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Tom Salemi

DTW Podcast: Can Boston Scientific close the gap?

September 26, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Following the killing of George Floyd in June, medtech companies stood strongly against inequality and racism and promised to push for change. Boston Scientific’s executive committee, including CEO Michael Mahoney, issued one of the earliest statements to condemn “injustice and discrimination and to reaffirm our commitment to live by our values and cultivate a workplace […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Women's Health Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Brigham and Women's Hospital, DeviceTalks Weekly, Farapulse, Harvard Medical School, NanoVibronix Inc

DTW Podcast: 3 lessons learned from Leslie Trigg, CEO of Outset Medical

September 19, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Outset Medical (NSDQ:OM) CEO Leslie Trigg took the helm at the dialysis start-up in 2013, moving from an executive-in-residence post at private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Before that she held senior positions at Lutonix, AccessClosure and FoxHollow, helping to position those companies to be acquired by CR Bard, Cardinal Health, and ev3/Covidien, respectively. This week, […]

Filed Under: Dialysis, Digital Health, Featured, Health Technology, Hospital Care, Imaging, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Robotics, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Corindus Vascular Robotics, Hologic, Outset Medical, Smith & Nephew, Varian Medical Systems

Smith+Nephew sees new way into the OR

September 15, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Smith+Nephew (NYSE:SNN) sales representatives and consulting surgeons will have a direct new, albeit electronic path, into operating rooms. The London-based medical device maker signed a deal with Avail Medsystems, a startup that’s bringing a high-level telecommunication system to operating rooms and surgery centers. The Avail system includes a self-standing unit equipped with a camera and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Technology, Orthopedics Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, DeviceTalks, Smith & Nephew

Ambu, Boston Sci execs see domination for single-use scopes

September 11, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Hospital closures connected to COVID-19 have cut into the sales of many medical device companies, but executives at rival makers of single-use scopes say pandemic has only heightened existing concerns about contamination, exposure and cost. In interviews in this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, executives from Ambu A/S  and Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX)  said improved technology make […]

Filed Under: Endoscopic, Featured Tagged With: Ambu, Bardy Diagnostics, Boston Scientific, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Holmes, Joe Biden, Kevin Hykes, Theranica Bio-Electronics, Theranos

DTW Podcast: KCK’s Long says deals getting done during COVID era

September 8, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Karen Long, managing director at KCK Group, says startups looking for funding have an opportunity to catch the eye and ear of investors. KCK, an active medtech investor, has been involved in two sizable investments this summer including Aerin Medical and NeuroPace. Both were portfolio companies, but Long says […]

Filed Under: Blog, Business/Financial News, Device Talks Podcasts, Featured Tagged With: Aerin Medical, DeviceTalks Weekly, IBM, Medtronic, NeuroPace, Thrive Earlier Detection Corp.

DTW Podcast: Truist’s Kaila Krum says Medtronic prepping for growth

August 29, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In an interview with DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Truist Securities managing director Kaila Krum says Medtronic executives are retooling the company to keep pace with smaller, more focused competitors. Breaking down the company’s Q1 call, Krum says Medtronic is seen as a company that’s too big to grow market share quickly. On the call, new CEO […]

Filed Under: Bioelectronic Medicine, Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Funding Roundup, Health Technology, Imaging, Robotics, Ultrasound, Wall Street Beat, Women's Health Tagged With: Abbott, Action Potential Venture Capital, Boston Scientific, Exo Imaging, GlaxoSmithKline plc, iRhythm Technologies Inc., Medtronic, Pelvital, Truist Securities

DTW Podcast: Can Fractyl Labs and Cala Health go where only drugs have gone before?

August 21, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, co-costs Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker walk through this week’s “Newmarker’s Newsmakers,” the Top Five #medtech stories of the week with news coming from CureVac, Avail Medsystems, ClearMask, Thermo Fisher and Bayer. We also hear from CEO Harith Rajagopalan, MD and CFO Lisa Davidson of Fractyl Laboratories, which is […]

Filed Under: Bioelectronic Medicine, Biotech, Device Talks Podcasts, Diabetes, Featured, Initial Public Offering (IPO) Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Bayer, Cala Health, ClearMask, CureVac, Fractyl Laboratories, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Cala cites positive data in Trio tremor trial

August 17, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Bioelectronic company Cala Health released positive data from its ongoing PROSPECT trial demonstrating that a majority of patients using its  FDA-cleared Cala Trio device reported a reduction in hand tremors. The study — published in Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements — enrolled 263 patients with essential tremor across 26 sites. Patients wore the Trio on […]

Filed Under: Bioelectronic Medicine, Clinical Trials, Featured Tagged With: Abbott, Cala Health, Intuitive Surgical, Novartis

FDA gives additional OK to point-of-care MRI

August 17, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Hyperfine Research Inc. will begin rolling out a commercial launch for its Swoop Portable MR imaging device after receiving an additional 510(k) approval from the FDA, which will permit the system to be used on newborns and infants. In a release, the Guilford, Conn.-based company defines Swoop as a “point-of-care MR imaging device that wheels […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Featured, Imaging, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: Hyperfine Research

DTW Podcast: Vizient on PPE, Vicarious on VR-aided robotics and let’s all hope for pumpernickel

August 14, 2020 By Tom Salemi

This week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly is brought to you by the later V, as in Vizient and Vicarious Surgical. Bharat Sundaram, COO and president of Vizient, will share how the healthcare supplier is strengthening the supply of PPE for hospitals. He’ll also reveal when the company expects to see US hospitals running at pre-COVID […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Hospital Care, Robotics Tagged With: C.R. Bard, CooperVision, Medtronic, Neurolief, Theranos, Vicarious Surgical, vizient

This telemedicine system could get medtech sales reps back to ORs

August 13, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Daniel Hawkins’ surprise isn’t a matter of what, but when. The successful medtech executive and former Shockwave Medical CEO fully expected medical device makers would see Avail Medsystem’s telemedicine system as a more efficient way for sales reps to sit in on surgeries. By Hawkins’ projections, Avail’s system would eliminate much of the time sales […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Featured, Health Information Technology, Health Technology, Surgical Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Shockwave Medical

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