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From Medical Design & Outsourcing

• From toxicologist to CEO: How Kate Rumrill brings high energy to medtech
  Kate Rumrill’s experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries dates back 28 years to her days as a toxicologist with companies such as Sterling Winthrop and Eli Lilly. Now president & CEO of NeoSync, a clinical stage company developing non-invasive neuromodulation devices, Rumrill shifted to clinical research, taking on various roles over the years ranging… […]
• Everything you need to know about medical device creation
  Medtech development is hard. Medical device creation can require manufacturing know-how in areas as wide-ranging as electrical components, high-performance polymers, molding and machining – and that doesn’t even include the required expertise in design, regulatory requirements and achieving reimbursement. The good news is that the companies serving the medical device industry have become specialized experts. Through… […]
• Entrepreneur insights: Q&A with Sana Health’s CEO and founder
  Sana Health’s Richard Hanbury chats about medtech investors, the opioid crisis and the importance of data.   Speaking with Richard Hanbury, you get a sense that he knows exactly why and how his approach to pain management is getting noticed. Hanbury is the force behind Sana, and his life’s story is the foundation on which Sana Health… […]
• Webinar: Here are the medical device outsourcing challenges you need to avoid
  Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 11:30 a.m. Eastern time / 8:30 a.m. Pacific time     Constant cost pressures – coupled with increased expectations to reduce time to market – often require medtech manufacturers to outsource all or part of their device assembly. Medical device outsourcing allows a medtech company or startup to focus on its… […]
• Plastikos constructing new facility
  Plastikos announced today that it has started construction on a new 33,000-square-foot stand-alone medical manufacturing facility, located less than a quarter of a mile from the company’s Erie, Pa. headquarters. Company officials expect the first phase of the project to finish in summer 2019. Plastikos earlier in the decade expanded its existing headquarters by 17,000… […]
• U of Missouri becomes first to ship isotope for thyroid cancer in U.S.
  The University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) recently shipped its first batch of a medical isotope used to diagnose and treat thyroid cancer, making it the first domestic source of Iodine-131 (I-131) in 30 years. I-131 has only an eight-day half-life, making stockpiling impossible, and demand is expected to increase. Thyroid cancer is “the most… […]
• Could AI be the next big thing for medical device manufacturing?
  Officials at machine learning and artificial intelligence consulting company Wovenware think AI could boost the quality of medical device manufacturing. The San Juan, Puerto Rico–based company already has clients in a variety of industries including airlines, education, food, financial services, insurance, telecommunications and utilities. Now it’s working with a number of medical device companies to… […]
• Let others have a chance at success: What Marie Johnson thinks about medtech leadership
  After 12 years as a manufacturing engineer at the brake and wheel spindle bearings divisions of the General Motors in her native Ohio and Michigan, Marie Johnson spent 20 years in senior leadership positions at cardiovascular and orthopedic medical device and diagnostic companies. Johnson is the inventor of AUM Cardiovascular’s patented technology, which is designed… […]
• Women leaders in medtech: Here are insights you need to know
  According to the Center for American Progress, women account for 47% of the country’s labor force and 52% of all professional-level jobs. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reports that just 20% of U.S. high-tech executives, senior officers and management are women, including pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing and medical equipment & supplies manufacturing. If we break… […]
• Here’s what Jennifer Palinchik thinks about medtech and women’s leadership
  Jennifer Palinchik, president of Jalex Medical, used to dream about improving people’s lives through medical innovation. Today she’s living it. A native Clevelander, Palinchik earned a bachelor of science degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Toledo and holds an MBA degree in executive management from Ashland University. She began her career conducting stem… […]
• Students help Sterilogy develop wearable sanitizer system
  A group of college students has developed a series of devices for a Michigan-based company that addresses a common problem for healthcare workers: keeping hands sanitized and clean. The students from Grand Valley State University’s applied Medical Device Institute (aMDI) worked with Sterilogy (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) to develop the hand hygiene compliance system with a… […]