Author: Foxpoint Media

The rate of change in the field of oncology has continued to accelerate, with an information doubling expected to occur every two months – or expanding at the rate of 64x per year. The oncology field has long since crossed the line that individuals can keep pace with the rate of increasing knowledge. It shouldn’t be surprising that AI-based applications have simultaneously exploded within radiational...

Southborough, Mass., Aug. 2, 2023 -- Full Spectrum Software, a rapidly growing product development and engineering services company catering to the medical device, digital health, and life science industries, announces it has achieved significant revenue growth of over 30% in the first half of 2023 compared to the first half of 2022. This growth represents a solid acceleration over the 25% growth achieved in 2022...

Recently, the New York Times had an article on Page 1, above the fold, titled, “Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine”. As the piece describes, the explosion of the utility of new biotech technologies, from CRISPR to mRNA, is leading to a continuous stream of new molecules targeted at an ever-expanding range of human disease.   While it is inarguable that the...

Intuitive Surgical shipped their first surgical Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) in 1998. In the twenty-five years since, the technology has become ingrained in most surgical procedures. Incredibly, the market itself is projected to grow 7-fold over the next 7 years. This growth has created a crowded market with over 125 companies entering the RAS market in recent years. Most of these companies are focused on...

The expanding impact of Digital Health and Digital Therapeutics is being felt by the EP sector.  Remote monitoring of implantable cardiac devices (ICDs), cardiac resynchronization therapy devices (CRT-Ds), and pacemakers have been shown to improve patient outcomes. More recent work applying convolution neural network (CNN) based artificial intelligence (AI) to the interpretation of ECG signals has shown to improve recognition of silent A-Fib and asymptomatic...

The pressure to extend product capabilities within the healthcare information systems industry has gone through cycles over the past few decades, but it has never been higher than it is right now. If you were to look at the HIMSS education track from ten years ago the focus was on getting broader adoption of existing technology: expanded use of EHR and HIE, the definition of...

Pressure continues to mount to reduce the use of in-hospital resources in order to improve the cost performance of healthcare. Developing more cost-effective methods of addressing cardiac-related illness, still the number one cause of death in the US, is a high priority. Remote monitoring and diagnostics are seen as providing tremendous advantages to cardiologists and patients, including the promise of earlier detection, while also keeping...

Connectivity in medical devices has become ubiquitous. No longer a novelty, the ability to gather and exchange data across a network of devices is often a required part of any modern system.   Devices with more sophisticated connectivity offer extensive potential improvements: data collection allows manufacturers to improve patient outcomes by analyzing usage patterns, augmenting device behavior with off-device functionality, such as AI. By uncovering opportunities for...

Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging: Architecture, Interoperability, and other Key Considerations   After a period of relative calm in the medical imaging market, we are now in the early stages of another era of rapid evolution. Efforts are underway on multiple fronts, to improve the effectiveness of treatment, reduce costs, and prevent diagnostic errors.   At the same time there is a push to facilitate interoperability of different...

The radiation oncology (RO) market continues to change rapidly. Efforts with the goals of improving the effectiveness of treatment, while reducing costs, and preventable treatment errors is driving the new capabilities into both delivery and treatment planning systems. In a change from recent years, a very large percentage of product value creation is coming from the development of sophisticated software capabilities, in yet another example...