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EY says COVID-19 stunted medtech M&A in 2020, should see improvement in 2021

January 11, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Ernst & Young today released its 2021 EY M&A Firepower report, revealing a staggering dip in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in medtech. Life sciences M&A activity totaled $159 billion in 2020, according to the report — a plunge to nearly half of the 2019 total of $306 billion, representing one of the lowest levels […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Emerging Markets, Featured, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Ernst & Young, EY

CB Insights reports digital health, global healthcare investment funding records

October 20, 2020 By Sean Whooley

CB Insights reported record funding for global healthcare and digital health, among other milestones during the third quarter. Global healthcare investments to private companies hit a new quarterly record of $21.8 billion in the third quarter of this year, with a total of 1,539 equity investments in the three-month period growing 18% from the previous […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diabetes, Digital Health, Emerging Markets, Featured, Funding Roundup, Health Information Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Neurological, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Research & Development, Robotics, Software / IT, Surgical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: CB Insights, coronavirus, COVID-19, Medtronic

Medtronic execs see quick recovery, increased M&A

May 21, 2020 By Tom Salemi

If Medtronic’s troubling Q4 report offers a snapshot of a company hit hard by COVID-19, the next image in the sequence may show a faster-than-expected recovery and increased merger-and-acquisition of smaller companies. In the quarterly call on Thursday morning, Medtronic CEO Geoff Martha and CFO Karen Parkhill expressed optimism that the company’s businesses already are […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Emerging Markets, Featured, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Medtronic

How do medtech investors, CEOs manage portfolio companies going forward?

May 15, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In Episode 10 of DeviceTalks Weekly, we talk with two successful starters of medtech companies about how they’re building and maintaining their medtech portfolios during this pandemic landscape. Our guests this week are Dr. Justin Klein, managing partner of Vensana Capital, and Duke Rohlen, chair of Ajax Health. Together, Klein and Rohlen have created, backed and sold […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Device Talks Podcasts, Emerging Markets, Featured Tagged With: ajaxhealth, coronavirus, COVID-19, DeviceTalks, DeviceTalks Weekly, Vensana Capital

Medtech startups rack up strong VC totals in Q1, but future uncertain, SVB says

May 4, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Medtech startups raising venture capital in the first quarter kept the strong pace from 2019, according to  an analysis by Silicon Valley Bank. But the uncertainty over the pandemic likely will slow down fund-raising in the second quarter. In an interview with DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Jonathan Norris, managing director, SVB Life Sciences, says  SVB recorded […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Device Talks Podcasts, Emerging Markets, Funding Roundup, Initial Public Offering (IPO) Tagged With: Silicon Valley Bank, Venture Capital/Private Equity

Smile Direct Club aligners now available in-office; stock soars

January 15, 2020 By Sean Whooley

SmileDirectClub (NSDQ:SDC) shares skyrocketed following the announcement that its clear aligners are set to be offered through the wholesale channel in dentist and orthodontist offices. The Nashville, Tenn.-based company’s announcement follows the Dec. 31, 2019, expiration of its exclusive supply agreement with Align Technology (NSDQ:ALGN). After yesterday’s announcement, shares of SDC are up 16.24% at $13.60 per […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Dental, Emerging Markets, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Avalign Technologies, smiledirectclub

Report: Ambulatory surgery centers will shake up medtech

September 25, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

An increase in the number of surgical procedures taking place at ambulatory care centers could change the playing field for medtech companies, according to a new report by Bain & Co. The management consulting firm predicted that procedures at these stand-alone centers could grow by 6% to 7% annually through 2021, with orthopedic, spine and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Emerging Markets, Featured, News Well, Orthopedics, Surgical Tagged With: Bain & Co.

How can medical device companies thrive in the future?

September 20, 2019 By Chris Newmarker

Medical device data is becoming more important than the hardware itself, so medtech companies need to forge a partnership with consumer technology companies to stay innovative, according to a new report from Deloitte. The Deloitte report — called “Winning the Future of Medtech” — came out yesterday in advance of next week’s AdvaMed MedTech Conference […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Emerging Markets, Featured, Health Information Technology, Healthcare Reform, News Well, Software / IT Tagged With: Deloitte, Medtech Conference

Here’s how precision medicine could change medical imaging

February 8, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

The business of precision medical imaging is poised to take off in the next few years, according to a new analysis by Frost & Sullivan. The market research firm’s report, “Growth Opportunities in Precision Medical Imaging, Forecast to 2022,” said new technologies and processes in diagnostic and therapeutic imaging could spur the market to grow […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Emerging Markets, Imaging, News Well Tagged With: Frost & Sullivan, GE Healthcare, Philips, Siemens

Here are the top 5 medtech stories of mid-2018

July 13, 2018 By Chris Newmarker

A growing U.S. trade war with China and other countries casts a pall on medtech — and U.S. business in general — in mid-2018. The landscape of the medical device industry continues to evolve, though. There’s a major corporate spinout in the works, as well as a mega-merger that apparently was not to be. Read […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Emerging Markets, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: AI, Boston Scientific, China, Donald Trump, GE Healthcare, IBM Watson Health, Pelvic Mesh Lawsuits, Stryker, tariffs

China wants to dominate medtech: Here’s how

September 1, 2017 By MassDevice staff

Under its “Made in China 2025” plan, the Chinese government seeks explosive growth in biomedical and high-end medical device manufacturing. Grace Fu Palma, China Med Device In 2015, the China State Council issued a 10-year manufacturing plan called “Made in China 2025.” The goal is to elevate the “giant but weak” Chinese manufacturing industry into […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Emerging Markets, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: China, China Food & Drug Administration (CFDA), Made in China 2025

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