“There are many instances in which the scan chosen by a doctor for a patient is not the optimum scan to arrive at the correct diagnosis in the most efficient manner. “The lack of efficiency in the delivery and provision of radiology services is a significant problem and is pervasive globally,” he said. O’Gorman explained that the rapid pace of advancement in medical imaging makes the landscape increasingly complex for doctors to navigate and to refer patients for “the best test first”.
‘Covid-19 has been a huge challenge for the Irish health sector, but it has also accelerated the adoption of innovative solutions’ That platform is xRefer, a radiology referral tool that xWave has developed in partnership with the European Society of Radiology. “This has allowed us to develop the platform, implement inside hospitals and set the stage for rapid growth,” O’Gorman added. This Dublin-based health-tech start-up has already raised €600,000 in pre-seed funding, primarily from medical and business professionals. “The vision of xWave Technologies is to deliver smart healthcare platforms that empower patients and their clinicians to access the best healthcare solutions at the touch of a button,” said CEO Mitchell O’Gorman. "I'm retired.Health-tech start-up xWave Technologies was formed just as healthcare systems around the world received an urgent dose of digital transformation.
"Actually, I can't quit my day job," he added, chucking. "It's been fun," Ellenberger said, "but I'm not quitting my day job. Everything about this illuminating first novel feels wholly authentic." The authors have collected plugs from the likes of Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post staffer David Maraniss, who called them "three aces of the spy thriller genre. James.Īccording to Ellenberger, the project started as a screenplay but morphed into a novel to allow more three-dimensional characters.Īdvance word on "High Hand" is good. They composed their pen name as a portmanteau of their real first names: Curtis J. Some expert editors and volunteer readers helped, too, Ellenberger said. Rosen, the journalist in the group, took charge of smoothing things together.
The threesome rented a house near the Shenandoah Valley for a long weekend and began plotting and dividing up assignments. Rosen is a political correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers. Harris is a physician and researcher who heads a laboratory at the National Cancer Institute. As such he met an array of key figures of the last 40 years, including Lech Walesa, Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. "Jim Rosen kept saying, 'One of these days, I'm going to write the Great American Novel.' And Curtis - he's the brains of the group - decides we're going to do it together."Įllenberger, a Vietnam veteran, was a longtime executive with the AFL-CIO who spent much of his time in its international sections. "We were playing squash," Ellenberger said. Ellenberger happens to live at Ocean Ridge Plantation near Ocean Isle Beach. James" is actually a pseudonym for three collaborators - Curtis Harris, James Rosen and James Ellenberger. That's not the biggest secret behind "High Hand," though. ambassador to Russia.Ĭould the Russians be behind it? Could the crime have something to do with xWave - a device being developed by the Senator's company, which can transmit and receive brain waves? In it, a bomb blast nearly kills a Republican candidate for president - a U.S.
"High Hand" should find a ready market among lovers of political thrillers. On Tuesday, Copper Peak Press will release "High Hand," a debut novel for Curtis J.
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