BEST Surgery & Therapies

In an effort to better serve the Cincinnati community with the highest standard of Ambulatory Surgery Center care for spine and orthopaedics, BEST Surgery & Therapies announces two new services to their center: physical therapy and MRI. 

As part of BEST's services for spine and orthopaedic patients, physical therapy is the latest addition. Whether patients need basic therapy or surgical rehabilitation, the BEST physical therapy programs are designed to help patients improve mobility and increase strength. By using a combination of exercises and hands-on techniques, physical therapists work to promote better function and long-term health. An individual's physical therapy program will differ based on their age, condition, and recovery goals.

The types of physical therapy currently being offered include assisted soft tissue mobilization, muscle strengthening and conditioning, balance training and fall risk reduction, cupping, dry needling, Kinesio taping, core therapy, and a total joint pre and post-surgery program.

BEST has invested significantly in new machinery for its imaging and diagnostics floor. They have recently added a state-of-the-art Siemens Magnetom Aera magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) to diagnose spine and joint conditions.

The MRI can view the inside of the body in a non-invasive way while providing images of soft tissues including ligaments, nerves, tendons, and muscles. The MRI also images joint structures like bone and cartilage at a level of detail far beyond the information obtained with simple x-rays. The Magnetom Aera is an efficient machine that allows the exam to be completed as fast and accurately as possible while accommodating patients up to 550 pounds.

The inclusion of the new MRI machine and physical therapy service is posed to expand the range of care available to patients at BEST and allows us to better deliver superior service and provide multiple medical care options while enhancing the quality of patient experience.

BEST is a world-class facility that offers patients the most advanced medical care for spine and orthopaedic treatment. As a single-solution outpatient ambulatory facility, BEST focuses on conservative treatments for chronic pain affecting the back, neck, hip, knee, shoulder, and upper and lower extremities.

Patients can make an appointment to see an expert at our BEST office by calling 513-790-3810. BEST Surgery & Therapies is located at 2001 Gilbert Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202, open between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays. The team looks forward to connecting with new patients in the Cincinnati area looking for the treatment they deserve. 

About BEST Surgery & Therapies

Established in 2020, BEST Surgery & Therapies is a five-star outpatient facility focused on minimally invasive orthopaedic and spine care, an ideal alternative to hospital-based surgical care. At BEST, patients can experience world-class spine and orthopaedic treatment, conservative therapy, imaging & diagnostics, pain management, physical therapy, or outpatient surgical procedures. The goal is to provide the best comprehensive and quality care for patients in an environment that is safe, caring, and accessible.

For more information, visit https://www.bestsurgery.com/.

Media Contact: 513-790-3810

Cedar, an enterprise healthcare engagement platform that improves the end-to-end consumer financial journey, has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for Patient Engagement with Premier, Inc. Effective September 2022, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for Cedar's patient financial engagement solutions Cedar Pre and Cedar Pay.

"The Cedar team is thrilled to join Premier's ecosystem. This relationship will enable us to broaden our reach with health systems and patients across the country, expanding the impact of the consumer-grade financial experience our solutions offer," said Florian Otto, CEO and Co-founder of Cedar. 

Cedar Pre, Cedar's pre-visit solution, offers a personalized, concierge experience for consumers preparing for care, facilitating financial coordination, care navigation and patient intake. Cedar Pay, Cedar's post-visit billing and payment solution, combines health plan information with patient billing to deliver a simpler, more optimized consumer financial experience. Both Cedar Pre and Cedar Pay make up the Cedar Suite, an end-to-end solution that brings together payer data and provider communications into one platform. The Cedar Suite delivers a consistent and unified experience covering all patient touch points—from appointment confirmation and registration pre-service all the way to final payment post-service.  

Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 4,400 U.S. hospitals and 250,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, consulting and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost.

 About Cedar

Cedar is committed to improving the healthcare billing experience for all. With an innovative platform that connects providers and payers, Cedar empowers healthcare consumers with an optimized journey—all powered by data science and interactive design. For Cedar clients, this leads to improved financial outcomes, more efficient operations and greater consumer loyalty. To learn more about why leading U.S. healthcare organizations trust Cedar to manage the end-to-end consumer experience from pre-registration to post-visit billing, visit www.cedar.com and join us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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Fountain Health is proud to officially announce 100 percent coverage of Combinostics cMRI™ and cDSI™ — the industry-leading AI-enabled neurological imaging and decision support AI solutions for the early detection, diagnosis, and ongoing management of neurological disorders.

With an increasing ageing population, the U.S. has an urgent need to address the high prevalence of age-related dementia, which is expected to increase from 57 million to 85 million by 2030. Adding to the severity of the issue are the challenges with accurately differentiating between dementias and the exponentially high cost of diagnosis and treatment. In addition, multiple sclerosis (MS), is the second most expensive chronic condition in the U.S., costing $28 million in diagnosis and treatment annually.

Combinostics' AI-powered platform offers tools and software to support clinicians in the early detection, differential diagnosis, and ongoing management of patients with neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, dementias, MS, traumatic brain injuries, and epilepsy. The cMRI™ application within supports radiologists with AI-enabled imaging quantification, while the cDSI™ application combines and analyzes key patient and demographic data to support neurologists in diagnosis, testing decisions, prediction of disease trajectory, and treatment management. The company's groundbreaking Dementia Differential Analysis and clinically focused cMRI reports facilitate patient management as well as communication between radiologists, neurologists, patients, and their caregivers. A confident, accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment can have a significant impact on patient and caregiver well-being and quality of life throughout the disease course.

"Full coverage of cMRI and cDSI is just another avenue for Fountain Health's commitment to saving lives through preventative health," says Robert J. Rossiter, CEO of Fountain Health Insurance.

Fountain Health works alongside the world-class medical team at Fountain Life to provide their clients with access to life-altering tests and diagnostics. "While the best medical minds are working every day to learn more about neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, we've always known that everyone's best chance at treatment and management of symptoms is early detection," says Dr. William Kapp, CEO of Fountain Life. "Making life-altering testing like cMRI and cDSI accessible to more people is exactly what is needed to change the narrative around the treatment of these disorders."

"We are thrilled to partner with Fountain Health, and we look forward to supporting their clinicians and patients," said Richard Hausmann, CEO of Combinostics. "This is an exciting step forward to provide the best possible care for patients with neurological disorders."

Please reach out to learn more about Fountain Health's mission to provide transformative health insurance plans that focus on preventative, predictive, and proactive health, or visit us at fountainhealth.com

ABOUT FOUNTAIN HEALTH

Fountain Health believes that employees are a company's most important asset. Investing in employee health encourages employees to invest back in the company. Fountain Health Insurance provides the highest standard of coverage in large group health insurance. However, the primary focus at Fountain Health is on proactive care and keeping people healthy: not only does preventative health save lives by preventing illness or catching it early, while it is still highly treatable - it saves money. Early detection costs a fraction of finding and treating illnesses like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes in their more advanced stages. Fountain Health can transform lives by transforming insurance. Fountain Health is headquartered in Naples, FL and service location in Wilmington, NC. A new global headquarters has been announced and is soon to be opened in Lake Nona, FL. Learn more at www.fountainhealth.com.

ABOUT COMBINOSTICS

Combinostics' AI-powered cNeuro suite of products helps clinicians make a difference in the lives of patients with neurological disorders. By quantifying brain images and integrating patient data from multiple sources with insights from previous patients, the company's unique software tools provide radiologists and clinicians the support they need for confident, evidence-based diagnostic and management decisions. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tampere, Finland. For more information, please visit combinostics.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Fountain Health: Evan Balter
(973) 809-9403
[email protected]

Combinostics: Greg Kingston
+44 7841 688 602
[email protected]

Arterys, developer of the world's first and market-leading internet platform for medical imaging, has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for the Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Healthcare Category with Premier Inc. Effective Oct. 1, 2022, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for Arterys' medical imaging platform and clinical AI workflow solutions.

Arterys offers radiology departments a dedicated medical imaging platform with a comprehensive set of clinical AI-enhanced workflow solutions - adding value across a wide range of specialties. The platform delivers fast, accurate, and actionable medical imaging insights that empower physicians to make more informed treatment decisions and deliver better patient care. With its industry-leading FDA-cleared medical imaging applications and AI, Arterys provides customers with a high return on investment, combined with a low cost to implement and manage. 

"We are excited to offer Premier's members access to the Arterys Medical Imaging AI Platform," says John Axerio-Cilies, CEO and Co-Founder of Arterys. "As many members struggle with staffing, the Arterys platform allows for a second look, workflow improvements, and reduced IT overhead."

Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 4,400 U.S. hospitals and 250,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, consulting, and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost.

About Arterys:

Arterys, a Tempus Company, received the first-ever FDA Clearance of a DL/AI Model (Arterys Cardiac AI Model) and was the first developer of an internet platform for medical imaging. Driven by a vision to create a world where clinical care is data-driven and intelligent, Arterys provides fast, accurate, and actionable medical imaging insights that empower physicians to make more informed treatment decisions and deliver better patient care. With a single and seamless integration, Arterys offers radiology departments a dedicated medical imaging platform with a comprehensive set of clinical AI workflow solutions - adding value across a wide range of specialties. Arterys' medical imaging platform, with industry-leading FDA-cleared medical imaging applications and AI, delivers customers a high return on investment, combined with a low cost to implement and manage. For more information on Arterys, please visit www.arterys.com.

San-Diego based life-science service provider Pipette.com has announced the opening of a new ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratory in the Cleveland, OH, metropolitan area this month. 

"We look forward to strengthening the highly investable East Coast life sciences community, specifically enriching a northeast Ohio corridor that's received a significant amount of venture dollars and leads the nation in medical research and health services," said Ryan Arnold, Chief Growth Officer and Interim CEO for Pipette.com. "In addition to life sciences, the Great Lakes region, and more broadly, the eastern United States supports a robust scientific community, which transcends academia through GMP manufacturing." 

The laboratory, based in a mixed-use facility on the I-480 and I-271 shared corridor, will boast a hybrid laboratory, mechanical/preventative maintenance, and light distribution operation, extending nationwide access to critical services beyond the existing headquarters and footprint in San Diego, California.

"We are thrilled to fulfill a promise our customers have been asking for across the nation for years. Delivering two-day low-cost return shipping to virtually every corner of the lower 48 states without a heavy shipping fee strikes an important balance between cost and quality," said Alex Spector, President and Chairman of Pipette.com. 

The company has an active pipeline of science-based talent and a robust pipeline of business opportunity to expand both laboratory-based and future field-based calibration and lab maintenance services to enhance the modern laboratory. 

The new facility is actively processing customer pipette calibrations, with full laboratory and distribution capacity in place by January 2023. 

ABOUT PIPETTE.COM 

Pipette.com, The Feel Good Company, is one of several companies affiliated with parent company Matphil Technologies, Inc. The Matphil family of companies delivers life science and academic-focused solutions for the modern laboratory. The business supports consumable laboratory equipment, handheld pipettes and scientific instruments, and a robust suite of benchtop equipment. The organization's calibration laboratories are accredited to the highest standard, and the suite of services are in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 8655, ensuring quality and certainty for asset owners. Qualer software is divided into solutions for both asset owners and service providers, assisting each to maintain critical instrumentation in a state of control. The company was founded in 1996. 

PSYONIC's Ability Hand. Invest on StartEngine.
Bionic hand from PSYONIC holding a raspberry.

Bionic technology company PSYONIC announced that it has launched a fundraising round on the crowdfunding website StartEngine. The round will support the ongoing development and delivery of its breakthrough bionic hand. It has raised more than $500,000 in its first two public weeks and is currently listed among the site's most-funded companies.

Released nationally in 2021, PSYONIC's Ability Hand^TM was called the a "miracle in the works" by CNBC earlier this year. 

The tough, lightweight Ability Hand is the only multi-touch sensing bionic hand on the market, and it closes faster than the blink of an eye - in about 200 milliseconds. It is made in the United States and is covered by Medicare, making it much more affordable and accessible than any other advanced bionic hand on the market.

Dr. Aadeel Akhtar, PSYONIC's CEO, first encountered a person with a limb difference as a child visiting Pakistan with his parents. "She was my age, living in poverty, missing her right leg, and using a broken tree branch as a crutch. That's what inspired me to want to go into this field and develop these advanced bionic limbs that would be affordable and accessible to others around the entire world."

People throughout the United States - grandmothers and veterans, triathletes and teenagers - are already using the Ability Hand. (Watch them arm wrestle, flip a water bottle, and work on the farm.) PSYONIC is also exploring the development of a bionic leg, artificial tendons, new methods of providing sensory feedback, and software to improve biointegrated technologies' functionality, responsiveness, and ease of use. 

Anyone over 18 can now buy shares of PSYONIC with a minimum investment of $250.

The bionic limb market is expected to grow to almost $3 billion in the next eight years, and PSYONIC's Ability Hand is in high demand among robotics researchers as well. NASA, Meta, and Apptronik are clients.

"The Ability Hand's anthropomorphic form factor with robust and feature-rich hardware offers an exciting and unique potential to use it as a platform for research in robot learning and dexterous manipulation," said Mustafa Mukadam, Ph.D., who is working with the Ability Hand at Meta.

Levi Hargrove, Ph.D., director of the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, said, "The Ability Hand is an extremely capable device, even for our most advanced research studies. The PSYONIC team is responsive to our feedback, which makes it very easy to use with our intuitive and personalized control systems." 

PSYONIC is a bionic technology company based in San Diego. Leveraging proprietary bionic breakthroughs, PSYONIC's Ability Hand offers those with limb differences the high-performance solution they deserve. PSYONIC was founded by Dr. Aadeel Akhtar, who was one of MIT Technology Review's top 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2021.