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יום שישי, 30 במאי 2014
Israel snags top spots for innovation in business survey
Top marks for entrepreneurship, cyber-security and business R&D, lower ranking for competitiveness
Illustrative photo of a software developer at an Israeli start-up working on a project. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
Israel placed first for entrepreneurship, innovation, cyber-security and business-sector research and development in the survey, put out by the IMD World Competitiveness Center of the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Israel also took second and third place in several categories relating to technology and government investment in research and education,the survey said In the survey’s main ranking, though, measuring overall business competitiveness, Israel dropped five spots from last year’s survey, from 19 to 24. The United States retained its top spot in that ranking, followed by Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong.
The factors that dragged Israel down, according to the survey, were its high cost of living, the low quality of corporations’ boards of directors, and the risk that research and development centers in Israel would be transferred abroad
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Israeli ‘eavesdropper’ hears you 1,000 feet away
The Opto-Phone detects long-distance sound vibrations, turns them into words. Security not its primary function, says inventor
Professor Zalevsky and the eavesdropper system (Photo credit: Screenshot)
A device developed by an Israeli scientist can pick up conversations from hundreds of feet away without a microphone. “Using a laser beam with a camera, we can detect the voice wave patterns of the sounds that a person makes when they are talking,” says Bar-Ilan University Professor Zev Zalevsky, who helped design the system. “We take these wave patterns and translate them back into voice, and thus can interpret what was said from even a long distance away.”
The system is the latest use for a technology and device Zalevsky designed in 2011 together with Javier Garcia of the University of Valencia in Spain. Called the Opto-Phone, the device was designed to gather medical data about an individual, allowing doctors to read heartbeat, blood pressure or blood glucose levels from 100 meters away. With the latest tweaks to the Opto-Phone, Zalevsky told Channel 2 Tuesday night, the device can now detect voice wave patterns from up to 400 meters (about 1,200 feet) away. This makes it the perfect tool not only for “long-distance” medical diagnosis, but for long-distance eavesdropping, as well. Using a laser beam, an advanced camera and sensors, the Opto-Phone uses nano-photonics to detect movement on the surface of the body. This movement creates a “speckle pattern,” which can be read by the Opto-Phone. By analyzing this pattern, the system can “hear” the number of heartbeats in a person’s body, the rush of blood in the bloodstream and voice wave patterns as they bounce off two people engaged in a conversation. The technology is so precise, Zalevsky said, “we can differentiate between different people based on their position,” listening in on whatever they are involved in, Zalevsky told the Times of Israel. Zalevsky
who is director of the electro-optics study program at Bar Ilan’s faculty of engineering and director of the Nano Photonics Center at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), is one of Israel’s most prolific inventors. Among the many devices he has developed is an endoscope suitable for injection into the bloodstream. The average endoscope, at 3 millimeters in diameter, is too large for many applications, such as examining blood vessels or organs. Most endoscopes can be used for either examination or treatment, but not both. “Our endoscope is 900 times smaller than the standard ones and offers much better resolution,” he said
who is director of the electro-optics study program at Bar Ilan’s faculty of engineering and director of the Nano Photonics Center at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), is one of Israel’s most prolific inventors. Among the many devices he has developed is an endoscope suitable for injection into the bloodstream. The average endoscope, at 3 millimeters in diameter, is too large for many applications, such as examining blood vessels or organs. Most endoscopes can be used for either examination or treatment, but not both. “Our endoscope is 900 times smaller than the standard ones and offers much better resolution,” he said
Professor Zev Zalevsky (Photo credit: Courtesy)
Zalevsky developed a single lens based on nanotechnology principles which can focus light from between 33 centimeters away and up to the horizon. This technology, he said, could eliminate the need for bifocals. The lens is engraved with patterns that shift the phase of light waves, enabling the wearer to clearly focus on objects both near and far, no matter what their vision problem. In 2007, Zalevsky established Xceed Imaging to commercialize the technology.
Speaking to Channel 2, Zalevsky said that he couldn’t comment on whether or not Israeli security services had approached him to discuss using the Opto-Phone technology for security purposes. Speaking to the Times of Israel, Zalevsky said that, while the technology clearly had security applications, “I think that biomedical applications are a much better opportunity for this.”
By David Shamah
Untold Stories of Israeli Innovation
Marcella Rosen knew what she had to do. Standing on the sidelines while the state of Israel was being denigrated just wouldn’t work for the marketing professional from New York. If the news about Israel is almost always negative, she’d do something about it. She’d share untold news. And that’s how Untold News (www.untoldnews.org) was born
Untold News gathers and disseminates positive stories about the myriad ways Israeli innovation brings help, hope, and healing to the world. Rosen is passionate about sharing all this and more: While everyone has been focused on the country’s decades of military conflicts, Israel has quietly become the most energetic, ambitious, go-go incubator of entrepreneurialism and invention the planet has ever seen
It’s true: Israel is a barrier-breaking dynamo of a kind never before witnessed in history. Acre-for-acre, citizen-for-citizen, no place is churning out more ideas, more products, more procedures and devices and technologies than this tiny strip of land along the Mediterranean. And the work that Israel is turning out is saving and improving lives around the world, every day
Anyone who’s visited an Israeli hospital, or seen the way the nation is reclaiming the desert (prepare to gasp if you get the chance to visit the Dead Sea region, and gaze upon acre-after-acre of palm groves, rising from what was once the moonscape of southern Israel) knows that Rosen is correct in making the case that Israel is no brutal occupier and oppressor of human rights. In fact, the tiny dynamo is all about virtue and compassion and startling innovation.
In fact, Rosen’s book, Tiny Dynamo, is a quick read crammed-full of fascinating facts. Consider the fact that in the U.S. alone, a staggering 90,000 people die each year from hospital infections. Worldwide, the figure climbs to one million.
Part of the problem is not so easily fixed: unwashed hands, door handles, or airborne germs. Aharon Gedanken chose to focus on those problem areas that can be remedied. He realized that fabrics used in hospitals—pajamas, sheets, gowns—could be redone in such a way that infections didn’t spread that way anymore.
A chemist at the Bar-Ilan University Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Gedanken created an anti-bacterial “coating” that soaks into the very fabric of a gown, sheet, etc
Or consider the stunning achievements Israelis have made with drip irrigation. In a region where water is a prized and rare commodity, Israeli agriculturalists have been able to grow vast crops, using fraction of the water supply other countries use.
It’s no secret that Jewish immigrants to Palestine and later, Israel, took a bleak plot of ground and turned it into a country where now, more tulips are exported from Israel than from Holland! A drip irrigation system developed by a company called Netafim has produced a world-class system for more efficiently irrigating crops
For example, in 1965, a standard drip irrigation system used from two to four liters of water per hour—a revolutionary improvement. Yet today, a Netafim system uses only a half-liter per hour!
For Rosen, this kind of brilliance must be shouted from the rooftops
Unfortunately, the media doesn’t really give you a chance to develop an informed opinion about Israel — or many other countries, for that matter — because, in the press, ‘If it bleeds it leads’ —
and the Middle East certainly does bleed. So that’s all you hear.
But the truth is this: while the world’s attention has for decades been focused on one single dimension of Israeli life, something entirely different has been taking place away from the cameras: Israel has quietly become the little country that changed the world — and your life — for the better . . . without you even knowing it.”
At a time when terrorism is cresting, Israel rises to meet the challenge. It was just announced that the Israeli Air Force has increased its overall effectiveness by 400 percent. An impressive achievement to be sure. Yet Rosen dreams of a reality beyond war:
“If tiny, beleaguered Israel can generate these kinds of results under its current circumstances, imagine what would happen — imagine what it could achieve — if it were released from the shackles of warfare. If this little country of fewer than eight million souls could focus the entirety of its energy and resources and resilience on the problems and puzzles facing us all, how much better a place would this world be?”
It’s an important question, and one that perhaps should be asked among the “land-for-peace” activists, who have been courting failure for more than two decades.
Why not join a winning team and strive for actually improving our beleaguered world? That’s what the good folks at Untold News are doing every day.
by Jim Fletcher - a writer and researcher, and long-time pro Israel activist. He can be reached at jim1fletcher@yahoo.com.
יום שבת, 24 במאי 2014
Israeli 3D Printing Lab Creates Religiously Ethical Blood Transfusion Machine
There is a new world out there revolving around the phenomenon of 3D-Printing. People have printed everything from cars to new houses for the poor, shoes and art, and even new organs. This technology has already begun changing the world. Now, one of the world leaders in the realm of 3D printing, American-Israeli company Stratasys, has partnered with British company Brightwake (Advancis Medical) to produce a life-saving and religiously ethical blood collection machine.
HemoSep is a one-of-a-kind machine that recovers blood lost or spilled during major trauma and open-heart surgeries, recycling the blood and allowing for its quick transfusion back into the patient. Known as autotransfusion, this process reduces the need for donor blood in a surgery and eliminates any possible complications tied to transfusion reactions. For religious individuals in particular who refuse donor blood, HemoSep’s blood recycling technology could be a real life-saver.
“The Hemosep consists of a bag that uses chemical sponge technology and a mechanical agitator to concentrate blood sucked from a surgical site or drained from a heart-lung machine after surgery,” explained Brightwake’s Director of Research and Development, Steve Cotton to NoCamels. “The cells are then returned to the patient via blood transfusion. In a climate of blood shortage, this recycling methodology has the potential to be a game-changer in the medical industry, saving the National Health Service (NHS) millions.”
With the desire to get the HemoSep’s live-saving blood recycling technology on the market sooner, Brightwake turned to 3D printed prototype parts to save time and money. Dramatically shortening the production process of three weeks for outsourced products, Brightwake’s in-house use of the Stratasys 3D printer saved the company time and cut its prototyping costs by an astonishing 96 percent, saving about £1000 per piece.
According to Cotton, “3D printing has not only enabled us to cut our own costs, it has also been crucial in actually getting a functional device to clinical trials. The ability to 3D print parts that look, feel and perform like the final product, on-the-fly, is the future of medical device manufacturing.”
While the devices costs are low, the blood saving potential is high. However, with the technology still in the developmental stages, patients will still need to resort to receiving blood transfusions for the foreseeable future.
When asked about this new life and blood saving innovation, Jonathan Feldstein, Director of the Heart to Heart foundation, which supports Israel’s national blood bank, said; “While new, entrepreneurial and creative technology such as this are exciting and may have an impact in saving lives one day, the bottom line is that Israel’s blood supply comes entirely from donors in Israel and Jewish and Christian tourists, and the cost to protect and preserve Israel’s blood supply is great.”
“Heart to Heart is proud both to bring people visiting Israel to donate blood which benefits all Israelis and many of our neighbors and foreigners in Israel, and to generate financial resources to ensure Israel always has a safe and plentiful blood supply.”
Heart to Heart has run numerous successful blood drives of visiting groups of Christian and Jewish tourist in the past few months, while enabling those abroad to make a “virtual” blood donation by donating money to help facilitate blood transfusions in Israel.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/15065/israeli-3d-printing-creates-religiously-ethical-blood-collection-machine/#62RkxxOKUP1r5opX.99
HemoSep is a one-of-a-kind machine that recovers blood lost or spilled during major trauma and open-heart surgeries, recycling the blood and allowing for its quick transfusion back into the patient. Known as autotransfusion, this process reduces the need for donor blood in a surgery and eliminates any possible complications tied to transfusion reactions. For religious individuals in particular who refuse donor blood, HemoSep’s blood recycling technology could be a real life-saver.
“The Hemosep consists of a bag that uses chemical sponge technology and a mechanical agitator to concentrate blood sucked from a surgical site or drained from a heart-lung machine after surgery,” explained Brightwake’s Director of Research and Development, Steve Cotton to NoCamels. “The cells are then returned to the patient via blood transfusion. In a climate of blood shortage, this recycling methodology has the potential to be a game-changer in the medical industry, saving the National Health Service (NHS) millions.”
With the desire to get the HemoSep’s live-saving blood recycling technology on the market sooner, Brightwake turned to 3D printed prototype parts to save time and money. Dramatically shortening the production process of three weeks for outsourced products, Brightwake’s in-house use of the Stratasys 3D printer saved the company time and cut its prototyping costs by an astonishing 96 percent, saving about £1000 per piece.
According to Cotton, “3D printing has not only enabled us to cut our own costs, it has also been crucial in actually getting a functional device to clinical trials. The ability to 3D print parts that look, feel and perform like the final product, on-the-fly, is the future of medical device manufacturing.”
While the devices costs are low, the blood saving potential is high. However, with the technology still in the developmental stages, patients will still need to resort to receiving blood transfusions for the foreseeable future.
When asked about this new life and blood saving innovation, Jonathan Feldstein, Director of the Heart to Heart foundation, which supports Israel’s national blood bank, said; “While new, entrepreneurial and creative technology such as this are exciting and may have an impact in saving lives one day, the bottom line is that Israel’s blood supply comes entirely from donors in Israel and Jewish and Christian tourists, and the cost to protect and preserve Israel’s blood supply is great.”
“Heart to Heart is proud both to bring people visiting Israel to donate blood which benefits all Israelis and many of our neighbors and foreigners in Israel, and to generate financial resources to ensure Israel always has a safe and plentiful blood supply.”
Heart to Heart has run numerous successful blood drives of visiting groups of Christian and Jewish tourist in the past few months, while enabling those abroad to make a “virtual” blood donation by donating money to help facilitate blood transfusions in Israel.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/15065/israeli-3d-printing-creates-religiously-ethical-blood-collection-machine/#62RkxxOKUP1r5opX.99
There is a new world out there revolving around the phenomenon of 3D-Printing. People have printed everything from cars to new houses for the poor, shoes and art, and even new organs. This technology has already begun changing the world. Now, one of the world leaders in the realm of 3D printing, American-Israeli company Stratasys, has partnered with British company Brightwake (Advancis Medical) to produce a life-saving and religiously ethical blood collection machine.
HemoSep is a one-of-a-kind machine that recovers blood lost or spilled during major trauma and open-heart surgeries, recycling the blood and allowing for its quick transfusion back into the patient. Known as autotransfusion, this process reduces the need for donor blood in a surgery and eliminates any possible complications tied to transfusion reactions. For religious individuals in particular who refuse donor blood, HemoSep’s blood recycling technology could be a real life-saver.
“The Hemosep consists of a bag that uses chemical sponge technology and a mechanical agitator to concentrate blood sucked from a surgical site or drained from a heart-lung machine after surgery,” explained Brightwake’s Director of Research and Development, Steve Cotton to NoCamels. “The cells are then returned to the patient via blood transfusion. In a climate of blood shortage, this recycling methodology has the potential to be a game-changer in the medical industry, saving the National Health Service (NHS) millions.”
With the desire to get the HemoSep’s live-saving blood recycling technology on the market sooner, Brightwake turned to 3D printed prototype parts to save time and money. Dramatically shortening the production process of three weeks for outsourced products, Brightwake’s in-house use of the Stratasys 3D printer saved the company time and cut its prototyping costs by an astonishing 96 percent, saving about £1000 per piece.
According to Cotton, “3D printing has not only enabled us to cut our own costs, it has also been crucial in actually getting a functional device to clinical trials. The ability to 3D print parts that look, feel and perform like the final product, on-the-fly, is the future of medical device manufacturing.”
While the devices costs are low, the blood saving potential is high. However, with the technology still in the developmental stages, patients will still need to resort to receiving blood transfusions for the foreseeable future.
When asked about this new life and blood saving innovation, Jonathan Feldstein, Director of the Heart to Heart foundation, which supports Israel’s national blood bank, said; “While new, entrepreneurial and creative technology such as this are exciting and may have an impact in saving lives one day, the bottom line is that Israel’s blood supply comes entirely from donors in Israel and Jewish and Christian tourists, and the cost to protect and preserve Israel’s blood supply is great.”
“Heart to Heart is proud both to bring people visiting Israel to donate blood which benefits all Israelis and many of our neighbors and foreigners in Israel, and to generate financial resources to ensure Israel always has a safe and plentiful blood supply.”
Heart to Heart has run numerous successful blood drives of visiting groups of Christian and Jewish tourist in the past few months, while enabling those abroad to make a “virtual” blood donation by donating money to help facilitate blood transfusions in Israel.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/15065/israeli-3d-printing-creates-religiously-ethical-blood-collection-machine/#62RkxxOKUP1r5opX.99
HemoSep is a one-of-a-kind machine that recovers blood lost or spilled during major trauma and open-heart surgeries, recycling the blood and allowing for its quick transfusion back into the patient. Known as autotransfusion, this process reduces the need for donor blood in a surgery and eliminates any possible complications tied to transfusion reactions. For religious individuals in particular who refuse donor blood, HemoSep’s blood recycling technology could be a real life-saver.
“The Hemosep consists of a bag that uses chemical sponge technology and a mechanical agitator to concentrate blood sucked from a surgical site or drained from a heart-lung machine after surgery,” explained Brightwake’s Director of Research and Development, Steve Cotton to NoCamels. “The cells are then returned to the patient via blood transfusion. In a climate of blood shortage, this recycling methodology has the potential to be a game-changer in the medical industry, saving the National Health Service (NHS) millions.”
With the desire to get the HemoSep’s live-saving blood recycling technology on the market sooner, Brightwake turned to 3D printed prototype parts to save time and money. Dramatically shortening the production process of three weeks for outsourced products, Brightwake’s in-house use of the Stratasys 3D printer saved the company time and cut its prototyping costs by an astonishing 96 percent, saving about £1000 per piece.
According to Cotton, “3D printing has not only enabled us to cut our own costs, it has also been crucial in actually getting a functional device to clinical trials. The ability to 3D print parts that look, feel and perform like the final product, on-the-fly, is the future of medical device manufacturing.”
While the devices costs are low, the blood saving potential is high. However, with the technology still in the developmental stages, patients will still need to resort to receiving blood transfusions for the foreseeable future.
When asked about this new life and blood saving innovation, Jonathan Feldstein, Director of the Heart to Heart foundation, which supports Israel’s national blood bank, said; “While new, entrepreneurial and creative technology such as this are exciting and may have an impact in saving lives one day, the bottom line is that Israel’s blood supply comes entirely from donors in Israel and Jewish and Christian tourists, and the cost to protect and preserve Israel’s blood supply is great.”
“Heart to Heart is proud both to bring people visiting Israel to donate blood which benefits all Israelis and many of our neighbors and foreigners in Israel, and to generate financial resources to ensure Israel always has a safe and plentiful blood supply.”
Heart to Heart has run numerous successful blood drives of visiting groups of Christian and Jewish tourist in the past few months, while enabling those abroad to make a “virtual” blood donation by donating money to help facilitate blood transfusions in Israel.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/15065/israeli-3d-printing-creates-religiously-ethical-blood-collection-machine/#62RkxxOKUP1r5opX.99
There is a new world out there revolving around the phenomenon of 3D-Printing. People have printed everything from cars to new houses for the poor, shoes and art, and even new organs. This technology has already begun changing the world. Now, one of the world leaders in the realm of 3D printing, American-Israeli company Stratasys, has partnered with British company Brightwake (Advancis Medical) to produce a life-saving and religiously ethical blood collection machine.
HemoSep is a one-of-a-kind machine that recovers blood lost or spilled during major trauma and open-heart surgeries, recycling the blood and allowing for its quick transfusion back into the patient. Known as autotransfusion, this process reduces the need for donor blood in a surgery and eliminates any possible complications tied to transfusion reactions. For religious individuals in particular who refuse donor blood, HemoSep’s blood recycling technology could be a real life-saver.
“The Hemosep consists of a bag that uses chemical sponge technology and a mechanical agitator to concentrate blood sucked from a surgical site or drained from a heart-lung machine after surgery,” explained Brightwake’s Director of Research and Development, Steve Cotton to NoCamels. “The cells are then returned to the patient via blood transfusion. In a climate of blood shortage, this recycling methodology has the potential to be a game-changer in the medical industry, saving the National Health Service (NHS) millions.”
With the desire to get the HemoSep’s live-saving blood recycling technology on the market sooner, Brightwake turned to 3D printed prototype parts to save time and money. Dramatically shortening the production process of three weeks for outsourced products, Brightwake’s in-house use of the Stratasys 3D printer saved the company time and cut its prototyping costs by an astonishing 96 percent, saving about £1000 per piece.
According to Cotton, “3D printing has not only enabled us to cut our own costs, it has also been crucial in actually getting a functional device to clinical trials. The ability to 3D print parts that look, feel and perform like the final product, on-the-fly, is the future of medical device manufacturing.”
While the devices costs are low, the blood saving potential is high. However, with the technology still in the developmental stages, patients will still need to resort to receiving blood transfusions for the foreseeable future.
When asked about this new life and blood saving innovation, Jonathan Feldstein, Director of the Heart to Heart foundation, which supports Israel’s national blood bank, said; “While new, entrepreneurial and creative technology such as this are exciting and may have an impact in saving lives one day, the bottom line is that Israel’s blood supply comes entirely from donors in Israel and Jewish and Christian tourists, and the cost to protect and preserve Israel’s blood supply is great.”
“Heart to Heart is proud both to bring people visiting Israel to donate blood which benefits all Israelis and many of our neighbors and foreigners in Israel, and to generate financial resources to ensure Israel always has a safe and plentiful blood supply.”
Heart to Heart has run numerous successful blood drives of visiting groups of Christian and Jewish tourist in the past few months, while enabling those abroad to make a “virtual” blood donation by donating money to help facilitate blood transfusions in Israel.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/15065/israeli-3d-printing-creates-religiously-ethical-blood-collection-machine/#62RkxxOKUP1r5opX.99
HemoSep is a one-of-a-kind machine that recovers blood lost or spilled during major trauma and open-heart surgeries, recycling the blood and allowing for its quick transfusion back into the patient. Known as autotransfusion, this process reduces the need for donor blood in a surgery and eliminates any possible complications tied to transfusion reactions. For religious individuals in particular who refuse donor blood, HemoSep’s blood recycling technology could be a real life-saver.
“The Hemosep consists of a bag that uses chemical sponge technology and a mechanical agitator to concentrate blood sucked from a surgical site or drained from a heart-lung machine after surgery,” explained Brightwake’s Director of Research and Development, Steve Cotton to NoCamels. “The cells are then returned to the patient via blood transfusion. In a climate of blood shortage, this recycling methodology has the potential to be a game-changer in the medical industry, saving the National Health Service (NHS) millions.”
With the desire to get the HemoSep’s live-saving blood recycling technology on the market sooner, Brightwake turned to 3D printed prototype parts to save time and money. Dramatically shortening the production process of three weeks for outsourced products, Brightwake’s in-house use of the Stratasys 3D printer saved the company time and cut its prototyping costs by an astonishing 96 percent, saving about £1000 per piece.
According to Cotton, “3D printing has not only enabled us to cut our own costs, it has also been crucial in actually getting a functional device to clinical trials. The ability to 3D print parts that look, feel and perform like the final product, on-the-fly, is the future of medical device manufacturing.”
While the devices costs are low, the blood saving potential is high. However, with the technology still in the developmental stages, patients will still need to resort to receiving blood transfusions for the foreseeable future.
When asked about this new life and blood saving innovation, Jonathan Feldstein, Director of the Heart to Heart foundation, which supports Israel’s national blood bank, said; “While new, entrepreneurial and creative technology such as this are exciting and may have an impact in saving lives one day, the bottom line is that Israel’s blood supply comes entirely from donors in Israel and Jewish and Christian tourists, and the cost to protect and preserve Israel’s blood supply is great.”
“Heart to Heart is proud both to bring people visiting Israel to donate blood which benefits all Israelis and many of our neighbors and foreigners in Israel, and to generate financial resources to ensure Israel always has a safe and plentiful blood supply.”
Heart to Heart has run numerous successful blood drives of visiting groups of Christian and Jewish tourist in the past few months, while enabling those abroad to make a “virtual” blood donation by donating money to help facilitate blood transfusions in Israel.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/15065/israeli-3d-printing-creates-religiously-ethical-blood-collection-machine/#62RkxxOKUP1r5opX.99
There is a new world out there revolving around the phenomenon of 3D-Printing. People have printed everything from cars to new houses for the poor, shoes and art, and even new organs. This technology has already begun changing the world. Now, one of the world leaders in the realm of 3D printing, American-Israeli company Stratasys, has partnered with British company Brightwake (Advancis Medical) to produce a life-saving and religiously ethical blood collection machine.
HemoSep is a one-of-a-kind machine that recovers blood lost or spilled during major trauma and open-heart surgeries, recycling the blood and allowing for its quick transfusion back into the patient. Known as autotransfusion, this process reduces the need for donor blood in a surgery and eliminates any possible complications tied to transfusion reactions. For religious individuals in particular who refuse donor blood, HemoSep’s blood recycling technology could be a real life-saver.
“The Hemosep consists of a bag that uses chemical sponge technology and a mechanical agitator to concentrate blood sucked from a surgical site or drained from a heart-lung machine after surgery,” explained Brightwake’s Director of Research and Development, Steve Cotton to NoCamels. “The cells are then returned to the patient via blood transfusion. In a climate of blood shortage, this recycling methodology has the potential to be a game-changer in the medical industry, saving the National Health Service (NHS) millions.”
With the desire to get the HemoSep’s live-saving blood recycling technology on the market sooner, Brightwake turned to 3D printed prototype parts to save time and money. Dramatically shortening the production process of three weeks for outsourced products, Brightwake’s in-house use of the Stratasys 3D printer saved the company time and cut its prototyping costs by an astonishing 96 percent, saving about £1000 per piece.
According to Cotton, “3D printing has not only enabled us to cut our own costs, it has also been crucial in actually getting a functional device to clinical trials. The ability to 3D print parts that look, feel and perform like the final product, on-the-fly, is the future of medical device manufacturing.”
While the devices costs are low, the blood saving potential is high. However, with the technology still in the developmental stages, patients will still need to resort to receiving blood transfusions for the foreseeable future.
When asked about this new life and blood saving innovation, Jonathan Feldstein, Director of the Heart to Heart foundation, which supports Israel’s national blood bank, said; “While new, entrepreneurial and creative technology such as this are exciting and may have an impact in saving lives one day, the bottom line is that Israel’s blood supply comes entirely from donors in Israel and Jewish and Christian tourists, and the cost to protect and preserve Israel’s blood supply is great.”
“Heart to Heart is proud both to bring people visiting Israel to donate blood which benefits all Israelis and many of our neighbors and foreigners in Israel, and to generate financial resources to ensure Israel always has a safe and plentiful blood supply.”
Heart to Heart has run numerous successful blood drives of visiting groups of Christian and Jewish tourist in the past few months, while enabling those abroad to make a “virtual” blood donation by donating money to help facilitate blood transfusions in Israel.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/15065/israeli-3d-printing-creates-religiously-ethical-blood-collection-machine/#62RkxxOKUP1r5opX.99
HemoSep is a one-of-a-kind machine that recovers blood lost or spilled during major trauma and open-heart surgeries, recycling the blood and allowing for its quick transfusion back into the patient. Known as autotransfusion, this process reduces the need for donor blood in a surgery and eliminates any possible complications tied to transfusion reactions. For religious individuals in particular who refuse donor blood, HemoSep’s blood recycling technology could be a real life-saver.
“The Hemosep consists of a bag that uses chemical sponge technology and a mechanical agitator to concentrate blood sucked from a surgical site or drained from a heart-lung machine after surgery,” explained Brightwake’s Director of Research and Development, Steve Cotton to NoCamels. “The cells are then returned to the patient via blood transfusion. In a climate of blood shortage, this recycling methodology has the potential to be a game-changer in the medical industry, saving the National Health Service (NHS) millions.”
With the desire to get the HemoSep’s live-saving blood recycling technology on the market sooner, Brightwake turned to 3D printed prototype parts to save time and money. Dramatically shortening the production process of three weeks for outsourced products, Brightwake’s in-house use of the Stratasys 3D printer saved the company time and cut its prototyping costs by an astonishing 96 percent, saving about £1000 per piece.
According to Cotton, “3D printing has not only enabled us to cut our own costs, it has also been crucial in actually getting a functional device to clinical trials. The ability to 3D print parts that look, feel and perform like the final product, on-the-fly, is the future of medical device manufacturing.”
While the devices costs are low, the blood saving potential is high. However, with the technology still in the developmental stages, patients will still need to resort to receiving blood transfusions for the foreseeable future.
When asked about this new life and blood saving innovation, Jonathan Feldstein, Director of the Heart to Heart foundation, which supports Israel’s national blood bank, said; “While new, entrepreneurial and creative technology such as this are exciting and may have an impact in saving lives one day, the bottom line is that Israel’s blood supply comes entirely from donors in Israel and Jewish and Christian tourists, and the cost to protect and preserve Israel’s blood supply is great.”
“Heart to Heart is proud both to bring people visiting Israel to donate blood which benefits all Israelis and many of our neighbors and foreigners in Israel, and to generate financial resources to ensure Israel always has a safe and plentiful blood supply.”
Heart to Heart has run numerous successful blood drives of visiting groups of Christian and Jewish tourist in the past few months, while enabling those abroad to make a “virtual” blood donation by donating money to help facilitate blood transfusions in Israel.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/15065/israeli-3d-printing-creates-religiously-ethical-blood-collection-machine/#62RkxxOKUP1r5opX.99
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