After his then three-year-old daughter Isabel nearly died because of a misdiagnosis at their local hospital, Jason Maude and his wife Charlotte, along with Joseph Britto, MD, founded Isabel Healthcare (Haslemere, Surrey) in an effort to help clinicians reduce cognitive diagnostic errors. (Medical Device Daily)

Nearly 11 months ago to the day, Jeff Kepner made history as surgeons performed the first U.S. double-hand transplant surgery on him at the University of Pittsburgh. With the one year anniversary of Kepner's surgery approaching, Medical Device Daily spoke last week with the surgeon whose invention helped assure Kepner's doctors last May that the surgery was a success. (Medical Device Daily)

Remote health management (RHM) is the fastest growing segment of a burgeoning home health management market, according to a market review released this week by Scientia Advisors (Cambridge, Massachusetts), a global strategy consulting firm. But the RHM segment's full potential will not materialize unless health insurers adopt reimbursement practices that encourage greater physician adoption, the firm concluded. (Medical Device Daily)

Often times when a company releases a “next generation“ device, the new product just features a couple of minor upgrades and actually isn't all that “new“ at all. That doesn't seem to be the case with the Fast-Fix 360 Meniscal Repair System introduced this week by Smith & Nephew's (S&N)Endoscopy Division (Andover, Massachusetts). (Medical Device Daily)