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, […]
Smith+Nephew sees new way into the OR
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 […]
DTW Podcast: Can Fractyl Labs and Cala Health go where only drugs have gone before?
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 […]
The top 5 MassDevice stories of the week — August 21, 2020
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 […]
This telemedicine system could get medtech sales reps back to ORs
Daniel Hawkins’ surprise isn’t a matter of what, but when. The successful medtech executive and former Shockwave Medical CEO fully expected medical device makers would see Avail Medsystem’s telemedicine system as a more efficient way for sales reps to sit in on surgeries. By Hawkins’ projections, Avail’s system would eliminate much of the time sales […]
