General Motors today began mass production of the Ventec Life Systems V+Pro critical care ventilator at the automaker’s Kokomo, Ind. plant. GM and Ventec have a $489.4 million contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to deliver 6,132 ventilators to the Strategic National Stockpile by the end of June, with 30,000 shipped […]
Trump orders GM to make ventilators
After a deal between General Motors and Ventec Life Systems to produce 80,000 ventilators briefly appeared halted, President Trump yesterday ordered GM to proceed under the Defense Production Act. A New York Times report earlier on Friday said the Federal Emergency Management Agency had paused the $1 billion plan, saying it needed time to determine […]
AdvaMed: Invoking Defense Production Act could hinder U.S. medtech imports
Forcing manufacturers to repurpose their production lines to make equipment to fight the coronavirus epidemic might actually hurt the U.S. supply of those items, the head of medtech trade group AdvaMed said today. AdvaMed officials have talked with U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn about medtech […]
Major U.S. manufacturers answering call for ventilator needs
U.S. manufacturers — inside and outside medtech — are offering help amid shortages of ventilators, respirator masks and more needed to combat coronavirus. News broke this week that Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York is reportedly experiencing shortages of masks and other protective equipment, and it is not alone in that regard. Last […]
Medtech startup teams with GM on robotic glove
(Reuters) — Bioservo Technologies, a medical technology startup that makes a light-weight robotic “extra muscle” glove for people with weak grips, is teaming up with carmaker General Motors (NYSE:GM) to design a model for industrial assembly workers. After built-in sensors on 3 fingertips record what the user does, the Swedish startup’s soft textile glove mimics and reinforces the movement […]
Swedish Bioservo Technologies licenses GM-NASA developed RoboGlove, looks to Med uses
Swedish medtech company Bioservo Technologies said today it is licensing robotic glove technology developed through a partnership between General Motors and NASA, looking to a possible developments of soft exoskeleton tech for medical uses. Bioservo will combine tech from its Soft Extra Muscle glove with the force-multiplying tech from the RoboGlove, planning uses for the […]
