Siemens officials question whether they should keep the company’s majority stake in its former medtech division, Siemens Healthineers (XETRA: SHL.DE). The plan is to evaluate the economic opportunities for Siemens in the healthcare space and then determine how instrumental it is to have Healthineers as an investment, Siemens CFO Ralf Thomas told the Handelsblatt newspaper in […]
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How Stryker is using 3D printing to advance orthopedics
Orthopedic device giant Stryker uses additive manufacturing to make porous geometries that wouldn’t otherwise be possible DeviceTalks 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, provides the ability to create new products and designs that are incredibly complex and hard to machine. For 20 years, Stryker has been on a journey to use additive manufacturing specifically to […]
How 5G could affect medtech
The latest standard of broadband technology continues to make waves in 2021. But what about medtech? Cellphone using 5G (Imagy by Frederik Lipfert on Unsplash) Wireless tech companies such as Qualcomm are predicting download speeds as high as 10 gigabits per second as next-generation 5G cellular networks roll out worldwide. The open question in medtech is […]
These 5 medtech companies made it into the top 200 of Forbes’ best places to work list
Johnson & Johnson, Steris, Philips, Fujifilm Holdings and Boston Scientific were recently named among Forbes’ best large employers in America, based on feedback from their employees. Forbes partnered with a market research firm to survey 50,000 Americans working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. Survey participants were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their employer […]
Former Corindus CEO Toland joins robotic `micro’ surgical startup
Mark Toland, the former CEO of Corindus Vascular Robotics, believes the next big opportunity for surgical robotics is actually very small. Toland, who sold the telesurgery robotics company to Siemens in 2019 for $1.1 billion, is now the CEO of Medical Microinstruments S.p.A. (MMI), an Italian company that has developed a surgical robotic system capable […]
What are the most effective COVID-19 antibody tests?
The FDA released a list of emergency use authorized COVID-19 antibodies to offer comparisons over the sensitivity of the diagnostics. Among the larger companies on the list with larger sample sizes, antibody tests made by Roche and Siemens were some of the highest-ranking diagnostics, according to the FDA comparison. Tests are in part described by […]
DTW Podcast: Hear the future of AI, 3D, and Dx from Edwards, Stryker, Evercore, Checkable
In this week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly we review the Medical Design & Outsourcing’s Women in Medtech issue — bringing you insights through interviews with Katie Syzman, corporate VP and the GM of critical care at Edwards Lifesciences, Naomi Murray, Stryker’s director of advanced operations, and Patty Post, CEO of Startup Checkable Medical. Szyman […]
Siemens Healthineers secures EUA for its COVID-19 antibody test
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) announced today that it has secured an FDA emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 antibody test. The news comes nearly a week after the German medtech giant said it had started worldwide shipments of the test — a laboratory-based total antibody test that can detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies including IgM and IgG in blood. […]
Siemens Healthineers to produce 50m antibody tests per month against COVID-19
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) said today that it has started worldwide shipments of its COVID-19 antibody test, with a goal of producing 50 million tests per month as the pandemic evolves. The German medtech giant also announced that FDA has granted an emergency use authorization for its PCR Fast Track Diagnostics (FTD) SARS-CoV-2 Assay6 test kit. Both […]
Siemens Healthineers seeking EUA for its coronavirus test kit
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) announced today that it is making its Fast Track Diagnostics (FTD) test kit for COVID-19 available as it seeks FDA emergency use authorization (EUA) and other forms of regulatory approval. The FTD SARS-CoV-2 assay kit is designed to diagnose infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes coronavirus. Siemens Healthineers is already shipping test […]
FDA clears Siemens Healthineers blood analyzer
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) announced today that it won FDA clearance for its RapidPoint 500e blood gas analyzer for diagnosing and monitoring people in the intensive care unit, operating room or emergency room. RapidPoint 500e is designed to generate blood gas, electrolyte, metabolite, CO-oximetry and neonatal bilirubin results that are then used to diagnose and […]
