Below is a fascinating graphic featured recently in the Star Tribune. From 2000-2010, the preponderance of pacemakers as well as artificial hips and knees have all increased across every age group. To me, this doesn’t say that people are living more dangerously with more chance of injury or heart disease. …
The Smithsonian published this month a fascinating article about the future of implants. It’s a must read for anyone interested in how organs and limbs are being manufactured and how we are moving quite quickly toward replacing a large percentage of the human body with devices, which will be connected to the …
Check out this great interview on Aetna in the ACO arena. The real dollars are in managing high cost surgeries — Access MediQuip‘s wheelhouse. If Aetna adds that in the mix they will be able to bridge the often sizable gap between cost, quality and safety in implantable device surgeries …
Access MediQuip, and my teammate and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Steve Arnold, were featured in an article that appeared in Healthcare Purchasing News. Entitled “Total recall striving for prime-time readiness: Automated tools available, emerging among manual processes” the article talks about the critical …