Medtech Insight's News We're Watching highlights a few noteworthy industry developments you might have missed: Accenture's new Vision Report addresses the future of "more human" tech in health care; Efemoral secures FDA's breakthrough status for its bioresorbable peripheral stent; Impulse Dynamics secures $135m to support its cardiac contractility modulation; PrecisionLife and Metrodora announced a partnership to address chronic diseases including long COVID; Cardio Diagnostics launches its cardiac epigenetic/genetic tests in a Walmart near Chicago.

The EFEMORAL I trial is the first-in-human study of the start-up company’s FlexStep technology in patients with symptomatic femoropopliteal artery disease.

The $320k grant will support research that builds on IQuity’s autoimmune diagnostic expertise and new data analytics platform. The company believes the emerging therapies for Alzheimer's will be most effective if they are used to treat the disease early in its progression.

Nashville-based genomics company iQuity is building a data mining and analytics platform that will predict and monitor chronic diseases from public and private datasets from large populations.