From Medical Design & Outsourcing

• How a wrist-worn device treats essential tremors
  Cala Health co-founder Kate Rosenbluth developed a solution for essential tremors, a debilitating disorder that can make it difficult to perform daily tasks like drinking from a glass or writing checks. A neuroscientist and engineer by training, Cala Health co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Kate Rosenbluth saw the necessity for an easy treatment option for… […]
• How medical device companies can better protect themselves from lawsuits
  Getting hit with lawsuits isn’t an if, but a when for medical device developers and manufacturers. A veteran Greenberg Traurig lawyer shares advice for staying secure. As with pharmaceutical companies and health providers, medtech is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a great deal of goodwill, says Ginger Pigott, a Greenberg Traurig shareholder. Pigott has… […]
• Freudenberg Medical introduces HelixFlex TPE tubing
  Freudenberg Medical this week announced the launch of its HelixFlex high-purity thermoplastic elastomer tubing. The company says it designed the HelixFlex tubing for biopharmaceutical fluid transfer applications. The expanded offering adds to Freudenberg’s existing pharma product portfolio of silicone tubing and components for bioprocessing, drug and vaccine manufacturing, filling and sampling, peristaltic pumping, lab, and… […]
• Rachel Ellingson is driving Zimmer Biomet toward new tech
  Zimmer Biomet has transformed and reinvented itself through various partnerships and product innovations, and Chief Strategy Officer Rachel Ellingson has been a driving force behind the success.  Zimmer Biomet has been one of the leading orthopedic companies in the medical device industry for many years. With $6.8 billion in revenue for its most recently reported… […]
• Bringing motion to medicine: How Actuated Medical is innovating deep brain stimulation and more
  Actuated Medical is making electrode placement for deep brain stimulation easier and less traumatic. Nearly 16 years ago, Actuated Medical co-founder, President and CEO Maureen Mulvihill was working for a company making actuators that were the size of a grain of rice. While the company was focused on components, she wanted to help patients more.… […]
• Elkem Silicones opens new medical silicone production facility
  Elkem Silicones announced today that it opened its new specialized facility for producing high-purity medical silicones. York, South Carolina-based Elkem held a grand opening on Sept. 28. Customers and local, state and federal officials attended the event, which featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony, facility tours and a reception. “Elkem’s investment in this highly specialized facility demonstrates… […]
• Three considerations for reshoring your medical device components and assemblies
  Reshoring medical devices — moving production back to the United States — requires strategic and complex navigation. John Banks and Richard Landry, Beacon MedTech Solutions Reshoring is a topic of conversation with almost every biopharma, life sciences and medical company currently outsourcing production of thermoplastic or silicone parts, products and assemblies to overseas molders. Just… […]
• How Medline maintains quality while innovating and growing
  Medline President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs Lara Simmons offers insight into innovation and quality as the company grows. When Lara Simmons joined Medline Industries in 1991, she began by performing packaging validations. At the time, Medline was bringing in $250 million in sales per year, and the company’s quality assurance team had only about… […]
• How this inside-out vascular access system simplifies catheter placement
  Bluegrass Vascular Technologies is making catheter placement procedures for dialysis and chemotherapy easier and safer using inside-out technology, explains CEO and President Gabi Niederauer. Bluegrass Vascular Technologies has figured out a way to make a catheter sheath go inside the body and back out for easy catheter placement in standard access procedures. The San Antonio,… […]
• 6 Steps for Winning at Life Sciences Bid Management
  By Bob Steller, Industry Principal – Life Sciences Discover the secret to success for planning, executing—and winning—profitable bids Did you know that 85% of revenue in the medical technology market comes through bids and tenders? For Life Sciences companies like yours, one key to building and expanding your business is mastering the art and science… […]
• Digital Pump Customization: Unlocking the True Potential of BLDC Motors
  By using advanced electric motors, a variety of motor and pump parameters can be customized to individual customer needs. It is becoming increasingly more valuable to be able to monitor all electronic components on board medical devices. By taking advantage of the full capabilities and digital customization of brushless direct current (BLDC) motor controllers, pumps… […]