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Medtech 100 roundup: Stocks dip slightly after strong start to month

May 18, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Medtech stocks ticked down over the course of last week as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to bear economic ramifications. MassDevice’s MedTech 100 Index — which includes stocks of the world’s largest medical device companies — sat at 82.4 points at the end of last week (May 15). That total represents a -1.9% decline from the 83.98-point […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Dental, Featured, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Respiratory, Surgical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: 3m, Alcon, conformis, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dow Jones, Electromed, MedTech, MedTech 100 Index, S&P, smiledirectclub, Titan Medical Inc., TransEnterix

The grim stories behind seven of medtech’s worst failures

April 19, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

Medical devices save or restore thousands of patient lives every year, but the dark side to medtech innovation is increasingly drawing attention. For all the good the industry does, it’s worth remembering that the costs can be high – even fatal – when medical device companies don’t get things right. The examples range from women […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Clinical Trials, Diagnostics, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Implants, Metal-on-Metal, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Bayer, birth control, duodenoscope, Essure, MedTech, Medtronic, metal-on-metal hips, pacemakers, Theranos

Is this the way to improve organ transportation?

April 1, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

Organ transplants are performed annually to remove diseased organs and replace them with healthy ones to extend the lifespan of patients. Potential transplant recipients are placed on a waiting list by a doctor who has determined that a transplant is the best course of action. Once a donor organ is available, the organ transportation system […]

Filed Under: Research & Development, Transplants Tagged With: MedTech, paragonixtechnologies, Women in Medtech

Medtech outsourcer innovations you need to know

February 22, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

The medical device industry is seeing all kinds of innovations, but people often overlook the myriad medtech outsourcer technologies making innovation possible. From tiny sensors, magnets and cameras to materials and adhesives that get the job done, contract manufacturers and other suppliers are supporting the medical device industry in myriad ways. They’re enabling everything from […]

Filed Under: Contract Manufacturing Tagged With: eastman, MedTech, OmniVision, teconnectivity, ttelectronics

11 innovative medical devices you need to know from 2018

January 18, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

Call it digital health or mHealth or simply what it is — innovation. Last year we saw a lot of innovative wireless devices for diagnostics and treatment as research and development flourished. Many researchers have taken up the challenge of developing devices that are portable, small and convenient with ease-of-use that could revolutionize point-of-care diagnostics […]

Filed Under: Digital Health, Featured, Imaging, Implants, Research & Development Tagged With: bacteria-on-a-chip, Cerebrotech, diabetes, electroCore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MedTech, neurodegenerative diseases, plug-and-play, University of California at San Diego, University of California Berekley, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Cambridge

Owens & Minor inks distribution deal with Scripps Health

January 11, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

Owens & Minor (Mechanicsville, Va.) has signed a five-year medical and surgical supply distribution agreement with Scripps Health. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Scripps Health is a California-based healthcare system that treats more than 750,000 patients annually. Under the agreement, Owens & Minor will serve Scripps Health’s five acute-care hospital campuses and […]

Filed Under: Distribution Tagged With: MedTech, Owens and Minor, Scripps Health

10 MD&M West exhibitors you need to know

January 3, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

More than 20,000 engineers and executives are expected to gather and network for the annual MD&M West – one of the largest annual medical device manufacturing events. MD&M West takes place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif., Feb. 5–7, and houses an array of industry suppliers showcasing their latest technologies and manufacturing advancements. Think medical device packaging, […]

Filed Under: Outsourcing Tagged With: Accumold, donatelle, emerson, Freudenberg Medical, GW Plastics, IRP Medical, Maxon Precision Motors, MD&M West, MedTech, New England Wire Technologies, Raumedic, Zeus

6 exhibitors at DeviceTalks West you should know

November 27, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

DeviceTalks West is an annual event that allows some of the best minds in medtech to exchange ideas, insights and technologies. Medical Design & Outsourcing’s parent company WTWH Media holds DeviceTalks annually in Boston, Orange County, Calif., and the Twin Cities in Minnesota. It is hosted by MassDevice and attendees can plan to enjoy networking with people in […]

Filed Under: Diagnostics, Patient Monitoring, Software / IT Tagged With: DeviceTalks, DeviceTalks West, MedTech, Metidata, Promenade Software, R&Q, Sunrise Labs, Toxikon, Valtronic

NIH invests over $220M in BRAIN initiative

November 2, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

The National Institutes of Health announced today that it is funding more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million in investments, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Some of the new awards include the creation of a wireless optical tomography cap for scanning human brain activity; a noninvasive brain-computer interface […]

Filed Under: Neurological, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Research & Development Tagged With: BRAIN initiative, MedTech, National Institutes of Health, NIH

The top 10 medical disruptors of 2019

October 26, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

The Cleveland Clinic for the past 16 years has predicted what the top 10 medical disruptors will be for the following year. The health provider seeks input from 150 to 200 of its physicians, hailing from each of its institutes. The result is 300 to 400 suggestions, which the clinic then narrows down to 150. […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Featured, Hospital Care, Imaging, Implants, Neurological, Pharmaceutical, Structural Heart, Surgical Tagged With: AI, artificial intelligence, Cancer, Cleveland Clinic, MedTech, opioid crisis, RNA, Robotic Surgery, Stroke, TMVR, Virtual Reality

The 10 largest medtech employers of 2018 – and what their employees really think

September 14, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

Among the 10 largest medtech employers, workers feel pride in working on life-saving products – but there’s also frustration with big corporate bureaucracy. That was the major takeaway as Medical Design & Outsourcing compiled some of the most insightful current and former employee reviews posted on Glassdoor. The 10 companies we’re counting down were the largest […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured Tagged With: Baxter, BD, Big 100, Boston Scientific, Essilor, GE Healthcare, Johnson and Johnson, MedTech, Medtronic, Philips, Stryker, Terumo

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