AdvaMed announced today that it has named Ashley McEvoy, EVP of MedTech at Johnson & Johnson, as its new chair. The group’s board of directors unanimously elected McEvoy as its chair during its quarterly meeting yesterday. She is the first woman to serve as chair at the major U.S. medical technology trade association, which was […]
What could medtech lose from the Silicon Valley Bank shutdown?
A host of medtech companies dodged the loss of billions of dollars in Silicon Valley Bank deposits — but the space still faces challenges. That is one of the big takeaways from the latest DeviceTalks Weekly podcast. The FDIC shuttered Silicon Valley Bank on March 10 to stave off a bank run amid depositor concerns […]
Asensus secures pediatric indication for its robotic surgery system
Asensus Surgical announced today that FDA has cleared an expanded pediatric indication for its Senhance robotic surgery system. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina–based Asensus says Senhance is the first and only digital laparoscopic surgery solution for pediatric patients. During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings announcement early this month, it said it expected the pediatric indication this […]
Prolira secures FDA clearance for its DeltaScan brain state monitor
Prolira (Utrecht, the Netherlands) announced today that the FDA has cleared its brain state monitor to help diagnose acute encephalopathy in older hospital patients. DeltaScan is for hospitalized patients aged 60 and older. Prolira said it provides a quick and objective measurement of acute brain failure even before symptoms appear. The measurements enable sped-up treatment, […]
Getinge acquires Ultra Clean Systems for $16M
Swedish medtech company Getinge announced today that it will pay SEK 170 million ($16 million) to acquire Ultra Clean Systems and its ultrasonic cleaning tech. Getinge has already been the exclusive North American distributor of Tampa, Florida–based Ultra Clean Systems’ offerings for nearly a decade. Health providers use ultrasonic cleaning tech in hospitals and surgery […]
Owens & Minor lays off 61 workers in Massachusetts
Owens & Minor laid off 61 employees at its distribution center in Franklin, Massachusetts, according to a WARN report filed with the state. The layoff took place on Feb. 17, according to the notice. It was more than a week before O&M announced a corporate realignment amid mixed fourth-quarter results. At the time, Owens & […]
Zoll data breach affects more than 1 million people
More than 1 million people may have had personal data compromised during a recent hacking of Zoll Medical’s systems. That’s according to a notice that Zoll filed with Maine’s attorney general, one of a number filed with federal and state agencies since the data breach in late January. Operated out of Massachusetts, Zoll is an […]
The top orthopedic device news out of AAOS 2023
Stryker’s next-gen Mako total robotic knee surgery system and more AI integration for Zimmer Biomet’s ZBEdge surgical platform topped the news at this year’s AAOS 2023. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2023 annual meeting drew top medical and medtech talent to Las Vegas from March 7–11. Here is a roundup of major news coming […]
Johnson & Johnson cuts nearly 350 surgical robotics jobs
Johnson & Johnson is letting go of nearly 350 employees in the surgical robotics space, according to layoff notices filed in California at the beginning of this month. The WARN notices list layoffs involving 292 workers at Auris, 47 at Verb Surgical, and four at Ethicon Endo-Surgery. All of the jobs were based in Santa […]
Smith+Nephew data backs its patient-specific knee surgery tools
Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN) has published a systemic literature review that backs its Visionaire patient-specific instrumentation for knee surgeries. The research was published online by the Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. It included a meta-analysis of 25 relevant studies that compared Visionaire-enabled total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with conventional instrumentation-enabled TKA. The analysis demonstrated improvements in […]
Johnson & Johnson is cutting jobs in its MedTech business
Johnson & Johnson announced restructuring and layoffs to employees over the past week that could eliminate at least 1,000 jobs, according to people inside and outside of the company. The reorganization included folding the company’s Mitek Sports Medicine business into another business, according to Rajit Kamal, the outgoing worldwide president of sports medicine and shoulder […]