Compliance concerns may be driven largely by the desire to say out of the regulatory spotlight, but it’s also a business strategy, a panel of experts told an audience during this week’s MassDevice.com Big 100 West event in Orange County, Calif.
MassDevice Big 100 Regional Roundtable
Big 100 West: Engineering, naivety and the birth of Second Sight’s ‘bionic eye’
Restoring sight to the blind: A conversation with Second Sight’s Robert Greenberg
Second Sight Medical’s Argus II "bionic eye" is likely the most talked-about medical device of 2013.
The retinal prosthesis, approved by the FDA last summer, isn’t slated to hit the market until 2014, but the buzz around the device is already at a fever pitch.
MassDevice.com +7 | The top 7 med-tech stories for the week of July 9, 2012
Say hello to MassDevice +7, a bite-sized view of the top seven med-tech stories of the week. This latest feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our seven biggest and most influential stories from the week’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry.
If you read nothing else this weekend, make sure you’re still in the know with MassDevice +7.
Photo gallery: MassDevice.com’s Big 100 Roundtable East
MassDevice held its 2nd annual Big 100 Roundtable East event in Waltham, Mass., July 10. A group of nearly 250 med-tech executives and stakeholders gathered for an evening of networking, insight into medical device marketing and intimate interviews with Michael Mahoney (incoming CEO of Boston Scientific), Abiomed CEO Michael Minogue and GI Dynamics CEO Stuart Randle.
Med-Tech CEOs turn passion into mission with boot camp for vets
BSX’s incoming CEO Mahoney on leaving J&J: “The opportunity was too good to pass up”
Incoming Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) CEO Mike Mahoney is nothing if not optimistic about his upcoming tenure at the helm of the med-tech giant.
The Med-Tech Mid-Summer Classic: MassDevice Big 100 Roundtable East
MassDevice.com is proud to announce an exceptional lineup of medical device leaders for the MassDevice Big 100 Regional Roundtable East on July 10, 2012, in Waltham, Mass.
The Big 100 Roundtable is a conversation among leaders – an unforgettable exchange of insight, ideas and contacts with the most prominent pioneers in our field.
Nominate your boss for the CEO Class of 2012: Who are the med-tech industry’s most innovative CEOs?
Three questions for Edwards Lifesciences CEO Michael Mussallem
If the good people of Orange County felt a gale force wind a few weeks back, it may have been a sigh of relief coming from the Irvine, Calif. headquarters of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (NYSE:EW) after the FDA finally gave a much-anticipated green light to the company’s Sapien transcatheter aortic valve.
Edwards had been hanging fire since July, when an FDA advisory panel recommended that the federal watchdog agency approve the device.
Three questions for Masimo CEO Joe Kiani
Joe Kiani is part of a pretty exclusive club. The founder, CEO and chairman of Masimo Corp. (NDSQ:MASI) built the company up from a start in his garage to a publicly traded company with more than 2,000 employees.