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Moffitt Cancer Center Advances Patient Standard of Care by Introducing Needleless Blood Draws
Moffitt Cancer Center has adopted a new needle-free method of blood collection for patients in treatment who often need to undergo repeated needle sticks in a day, becoming the first cancer center in Florida to offer this pain-free technology as part of its world-class cancer care.
Holy Name Adopts PIVO and Continues to Build on its Reputation as a Technology and Clinical Practice Innovator
Holy Name Medical Center today announced that it is the first hospital in New Jersey among a growing number of health systems nationwide to offer needle-free blood draws for inpatients using the PIVO™ device from vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular. As part of this effort, Holy Name is deploying a new telepresence technology, also provided by Velano, to train staff virtually on the PIVO procedure in accordance with COVID-19 safety protocols
Velano’s Vascular Access Technologies Help Hospitals Meet 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular today revealed that the 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, 8th Ed., include its needle free PIVO™ device and evidence of the procedure’s improved performance for inpatient blood draws.
Velano Vascular Named Top Impact Company for 2021 by Real Leaders
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular was today named a Top Impact Company for 2021 by Real Leaders, the world’s first business and sustainable leadership magazine. Velano was recognized alongside such notable brands as Tesla, Beyond Meat, and Patagonia on the 2021 list for its work making hospital stays more humane and less risky for both patients and practitioners.
Velano Vascular Makes Streamlined Virtual Training Tools Available to U.S. Hospitals to Aid in the COVID-19 Response
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular this past week made its new streamlined remote training program widely available for hospitals around the nation. Initially developed with existing partners utilizing its PIVO™ needle-free blood draw device in the fight against COVID-19, the platform is now available for additional hospitals and systems in need of streamlined care.
PIVO Enables Healthcare Practitioners to Obtain Blood Samples without a Needle Stick
Clinical laboratories know full well that patients do not like being stuck by needles. And hospital administrators know that increasing the hospital’s patient-satisfaction scores is important for Medicare hospital accreditation. This is why hospital administrators are devoting more attention—and budget dollars—to products that have the potential to reduce the pain experienced by patients. And patient satisfaction surveys...
New Technology Leads to Decreased Hemolysis Rates
Laboratories in an increasing number of U. S. hospitals and healthcare systems are seeing significantly lower hemolysis rates in the blood specimens their staff are collecting with new technology designed for drawing blood with a single-use, sterile device that advances into the vein through a peripheral IV (PIV). The technology, PIVO (Velano Vascular, San Francisco, California), is a needle-free blood collection device that attaches to a PIV and is used as an alternative to venipunctures...
S.F.-based startup raises $25M to expand blood collection technologies
San Francisco medical device company Velano Vascular closed a $25 million second round of financing, bringing its total overall to $50 million. The new capital will go toward expanding its needle-less blood draw device and to developing new technologies. CEO Eric Stone would not reveal what these new technologies will entail but said they will fall within the company’s mission of reducing the costs and risk of infections associated with blood draws.
