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Ultrasonically welded flow sensor critical to success of Hamilton Medical ventilator design

April 1, 2022 By MassDevice

The disposable sensor monitors ventilation of critically ill patients with high precision. Didier Perret, Emerson Hamilton Medical (Bonaduz, Switzerland) produces intelligent ventilation solutions for intensive-care units and critical-care transports. To meet the exploding demand for ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hamilton Medical established a new ventilator production site in Reno, Nevada, with the support of a […]

Filed Under: Blog, News Well, Respiratory Tagged With: Branson, emerson, General Motors, Hamilton Medical

MedTech 100 roundup: Stocks top pre-pandemic high

September 8, 2020 By Sean Whooley

After weeks of flirting with the heights hit before COVID-19 ravaged the markets, medtech stocks finally topped the pre-pandemic high last week. MassDevice’s MedTech 100 Index — which includes stocks of the world’s largest medical device companies — spiked up to 93.11 points on Sep. 2, nearly a full point ahead of the pre-pandemic high of […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Featured, Funding Roundup, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Research & Development, Respiratory, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott, Brexit, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), General Motors, Joe Biden, MedTech 100 Index, Medtronic, Stryker, Ventec Life Systems, Wright Medical

Ventec, GM complete HHS ventilator contract

September 1, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Ventec Life Systems and General Motors announced today that they completed their government contract to produce 30,000 ventilators. The two companies kicked off mass production of Ventec’s V+Pro critical care ventilator at GM’s Kokomo, Ind., plant in April, having received a $489.4 million contract from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services to deliver […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Featured, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), General Motors, GM, HHS, Ventec Life Systems

Report: Ventilators are piling up in government stockpiles

August 18, 2020 By Sean Whooley

As the COVID-19 pandemic roars on, the government stockpile of once-in-demand ventilators has reportedly turned into a collection of unused devices. The Washington Post reports that, following the panic caused by an anticipated ventilator shortage and subsequent rush to add to the stockpile after President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, the approach to treating COVID-19 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Featured, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Defense Production Act, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), Ford, GE Healthcare, General Motors, Philips, Ventec Life Systems

Ventec to take over ventilator production at GM plant

August 13, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Ventec Life Systems and General Motors have delivered more than 20,000 ventilators they built together at a GM plant, and GM plans to turn over production to the medtech company once their federal contract is completed, Ventec announced this week. Production of Ventec’s V+Pro critical care ventilators at the Kokomo, Ind., GM plant began in […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Distribution, Featured, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, General Motors, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Ventec Life Systems

GM receives N95 certification for Michigan-made respirators

July 14, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

General Motors (NYSE:GM) announced today that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has provided an N95-level certification for the respirators the automaker is churning out of its Warren, Mich. plant. NIOSH, which is part of the CDC, created the new certification process in order to increase the supply of filtering facepiece respirators needed […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Regulatory/Compliance, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, General Motors, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

General Motors kicks off mass production of ventilators

April 14, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, News Well, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, General Motors, Ventec Life Systems

Trump orders GM to make ventilators

March 27, 2020 By Danielle Kirsh

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Hospital Care, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, General Motors, Ventec Life Systems

AdvaMed: Invoking Defense Production Act could hinder U.S. medtech imports

March 27, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Diagnostics, Distribution, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Hospital Care, Regulatory/Compliance, Respiratory Tagged With: 3m, AdvaMed, coronavirus, FDA, GE Healthcare, General Motors, Global Medical Technology Alliance, Medtronic, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Ventec Life Systems, Zoll Medical

Major U.S. manufacturers answering call for ventilator needs

March 19, 2020 By Sean Whooley

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Hospital Care, Legal News, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, General Motors, Medtronic, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Medtech startup teams with GM on robotic glove

October 11, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

(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 […]

Filed Under: Research & Development, Robotics Tagged With: Bioservo Technologies, General Motors

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