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  • Assessing The Impact Of MDR & IVDR On Patients

    Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | In less than 12 months, the world’s second-largest market for medical technologies will be overhauled with the implementation of the European Union’s new Medical Device Regulation, and shortly thereafter, the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation. Medical device manufacturers will face new challenges as these regulations are introduced, and these challenges will ultimately affect the patients that need these devices.

    Sep 24, 2019
  • Digital Era Creates Communication Glitches For Pathologists

    Diagnostics World News | Widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has led to some disturbing communication snafus in the pathology results reporting process that some provider organizations are actively working to mitigate.

    Sep 17, 2019
  • ESN Cleer Finds Value In Saliva As Diagnostic

    Diagnostics World News | ESN Cleer, a Melbourne-based startup, is looking to predict heart failure and other cardiac diseases using a patient's saliva.

    Sep 16, 2019
  • For Health Applications, Microbiome Research Needs a Tech Transformation

    Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | Despite remarkable potential, microbiome research—and the diagnostics and therapeutics that will one day be developed based on these findings—is severely limited by century-old microbiology tools.

    Sep 13, 2019
  • Problems Aplenty Employing Point-Of-Care Devices In Clinical Settings

    Diagnostics World News | Clinical perspectives on point-of-care (POC) diagnostic testing was the subject of a lively panel session at the recent Next-Generation Dx Summit. Major themes were how implementations can go right—or terribly wrong—and the dubious practice of confirmatory testing.

    Sep 11, 2019
  • AI Tool Detects Diabetes-Related Eye Condition Without Human Interpretation

    Diagnostics World News | Last year, IDx-DR became the first-ever so-called "autonomous AI" system cleared by the FDA to provide a screening decision without the oversight of a doctor. Since then, IDx Technologies, the company behind the product, has begun to roll out this tool designed to detect diabetic retinopathy.

    Sep 6, 2019
  • An Artificial Intelligence Twist On Symptom Checkers

    Diagnostics World News | Buoy is taking an AI-driven approach to fixing the front line of healthcare: the internet, where most patients go to answer two pivotal questions: "What do I have?" and "How do I fix it?"

    Sep 4, 2019
  • Guiding Principles For Academic-Industry Partnerships

    Diagnostics World News | Dwindling government funds for research and development has universities doing everything possible to maximize returns on what taxpayer-supported grants bring in.

    Sep 3, 2019
  • Shield Diagnostics, GNA Biosolutions, Quantabio, And More: News From August 2019

    Diagnostics World News | August featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Shield Diagnostics, GNA Biosolutions, Quantabio, and more.

    Aug 29, 2019