francis, SVP and Imaging Solutions GM Rekha Ranganathan and VP and Edison AI and Platform GM Vignesh Shetty — offered their vision for the cloud-enabled future of healthcare.

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Three GE Healthcare leaders outline their vision for AI and the cloud in medtech

GE Healthcare Life Care Solutions Chief Technology Officer Roshy Francis [Photo courtesy of GE Healthcare]

Set to spin off from parent company GE (NYSE:GE) next year, GE Healthcare leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help providers improve efficiency, patient outcomes and access to care with its AI-based imaging applications and Edison Health Services platform.

As part of the Medical Design & Outsourcing cloud conversation series with medtech innovators and leaders, three leaders from GE Healthcare — Life Care Solutions Chief Technology Officer Roshy Francis, SVP and Imaging Solutions GM Rekha Ranganathan and VP and Edison AI and Platform GM Vignesh Shetty — offered their vision for the cloud-enabled future of healthcare.

This conversation has been edited for space and clarity.

MDO: What are some surprising and inspirational examples of what cloud computing enables with regard to medical…

Designing a life-saving device on the cloud

Delta Development’s Autonomous Portable Refrigeration Unit, or APRU [Photo courtesy of Delta Development]

In its quest to build a better blood and vaccine cooler, Delta Development designed its Autonomous Portable Refrigeration Unit (APRU) over the cloud.

Instead of ice-packed coolers like the kind you might take on a camping trip, Tucson, Arizona-based Delta Development’s APRU refrigerates fresh whole blood and vaccines with a built-in battery that lasts for days on a single charge. The APRU also constantly monitors the temperature and can withstand outdoor elements such as water and ice, dust, UV rays and extreme temperatures.

Delta Development Chief Technology Officer Robert Futch [Photo courtesy of Delta Development]

As part of the Medical Design & Outsourcing cloud conversation series with medtech innovators and leaders, Delta…

How the cloud tools behind Google Maps and Photos can advance medtech

Alissa Hsu Lynch is Google Cloud’s global lead for medtech strategy and solutions. [Photo courtesy of Google]

Alissa Hsu Lynch leads medtech strategy and solutions at Google Cloud, previously serving in executive roles at Johnson & Johnson and Bausch Health.

As part of Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s ongoing series of conversations about the cloud’s contributions to the medical device industry and its future, Lynch offered her perspective from the Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary’s cloud-computing business. The following exchange has been edited for clarity and length.

MDO: What are some surprising and inspirational examples of what cloud computing enables with regard to medical device/drug development, manufacturing and capabilities/performance?

LYNCH: First is using data and artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly respond to emerging crises. COVID-19 accelerated …

Microsoft CMO: Using the cloud to improve medtech design, manufacturing and care

David Rhew is Microsoft’s global chief medical officer and VP of healthcare. [Photo courtesy of Microsoft]

Dr. David Rhew, Microsoft’s global chief medical officer and VP of healthcare, has been studying how technology can improve health outcomes for nearly three decades.

His focus has long been on access to care, quality of care, patient safety, improving experiences for patients and providers, and finding ways to improve the overall efficiency of care.

He was previously CMO at Samsung and Zynx Health before that. But his role at Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) — one of the world’s cloud-computing leaders — offers his best opportunity yet to shape the future of medtech.

Rhew spoke with Medical Design & Outsourcing as part of an ongoing series of conversations about cloud computing’s contributions to medtech and the potential ahead. The discussion that f…

Imagining the future of cloud-connected medical devices with Johnson & Johnson leaders

Johnson & Johnson Office of Digital Innovation Leader Peter Schulam [Photo courtesy of Johnson & Johnson ]

Cloud-connected medical devices already collect and analyze data, talk to each other and use artificial intelligence to improve patient care, but how much more might be possible in the not-so-distant future? Surgery simulations? Smart ambulances? Full-body scanners? One-click healthcare?

I’ve been exploring that question for an upcoming edition of Medical Design & Outsourcing magazine, and asked two leaders in the Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) medical device business to put their imagination to work as they embark on a cloud partnership with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). This second part of the conversation (read the first part here) also discusses the regulatory aspect of cloud-connected medical devices and how the medtech industry can keep advancing the technology.

This conversatio…

Johnson & Johnson leaders discuss what’s possible with the Microsoft cloud deal

Johnson & Johnson Group CIO and Global Vice President of Medical Devices Larry Jones [Photo courtesy of J&J]

Two leaders from Johnson & Johnson connected with Medical Design & Outsourcing this week to discuss the medical device maker’s partnership with Microsoft, the cloud’s potential for medical devices and to offer advice for medtech engineers designing for connectivity.

In January, New Brunswick, New Jersey–based Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) named Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) as its preferred cloud provider for digital surgery solutions and partner on building out J&J’s digital surgery platform and internet of things (IoT) device connectivity.

Johnson & Johnson Group CIO and Global Vice President of Medical Devices Larry Jones and Office of Digital Innovation Leader Peter Schulam (who also serves as global head of medical affairs, clinical a…

AWS and pharma heavyweights join forces on AI-based drug discovery lab

The goal of using AI to transform drug discovery and development may not be novel. But a recent alliance is unique in both the stature of companies belonging to it and its choice of an innovation model.

Big Pharma firms AstraZeneca (LON:AZN), Merck KGaA (ETR: MRK), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Teva (NYSE:TEVA) will partner with Amazon Web Services Inc. (NSDQ:AMZN) and the Israel Biotech Fund (IBF) on what they term a “first-of-its-kind innovation lab” known as AION Labs.

“The launch of AION Labs will provide an opportunity for the healthcare and life sciences industry to uncover new ways to reduce the time and cost for discovery, facilitate open collaboration and interoperability, and ultimately improve patients’ health outcomes,” said Dan Sheeran, director of healthcare and life sciences at Amazon Web Services, in a statement.

AION Labs has also formed a strategic partnership with the biomedical research institute BioMed X (Heidelberg, Germany).

The lab…