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Former Johnson & Johnson MedTech CIO joins Microsoft

June 3, 2025 By Chris Newmarker

Larry Jones, the former CIO of Johnson & Johnson MedTech , has joined Microsoft as its global Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) industry leader.  Jones will report to Shelley Bransten, Microsoft’s corporate VP of Global Industry Solutions, who made the announcement on LinkedIn today. “Larry is an accomplished leader with a 35-year career marked by […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Health Technology, Software / IT Tagged With: Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Microsoft, Personnel Moves

iCad, Microsoft collab on mammography access

April 29, 2025 By Sean Whooley

iCad (Nasdaq:ICAD) announced today that it entered into a collaboration with Microsoft to advance AI-powered mammography solutions. Nashua, New Hampshire-based iCad — set to be acquired by RadNet — says the collaboration includes a set of AI-powered mammography solutions in its ProFound Breast Health Suite. These will go on Microsoft’s Precision Imaging Network. The deal […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Health Technology, Imaging, Machine Learning (ML), Mammography, Software / IT, Women's Health Tagged With: iCad, Microsoft

The cloud is transforming medtech: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, J&J, Philips and GE Healthcare leaders explain

May 6, 2022 By Jim Hammerand

Leaders in medtech and cloud computing discuss payoffs and potential in device connectivity, product development and cross-industry partnerships. If knowledge is power, that power comes from a steady stream of information, and we know there’s no shortage of that in healthcare. The challenge has long been how to capture that information, store it, analyze it […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Blog, Digital Health, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Featured, Health Information Technology, Health Technology, Imaging, Implants, News Well, Outsourcing, Patient Monitoring, Software / IT Tagged With: Amazon, GE Healthcare, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Philips

Microsoft CMO: Using the cloud to improve medtech design, manufacturing and care

February 17, 2022 By Jim Hammerand

Dr. David Rhew, Microsoft’s global chief medical officer and VP of healthcare, has been studying how technology can improve health outcomes for nearly three decades. His focus has long been on access to care, quality of care, patient safety, improving experiences for patients and providers, and finding ways to improve the overall efficiency of care. […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Blog, Contract Manufacturing, Diabetes, Digital Health, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Featured, Health Technology, Hospital Care, Imaging, Implants, News Well, Outsourcing, Research & Development, Software / IT, Surgical Tagged With: Microsoft, samsung, Zynx Health

Imagining the future of cloud-connected medical devices with Johnson & Johnson leaders

February 7, 2022 By Jim Hammerand

Cloud-connected medical devices already collect and analyze data, talk to each other and use artificial intelligence to improve patient care, but how much more might be possible in the not-so-distant future? Surgery simulations? Smart ambulances? Full-body scanners? One-click healthcare? I’ve been exploring that question for an upcoming edition of Medical Design & Outsourcing magazine — and asked […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Blog, Diagnostics, Digital Health, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health Technology, News Well, Regulatory/Compliance, Research & Development Tagged With: Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft

What Johnson & Johnson could get out of Microsoft

February 4, 2022 By Jim Hammerand

Johnson & Johnson leaders believe big benefits from medical device connectivity are possible through their cloud partnership with Microsoft. Two leaders in the company’s medical device business recently spoke with Medical Design & Outsourcing about how the cloud can enable innovation in medtech. They offered valuable advice for medtech engineers designing for connectivity. In January, New […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Featured, Health Technology, News Well, Orthopedics, Software / IT, Surgical Tagged With: Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft

Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft partner up on digital surgery

January 10, 2022 By Jim Hammerand

Johnson & Johnson said today it will use Microsoft’s cloud computing services to better connect surgeons and patients in a digital surgery ecosystem. New Brunswick, New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) selected Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) as the preferred cloud provider for JNJ’s digital surgery solutions and to build out its digital surgery […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Featured, Health Technology, News Well, Surgical, Surgical Robotics Tagged With: Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft

MedTech 100 roundup: Industry skies to all-time high

April 19, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The medtech industry hit a slight lull in the early stages of 2021 and, after signs of a rebound, it has soared beyond levels ever before seen. MassDevice‘s MedTech 100 Index had been building up steam in the month of April, rising from 102.16 points at the beginning of March all the way to 109.39 to […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, Initial Public Offering (IPO), MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Align Technology, Amgen, DiaSorin, Five Prime Therapeutics, Luminex, Medline Industries Inc., MedTech 100 Index, Microsoft, Nuance Communications Inc., Siemens Healthineers, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Varian Medical Systems, Vicarious Surgical

Microsoft spending $19.7B on Nuance and its AI for healthcare providers

April 12, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Microsoft announced today that it will acquire Nuance Communications and its AI-based software used by healthcare providers. Under the agreement, Microsoft will buy Nuance at $56 per share, representing a 23% premium to Nuance’s closing price on Friday, April 9, 2021. The all-cash transaction is valued at $19.7 billion, inclusive of Nuance’s debt, according to […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Featured, Health Information Technology, Health Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Software / IT Tagged With: Microsoft, Nuance Communications Inc.

Some SpaceLabs devices vulnerable to serious cyberattack

February 19, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Certain SpaceLabs Healthcare telemetry receivers are at risk of cyberattack by a program as virulent as the WannaCry malware attacks of 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The SpaceLabs Xhibit telemetry receiver model number 96280, v1.0.2 and all versions of a former SpaceLabs product, Arkon, may be affected by the BlueKeep virus, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Health Technology Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Microsoft, Spacelabs Healthcare, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

URGENT/11 cybersecurity vulnerabilities could affect medtech

October 1, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

This article has been updated with information from BD. Cybersecurity researchers have identified 11 vulnerabilities that could allow anyone to remotely take control of an imaging system, an infusion pump or an anesthesia machine, according to the FDA. More types of devices may be affected as well. The vulnerabilities, called URGENT/11, allow attacks to occur […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Regulatory/Compliance, Software / IT Tagged With: ENEA, FDA, Green Hills Software, IP Infusion, Microsoft, Tron Forum, Wind River

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