Phillips-Medisize said today that it entered into an agreement with an unnamed biotechnology company to manufacture a wearable, electronic-enabled combination product for subcutaneous drug delivery. The hockey puck-sized product is designed as a disposable, single-use combination device that can be worn near the infusion site for two days or adhere to the patient’s body with an […]
7 MD&M East exhibitors you need to know
MD&M East is one of the largest medical device manufacturing events on the East Coast. Its organizer Informa Markets expects more than 8,000 advanced manufacturing professionals at this year’s event – June 11–13 in New York City. A show such as MD&M East allows officials from medtech companies large and small to network with the constellation […]
Phillips-Medisize is offering connected health data services: Here’s how
One of the world’s largest medical device contract manufacturers, Phillips-Medisize is making a business play to provide the technological back end for connected drug delivery devices. Phillips-Medisize used to be all about the housings, assembly and packaging that went into finished drug-delivery devices. Electronics was something that other contract manufacturers did. Within a few years, […]
Phillips-Medisize is expanding in Wisconsin
Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company, has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Hudson, Wis., on the eastern end of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. The 34-acre location at the St. Croix Meadows development will support at least 230,000 square feet of manufacturing space for FDA-regulated medical device products, Phillips-Medisize announced yesterday. After construction is complete […]
Phillips-Medisize launches third-gen Connected Health Platform
Phillips-Medisize said today it completed the roll-out of its third-gen Connected Health Platform, a cloud-based data system for pharmaceutical and drug delivery device developers. The newly launched system includes information sharing and analytics capabilities as well as cybersecurity precautions and streamlined regulatory documentation, the Hudson, Wisc.-based company said. Read the whole story on our sister […]
Phillips-Medisize inks deal to develop connected health platform for drugs
Phillips-Medisize said this week that it teamed up with healthcare software tech company InterSystems to develop a data-sharing and analytics platform designed for connected drug-delivery devices and mobile medical apps. The third-generation of Phillips-Medisize’s connected health platform, combined with InterSystems’ HealthShare platform, will allow pharma companies to connect medication and diagnostic data across their drugs and […]
Amazon-Berkshire-JPM healthcare bet taps Comcast’s Stoddard for COO | Personnel Moves, Sept. 10, 2018
Amazon-Berkshire-JPM healthcare bet taps Comcast’s Stoddard for COO The healthcare joint venture started by Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan tapped former Comcast executive Jack Stoddard to be its COO, reporting to CEO Dr. Atul Gawande. Stoddard was a co-founder of Accolade, a startup backed by the cable giant that helps workers manage their health […]
Phillips-Medisize launches third-gen connected health platform
Phillips-Medisize today launched the third generation of its connected health platform, designed to serve the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The Wisconsin-based company touted that its system was used in the first drug-device product approved by the FDA to track medication adherence. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News.
Phillips-Medisize’s increased business to benefit Molex plant in Arkansas
Phillips-Medisize today announced a doubling of production for an undisclosed fast-growing medical customer with a take-home diagnostic kit for cancer detection – with benefits for the plant that Phillips-Medisize’s parent Molex runs in Little Rock, Ark. Phillips-Medisize, which is based in Hudson, Wis., did not disclose the identity of the customer, which it described as a leader in consumable […]
Dance Biopharm, Phillips-Medisize ink deal for inhaled insulin device
Privately-held biotech Dance Biopharm and Phillips-Medisize have entered into a joint development deal for a connected drug-delivery device for inhaled insulin. The agreement gives Phillips-Medisize, which already designs and manufactures devices for Dance, the development work for future enhancements of Dance’s devices, as well as commercial manufacturing of the inhaled insulin delivery device when it gets to the market. […]
Why the medtech contract manufacturing M&A trend isn’t slowing down
Consolidation is increasingly shaping the medical device industry, but what about players on the other side of the fence? Medtech contract manufacturing partners to OEMs are seeing their own abundance of M&A as larger players look to expand their influence and keep up with increasing demand. Over the past four years, the medical device industry […]
