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Boston Scientific to acquire Preventice Solutions

January 21, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) announced today that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Preventice Solutions. Minneapolis-based Preventice designs mobile health solutions and remote monitoring services for patients with cardiac arrhythmias. Its wearables include the PatientCare platform and BodyGuardian family of monitors. Preventice’s BodyGuardian monitors use a fully-integrated, cloud-based platform for clinical technicians and AI algorithms […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Diagnostics, Featured, Health Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Software / IT Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Preventice

Abbott’s MitraClip receives boost as CMS expands coverage for TMVR

January 20, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Abbott (NYSE:ABT) announced today that CMS revised its coverage for TMVR, opening up new possibilities for its MitraClip device. The CMS National Coverage Determination (NCD) expands coverage for transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) to include patients with secondary (or functional) mitral regurgitation (MR) resulting from heart failure. According to an Abbott news release, the CMS decision […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, Medicare, Replacement Heart Valves, Structural Heart Tagged With: Abbott, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), TMVR

Hillrom to buy Bardy Diagnostics for $375M

January 19, 2021 By Chris Newmarker Leave a Comment

Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) has agreed to spend $375 million to acquire Bardy Diagnostics and its Carnation Ambulatory Monitor, or CAM patch. Analysts at Baird described the CAM patch as a long-term Holter wearable biosensor. Hillrom said in a news release out today that the BardyDx purchase complements Hillrom’s present cardiology portfolio of cardiac stress exercise, Holter and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Featured, Mergers & Acquisitions Tagged With: Bardy Diagnostics, Hillrom

These medtech stocks performed the best in 2020

January 15, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

While 2020 did not go as planned for anyone, with the twists and turns came opportunities for medtech companies to power forward. Innovations came both as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and perhaps in spite of the challenges brought on by the virus, highlighted by the increased efforts to produce vaccines and testing while […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Big Data, Business/Financial News, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Diagnostics, Drug-Device Combinations, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Funding Roundup, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, Health Technology, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Orthopedics, Regulatory/Compliance, Replacement Heart Valves, Research & Development, Respiratory, Robotics, Software / IT, Structural Heart, Surgical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott, Abiomed, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dexcom, Edwards Lifesciences, Hologic, Intuitive Surgical, iRhythm Technologies Inc., Masimo, ResMed, ResMed Inc., Stryker

Apple magnetic charger, smartwatch may deactivate Medtronic ICD

January 13, 2021 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

A new study in the Heart Rhythm Journal showed a magnetic charger for the iPhone 12 was able to deactivate a Medtronic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). The iPhone 12 has a circular array of magnets deployed around a central charging coil, making it compatible with the company’s wireless “MagSafe” accessories, according to the study published Jan. 4, […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, Research & Development Tagged With: Apple, Medtronic

Boston Scientific’s preliminary Q4 results show 6.8% revenue decline

January 12, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) announced today that its fourth-quarter net sales represent an approximate decline of 6.8% year-over-year. Marlborough, Mass.-based Boston Scientific’s estimation of $2.71 billion in fourth-quarter revenue brings its full-year 2020 sales total to approximately $9.91 billion, marking a 7.7% total decline from 2019. Wall Street analysts on average had predicted $2.86 billion in revenue […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Neurological, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Structural Heart, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Boston Scientific

Medtronic’s Kowal explains how remote medtech got its groove back

January 8, 2021 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Dr. Robert Kowal CMO of Medtronic’s cardiac rhythm and heart failure business and vice president of medical affairs, explains how new tech, savvy patients, eager physicians and, yes, COVID-19, has fueled a renaissance for remote technology, once seen as a mature, staid business. Kowal, who left clinical practice to […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Health Technology, Software / IT, Structural Heart, Structural Heart Tagged With: haven, Medtronic, Silicon Valley Bank, Smith & Nephew, Stryker, svbleerink

CES 2021: Medical technologies you need to know

January 8, 2021 By Danielle Kirsh

There are fewer mobile health devices and wearables to check out as this year’s CES goes virtual — with a trend toward medtech to slow the spread of COVID-19. Scheduled for Jan. 11–14, CES 2021 will feature 419 digital health and 219 wearable devices, down from 546 and 635 devices, respectively, presented at CES 2020. […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Featured, Research & Development Tagged With: Atlantic Therapeutics, Axion Research, Binah.ai, CES, coronavirus, Covestro, COVID-19, GateDoc, iMediSync, LuftQI

Ablacon raises $30m in Series B fundraising round

January 8, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Ajax Health-backed Ablacon announced that it closed a Series B financing round worth $30 million with a new lead investor. Zeus Health joined as the new lead investor in the financing, while the company announced that Beaumont Health (Royal Oak, Mich.) Heart Rhythm Center director Dr. David Haines was appointed to Ablacon’s scientific advisory board, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Featured, Funding Roundup Tagged With: ablacon

Volta Medical raises $28M for Afib treatment tech

January 7, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Volta Medical announced this week that it raised $28 million in a financing round for its AI algorithms for treating cardiac arrhythmias. Marseille, France-based Volta Medical said in a news release that the $28 million, raised in a round led by Gilde Healthcare with participation from existing shareholder Pasteur Mutualité, will help the company establish […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Featured, Funding Roundup, Health Technology, Software / IT, Structural Heart Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Volta Medical

CorWave raises $40m in funding for breakthrough heart pump

January 6, 2021 By Sean Whooley

CorWave announced today that it raised $40 million from a mix of returning and new investors for its wave membrane heart pump. Clichy, France-based CorWave received funding — from three new investors joining its returning investors — which is earmarked for its implantable left ventricular assist device (LVAD) which uses its breakthrough wave membrane pump […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, Funding Roundup, Replacement Heart Valves, Structural Heart Tagged With: CorWave

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