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• How to design home healthcare devices that people will use
  Meeting consumer demands for home healthcare technology requires a keen knowledge of user behavior. Here are four ways companies are approaching the market. by Scott Thielman, Product Creation Studio The global smart home healthcare market is exploding as more medical devices are designed for use wherever the patient is, including at home. A report by Research… […]
• Axonics Modulation touts results of sacral neuromodulation study
  Axonics Modulation Technologies (NSDQ:AXNX) announced positive top-line results from a pivotal study of its novel implantable sacral neuromodulation (SNM) devices for the treatment of urinary and bowel dysfunction. The clinical study demonstrated that patients implanted with the Axonics r-SNM system experienced clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvements in urinary urgency incontinence (UUI) symptoms and quality of… […]
• Okay Industries appoints new marketing manager
  Okay Industries (New Britain, Conn.) announced that it has appointed Angela Dillon as its new marketing manager. As marketing manager, Dillon willed strategic initiative that will promote the Okay brand, support business development and manage both internal and external communications for talent recruitment and retention. “I am excited to announce this new role for Angela,”… […]
• SIG Medical wins FDA clearance for rib fracture device
  SIG Medical (Hershey, Penn.) has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its enhanced AdvantageRib System, the K183317. The system is the third rib fracture system from SIG Medical that has received 510(k) clearance recently and is being commercialized. The most recent 510(k) includes new implants that treat patients, as well as the entire spectrum of bone… […]
• Starr Surgical signs strategic cooperation agreement with Smile Eyes
  Starr Surgical (Monrovia, Calif.) recently announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Smile Eyes group in Germany and Austria. The Smile Eyes group is an alliance of more than 80 eye experts in 13 vision correction eye centers in Germany and Austria. Through the agreement, EVO Visian ICL lenses will be… […]
• Phillips-Medisize is offering connected health data services: Here’s how
  One of the world’s largest medical device contract manufacturers, Phillips-Medisize is making a business play to provide the technological back end for connected drug delivery devices. Phillips-Medisize used to be all about the housings, assembly and packaging that went into finished drug-delivery devices. Electronics was something that other contract manufacturers did. Within a few years,… […]
• Summit Medical expands manufacturing facility
  Summit Medical recently announced that it has expanded its St. Paul, Minn. manufacturing facility with an additional 15,000 sq. ft. The addition opened on Feb. 11. The expansion will become a secondary facility for the company’s headquarters that is located less than a mile away. It will also serve as a master distribution center. “The… […]
• AdvaMed president & CEO Scott Whitaker to participate in keynote interview at DeviceTalks Boston 2019
  WTWH Media and MassDevice.com announced today that Scott Whitaker, president and CEO of AdvaMed, will be a featured keynote speaker at DeviceTalks Boston 2019. DeviceTalks Boston, which takes place on June 5-6, 2019 at the Seaport World Trade Center, brings together engineering, product development and commercialization professionals to share the challenges and best practices of getting medical devices… […]
• Apollo Endosurgery touts results of stomach-stapling study
    Apollo Endosurgery (NSDQ:APEN) has reported key data from 1,000 patients who underwent endoscopic gastroplasty using the company’s OverStitch device. Published in the journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the data include a mean total weight loss of 14.8%±8.5% at 18 months. Three months following surgery, the impact on obesity-related comorbidities included the complete remission of: 13 of 17 cases… […]
• Royal Philips introduces new C-arm imaging tech
  Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG) said it has launched a new mobile C-arm imaging platform, Zenition. Mobile C-arms are X-ray systems that are brought into the operating room (OR) to provide live image guidance during a wide range of surgeries including orthopedic, trauma and vascular procedures. The Zenition mobile C-arm platform brings together innovations in image capture, image… […]
• When human factor specialists become the patient
  By Allison Strochlic, Emergo Group I just had a baby – my second daughter. This means that, like over 98% of my fellow American moms-to-be, I checked into a local hospital to have nurses and doctors oversee what I hoped would be the smooth delivery of my baby. This entitled me to the firsthand experience… […]