MedTech

Life365 builds on its Hospital@Home product offering with Eat Fit Go partnership

April 8, 2021

Life365, a leading virtual care platform provider, announced its partnership with EAT FIT GO Wellness. Life365 continues to build out its Virtual Care, tech-enabled healthcare platform, intended to provide a simpler solution for insurance companies, health systems (Hospital@Home), payors, senior aging services, wellness programs, clinical trials and large self-insured employers. The platform is designed to provide variety of solutions that are personalized for an individual coming from a commonly integrated platform to provide a “whole person solution” and not delivering one off individual products.

WebPT wins 2020 Arizona Corporate Excellence Community Impact Award

November 21, 2020

Although WebPT is a physical therapy-focused software organization for practitioners, its leadership wants its focus to be broader. And because of its fixation on giving back to Phoenix, it is this year’s winner of the Arizona Corporate Excellence (ACE) Community Impact Award and No. 25 on the ACE list of the state’s largest private companies.

Meeting the rising demand for medical device consumable manufacturing

October 23, 2020

From in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) platforms and blood glucose monitoring tools to ambulatory systems and clinical wearables, more and more of these medical devices require high-volume, complex consumables to make patient care more effective. The challenge of meeting the demand for this shift is that the development of manufacturing processes for medical device consumables is unique, highly regulated, and exceedingly complex compared to any other market disposable.

WebPT selected as platform partner for new Therapy Alliance network

September 25, 2020

WebPT, the nation’s leading rehab therapy software platform, will join forces with Southern California-based Physical Rehabilitation Network (PRN) to support physical rehabilitation clinics in ways that will empower them to achieve their maximum potential. WebPT’s product suite provides a robust end-to-end solution covering the entire rehab therapy business cycle, from billing and managing a practice to delivering quality, evidence-based care.

NAU microbiome researcher receives $3.75 million grant

September 21, 2020

Greg Caporaso, director of the Center for Applied Microbiome Science, part of the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University, has been awarded a $3.75 million grant by the National Cancer Institute to build software capable of analyzing and archiving data focused on the interplay between the human microbiome (the trillions of microorganisms living in and on the human body) and diverse types of cancer.

MedTech 2020: The Future of Healthcare

August 27, 2020

The future of health care is transforming in front of our very eyes with advances in digital health-care technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning, 3D printing, robotics and nanotechnology. The Arizona Technology Council’s 2020 MedTech Conference covered these topics and more, as well as delivered a great lineup of speakers, panels and forward-thinking content.

MedTech Roundtable: Leveraging AI and robotic process automation in health care

July 1, 2020

The Arizona Technology Council’s June 2020 MedTech Roundtable event featured a distinguished panel of experts from AdviNOW Medical, Mediato Technologies and Observe.AI who shared their insight and expertise on how artificial intelligence, one of the world’s highest-growth industries, is revolutionizing modern medicine and patient care. Moderated by Ellen Owens-Karcsay, principal and founder of Karcsay Consulting Group and the MedTech Committee chair, it was a fantastic discussion and well worth a listen.

Medtech Virtual Roundtable: Managing and mitigating risk in medical technology

May 20, 2020

The Arizona Technology Council held a virtual panel discussion featuring cybersecurity experts Frank Grimmelmann and Anthony Dezilva. Many businesses, organizations and employees are currently adapting to an ever-changing economic outlook in the current business climate. With so much going on, cybersecurity may not top of mind. But it should be a top priority. Moderated by Arizona Technology Council CEO Steve Zylstra, it was a fantastic discussion and well worth a listen.

Kudelski Group launches tech solutions in the fight against COVID-19

April 29, 2020

The Kudelski Group, the world leader in digital security, and CoreKinect, a leader in scalable hardware design and manufacturing, announced the launch of a joint solution enabling hospitals, government agencies and NGOs to track key assets in the fight against COVID-19, ensuring they arrive where they are needed.

TGen is combating Coronavirus: Smarter treatments. Better outcomes.

March 6, 2020

TGen’s work in solving disease outbreaks and building genomic surveillance and detection systems. This work includes designing rapid, highly accurate and cost-effective tests for critical pathogens —such as Valley Fever, MRSA and other hospital superbugs, influenza, tuberculosis — finding and describing new disease pathogens, and detecting outbreaks at the earliest possible timepoints and tracking the evolution of these pathogens.