Barry Shrier, Founder of annual health innovation event Giant Live, presents the third Disruptor Giant Health Innovators TV interview featuring Giovanna Forte, CEO of Forte Medical, Francis White from AliveCor, Dr Sophie Bostock of Sleepio and Etienne Bourdon from Healthy Health. Watch the half-hour programme here with Disruptive Live
As has been highlighted in other posts, the ABHI has been an incredibly useful partner in establishing Forte Medical in the US. This webinar, held yesterday features our story as part of the ABHI’s US Market Overview Presentation. To hear the presentation, register here.
“The entrepreneurs celebrated in this year’s Maserati 100 like to get things done’ said Sunday Times’ journalist Andrew Lynch in his introduction to this year’s list of the top 100 entrepreneurs in 2018. And that is pretty true of Forte Medical’s founder and CEO, Giovanna Forte who was featured in the People’s Choice. Giovanna set […]
News from the USA: “the share of bacterial infections in the United States that were antibiotic resistant more than doubled over 13 years, rising from 5.2% in 2002 to 11% in 2014” To read more, click here
In elderly patients, a UTI can induce behaviour that may be interpreted as “challenging”. As millions of us know, UTI is at best uncomfortable, at worst jolly painful. Giovanna Forte was invited by Age Space to explain further. Read the article in full here
Symptoms of urinary tract infections can be acute and in many cases, very debilitating. The need for a protocol around the collection of urine specimens to correctly diagnose and treat is critical. Read this interesting news segment from CBC Radio.
At the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Annual Congress in Singapore last week, Dr Michelle Jie presented her Abstract of results from the The Royal Surrey County Hospital Antenatal trial of Peezy Midstream. The paper confirms that compared with a historic 15.9% MSUs sent inappropriately for culture, Peezy Midstream technology delivered specimen contamination of […]
How easy is Peezy? Very! Click here to see our new animation showing five simple steps that deliver right-first-time urine specimen collection. Any clinician will know that contamination can prevent or delay diagnoses; Peezy makes prompt analysis, diagnosis and treatment simple and cost effective.
Giovanna Forte is one of the guest speakers at this two day and her presentation: “Urine Trouble – How Innovation is Transforming Basic Medicine” – will be given on Thursday, 26th April at 1.30 pm. For further information about the event conference and exhibition go here
Despite its importance, there is no standard for urine collection. In this article the author, Professor Frank Chinegwundoh, discusses the problem of inadequate samples and describes a collection system that can help. Visit the Jan-Feb issue of Trends in Urology & Men’s Health.