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Home » MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for April 12, 2016

MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016 By MassDevice

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Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry.

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5. Halyard Health picks up Corpak Medsystems

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Halyard Health said today it picked up enternal access solutions company Corpak MedSystems for $174 million.

Corpak, a Linden Capital Partners portfolio company, develops, manufactures and markets a range of branded enternal access devices, Halyard Health said. Read more


4. Biotronik wins FDA nod for BioMonitor 2

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Biotronik said today it won FDA premarket approval for its BioMonitor 2 magnetic resonance imaging-compatible insertable cardiac remote monitor.

The BioMonitor 2 device is designed for remote monitoring of patients with atrial fibrillation, syncope, bradycardia and tachychardia, Biotronik said. The device uses Biotronik’s ProMRI technology and is approved for full-body MRI scans at 1.5 and 3 tesla strength. Read more


3. DJO Global, Zimmer-Biomet’s EBI finally escape bone-growth stimulator suit

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It took 11 years, but DJO Global and Zimmer Biomet subsidiary EBI finally escaped the civil side of a False Claims Act lawsuit yesterday alleging that they defrauded Medicare with the sale of bone-growth stimulators.

The suit, filed in 2005 by the owner of a Missouri durable medical equipment billing services company named Jeffrey Bierman, alleged that a raft of companies submitted false Medicare claims for the osteogenesis stimulators. The claims for purchasing the devices should have been made for renting them, Bierman alleged; furthermore, the devices were prescribed for much longer periods of time than was medically necessary, he claimed in the lawsuit. Read more


2. Stryker spree continues with SafeWire asset buy

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Stryker continued its acquisition spree yesterday with the purchase of SafeWire’s spine device line for an undisclosed amount.

SafeWire’s Y-Wire guidewire and Tiger Jamshidi needle family are slated to join Stryker Spine’s portfolio of minimally invasive devices, the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based company said. Read more


1. Foundry spinout Fire1 raises $7.5m Series B

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Stealthy Irish medical device startup Fire1 said today that its investors, including Medtronic, put up another $7.5 million for its Series B round.

Dublin-based Fire1, a spinout from medical device incubator The Foundry, also said it tapped former ResMed executive Conor Hanley to be its president & CEO and added another pair of senior leaders. Read more

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