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Taking the fight to COVID-19 – BD, DHL, Novant on delivering, shipping and administering the vaccine

December 18, 2020 By Tom Salemi

This week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast shares the stories of the professionals who are working to get the new COVID-19 vaccines into the hands – and arms – of the front-line fighters and people at greatest risk. Leading off, Elizabeth Woody, SVP of public affairs at BD, explains how the company is preparing for the increasing […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Health Technology, Robotics Tagged With: Abbott Laboratories, Avail Medsystems, BD, Boston Scientific, DHL Supply Chain, Explorer Surgical, Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, Novant Health, Pfizer, Stryker, Tandem Diabetes Care

Stryker ortho head Stiles says reps needed in OR now more than ever

November 23, 2020 By Tom Salemi

While many medical device companies are seeing operating room doors shut in the face of their sales reps as hospitals strive to minimize contact during the pandemic, in this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, Spencer Stiles, group president of Stryker’s orthopaedic and spine groups, said surgeons are telling the ortho giant quite the opposite — that […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Orthopedics, Robotics, Spine Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, DeviceTalks Weekly, Explorer Surgical, Stryker, Wright Medical

Explorer says AR, AI will improve surgeon-sales rep connections

November 18, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Explorer Surgical, one of several companies working to established remote connections between surgeons and advisors located outside the operating room, introduced a suite of audio/video functionality that it says will established “unprecedented” levels of communications. The Chicago-based startup says its platform will include augmented reality. According to a release, the HIPAA-compliant system will allow proxies, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Technology, Surgical Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Explorer Surgical, Proximie

Tech bridges gap between sales reps and surgeons

November 10, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Medtech sales reps often are an essential presence during surgeries. But worries about the spread of the coronavirus and the availability of personal protective equipment have pushed most reps out of the operating rooms, leaving surgeons without a resource to which they’ve grown accustomed. Technology startups are stepping forward to reunite surgeons and sales reps […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Surgical Tagged With: Abbott, Avail Medsystems, DeviceTalks, Explorer Surgical, Philips, Reacts, Smith+Nephew

DTW Podcast: Smith+Nephew’s Ortho president, Rhaeos’ big win and Medtronic’s legacy

October 9, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, our opening and closing keynote interviews focus on executives from companies at very different stages. Manufacturing and sourcing Skip Kiil took the helm of Smith+Nephew’s (NYSE:SNN) global orthopedics business to transform it. The company’s recent acquisition of Integra LifeSciences’ (NSDQ:IART) extremities business will further that mission. In our closing keynote conversation, […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Health Information Technology, Orthopedics, Robotics Tagged With: AdvaMed, Avail Medsystems, Medtronic, Rhaeos, Smith+Nephew

Avail grabs $100M to build OR telemed network

October 7, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Avail Medsystems closed on $100 million for a Series B round to fund the company’s plan to provide free telemedicine equipment that can connect surgeons, interventional specialists and medical device sales reps. In an announcement issued this morning, Avail said the round was led by D1 Capital Partners, with participation from 8VC and existing investors. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Technology, Orthopedics, Surgical Tagged With: AdvaMed, Avail Medsystems, Medtronic, Smith+Nephew

DTW Podcast: New tools helping medtechs overcome COVID19 challenges

October 5, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, senior executives from Avail Medsystems and AliveCor detail how their tools are helping medtechs remain in contact with both physicians and patients. In the keynote interview with Daniel Hawkins, CEO of Avail Medsystems, says the company’s Procedural Telemedicine system will allow medical device sales representatives to observe more procedures […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Digital Health, Featured, Health Technology, Special Content Tagged With: AliveCor, Avail Medsystems, BD, becton dickinson, Boston Scientific, Coloplast, DeviceTalks Weekly, Medtronic, Smith & Nephew

DTW Podcast: 3 lessons learned from Leslie Trigg, CEO of Outset Medical

September 19, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Outset Medical (NSDQ:OM) CEO Leslie Trigg took the helm at the dialysis start-up in 2013, moving from an executive-in-residence post at private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Before that she held senior positions at Lutonix, AccessClosure and FoxHollow, helping to position those companies to be acquired by CR Bard, Cardinal Health, and ev3/Covidien, respectively. This week, […]

Filed Under: Dialysis, Digital Health, Featured, Health Technology, Hospital Care, Imaging, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Robotics, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Corindus Vascular Robotics, Hologic, Outset Medical, Smith & Nephew, Varian Medical Systems

Smith+Nephew sees new way into the OR

September 15, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Smith+Nephew (NYSE:SNN) sales representatives and consulting surgeons will have a direct new, albeit electronic path, into operating rooms. The London-based medical device maker signed a deal with Avail Medsystems, a startup that’s bringing a high-level telecommunication system to operating rooms and surgery centers. The Avail system includes a self-standing unit equipped with a camera and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Technology, Orthopedics Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, DeviceTalks, Smith & Nephew

DTW Podcast: Can Fractyl Labs and Cala Health go where only drugs have gone before?

August 21, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, co-costs Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker walk through this week’s “Newmarker’s Newsmakers,” the Top Five #medtech stories of the week with news coming from CureVac, Avail Medsystems, ClearMask, Thermo Fisher and Bayer. We also hear from CEO Harith Rajagopalan, MD and CFO Lisa Davidson of Fractyl Laboratories, which is […]

Filed Under: Bioelectronic Medicine, Biotech, Device Talks Podcasts, Diabetes, Featured, Initial Public Offering (IPO) Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Bayer, Cala Health, ClearMask, CureVac, Fractyl Laboratories, Thermo Fisher Scientific

The top 5 MassDevice stories of the week — August 21, 2020

August 21, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

COVID-19 continues to dominate medical device industry news on MassDevice. The pandemic is causing more major lawsuit settling — as well as efforts to offer more medtech to enable better management of the coronavirus. Want to hear more about the week’s top news? Executive editor Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi will discuss during our DeviceTalks Weekly […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Bayer, ClearMask, CureVac, Essure, Thermo Fisher Scientific

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