Who Took Home the Gold at the MDEAs?

When all was said and done, Ceribell Inc. took home the ultimate prize at the Medical Design Excellence Awards ceremony. The Mountain View, CA-based company won best-in-show for the Ceribell Rapid Response EEG. The device consists of a disposable headband and a mobile recorder that acquires and transmits data to a HIPAA compliant cloud portal for a specialist to review the patient's EEG from anywhere. “We’re excited that people are as enthusiastic about the technology as we are," Brad Bachedler, Principal Engineer at Ceribell, told MD+DI. Ceribell originally won FDA clearance for the technology in 2017. “From my perspective as an engineer this technology has made a huge impact in how to rapidly be able to diagnose and treat seizures,” Bachedler said. “Currently it takes hours or longer for a clinician to treat it, so the time for treatment is really compressed.” Due to limitations with current EEG systems which can take hours to days, clinicians are expected to treat patients with a lack of information which leads to both overtreatment and undertreatment. This is costly to the healthcare system and puts patients at risk for long-term brain damage or even death. “There are some other things in the pipeline that we’ll be sharing later on,” Bachedler said. The MDEAs accept entries from companies and individuals involve...
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