Technology
Short Film Showcases Beatless Artificial Heart Technology
Feb 03, 2012
Image from the Texas Heart Institute Last year, heart surgeon Billy Cohn, MD explained in a ABC News video that ventricular assist devices “work...
Accuracy Apples and Accuracy Peaches—What Does that Vendor Quote Really Mean?
Jan 26, 2012
Image courtesy of Flickr user ultramega. It’s a noisy world, and that is one of many reasons why in leak testing and other non...
The Quantified Self, Big Data, and Medicine
Jan 24, 2012
VentureBeat recently ran a piece hailing the Quantified Self as one of the big trends of 2012. Based on self tracking, the Quantified Self movement...
Daniel Kraft, MD on the Future of Medicine at TEDMED
Jan 17, 2012
Medicine today is “very much siloed,” observes Daniel Kraft, MD in a TEDMED presentation. Typically, a hospital has separate departments for...
This Week in Devices: An Interview with Medtronic's CEO
Jan 16, 2012
Among stories in this edition of "This Week in Devices," Massdevice interviews Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak and Scanadu views for the $10-million X...
Survey: Majority of Biomedical Companies Cutting R&D Projects
Jan 11, 2012
On January 10, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the California Healthcare Institute, and BayBio released preliminary findings of its California Biomedical Industry 2012...
The Medtech Leader Perspective on Globalization at OneMedPlace Conference
Jan 11, 2012
The OneMedPlace finance conference in San Francisco featured a panel discussion titled "AdvaMed 2012 CEO’s Unplugged: Global Outlook on Medical...
10 Steps to Better Reprocessing, Plus 7 Goals to Keep in Mind
Jan 10, 2012
A new report published by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) urges healthcare facilities to take action on improving the...
For Medtech Firms, Things to Keep in Mind when Doing Business in China
Jan 09, 2012
It is well understood that China is a country marked by dramatic change. One of the observations shared at the China Forum at OneMedPlace today in San...
To Tinker or Invent?
Jan 08, 2012
Inspired by the content of a Malcom Gladwell talk, I wrote a post titled "It Can Be Better to Tinker than Invent" a couple of months ago. The truth...