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Mid-tier is where it’s at when it comes to emerging markets

McKinsey & Co. industry analyst Nicholas Donoghoe says it’s the mid-tier markets in countries such as China, Brazil, and India that represent the greatest potential for medical device growth. In an...

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Have you hired an MVP yet?

Medtech companies looking to provide employment opportunities to returning veterans can do so through The Medical Technology Veterans Program (MVP), an AdvaMed industry initiative introduced last year....

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Medtech applauds US EU trade negotiations

Last week’s G8 Summit drew support from the global medical technology industry associations – AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Technology Association), COCIR (European Coordination Committee of the...

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Medtech for endangered apes

The world’s population of mountain and Grauer’s gorillas -- both found in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, may be fewer than 3,000 according to some estimates. At nearly 6-ft tall...

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'Smart Diapers' coming soon

Maybe you did, but I didn’t see this one coming. Two New York-based parents developed Smart Diapers. That’s right, wearable medical technology is now available for infants. And why not? We have smart...

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House legislation would make user fees exempt from sequestration

Legilation that would exempt FDA user fees from cuts under sequestration was introduced this week in the House. Medical Design joins AdvaMed in praising Reps. Leonard Lance (R-NJ), Anna Eshoo (D-CA),...

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Should effort to repeal device tax continue?

Since the device tax passed in January, medical device manufacturers have paid $1 billion to the IRS, which causes one to wonder if efforts to repeal the device tax should continue or if the industry...

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Wi-Fi mobility in hospitals

Most client devices that use Wi-Fi in a hospital are computing devices such as computers on wheels, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. With very few exceptions, the applications that run on these...

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Speak your mind to FDA leaders

Perhaps you’ve been surprised by the FDA review process and you have some questions about how it works and what is being done to improve communications between the agency and device makers. Or maybe...

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Knee arthroplasties shown to save $12 billion

As payers continue to focus primarily on the cost of procedures, other societal factors need to come into play. That is, how do outcomes impact the overall economy? If that sounds vague, then by all...

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Neuro symposium to spur collaboration between surgeons and device companies

Kudos to the Congress of Neuorological Surgeons (CNS) for having the vision to organize its first-ever Innovation and Technology Symposium and to Medtronic for playing a key role in its launch. Why is...

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Let's tell them

AdvaMed's Life Changing Innovation (LCI) effort provides opportunities for consumers, medtech employees, and device innovators to come together to form an online community with the purpose of inspiring...

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Tomatoes and medtech

At last month’s AdvaMed 2013 conference in Washington, DC, there was much discussion on the role medtech will play in the value-based healthcare system of the not-so-distant future. Such a system will...

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Device tax repeal still possible, Senator Daschle tells Cleveland Clinic...

Washington came to Cleveland last night in the form of Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD), who told an audience of healthcare executives, investors, and analysts, that while repeal of the medical device tax...

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Watson, knowledge, and wisdom

The knowledge-vs.-wisdom theme came up again. (See the “Tomatoes and Medtech” blog.) This time it arose during a panel session at last week’s Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit. The context was a...

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