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Artisight, which offers a smart hospital platform, raises $42 million in a Series B funding round.
Co-founder and CEO Andrew Gostine, MD, MBA formed the company while working in his anesthesiology residency.
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Masks are back on at my local hospitals. Our area is seeing a surge of COVID, influenza, and RSV patients. We’re seeing full intensive care units. Nursing exhaustion is approaching pandemic levels.
Across the…
This weekend was all about playing cleanup. The new year brings a lot of things for the physician to-do list, one of which is starting my quarterly questions that are needed for me to…
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I didn’t ring in the new year in Auckland, but since I visited there earlier in the year, I could at least visualize more accurately what it must be like to celebrate in…
As we expected, coming out of the Thanksgiving holiday and moving towards Christmas, emergency department and hospital visits for respiratory viruses were on the rise. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control…
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I’ve spent the majority of my career helping people use healthcare technology as efficiently as possible. It gets under my skin when clinicians report wildly inefficient workflows and I always want to dig in…
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Mr. H posed a question last week about how to streamline training for PCPs and asked me to weigh in as well.
To really answer the question, we have to ask ourselves what we…
From Patient Satisfaction: “Re: patients navigating coverage choices during open enrollment. You are right on target. The challenge of navigating the maze between coverage and patient care is overwhelming. I sympathize with physicians and…
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I’ve been doing some locum tenens work in a traditional family medicine practice. I can attest that the negative feelings that primary care physicians have towards performing uncompensated work are real.
I was brought…
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Celero Systems, and West Virginia University have created a new ingestible device that can monitor vital signs such as respiratory rate and heart rate….
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