MD&M East Supplier Focus: Proven Process

Proven Process (Booth #2048) is displaying its catheter insertion robot and pneumatic driver for a totally implantable heart at MD&M East.

"The best thing about these devices is that they are designed to make it to market because they improve patient outcomes," says sales engineer Michael Kanis. "Products can't make it to market in today's business environment without demonstrating greater effectiveness. These devices enable life-preserving, life-saving technologies. So with any technological endeavor, the designs are steppingstones to next-generation devices that will perform better and more affordably."

In the following Q&A, Kanis shares his thoughts on how the demands of medtech makers are changing and what he is most excited about technologically.

Qmed: How do you see the demands of medical device manufacturers changing in 2015?

Kanis: Demands are evolving. Speed is the demand and that will only accelerate as the rapid prototyping tools and services improve.
 

Qmed: What are the major challenges you're seeing in the broader healthcare or manufacturing ecosystem?

Kanis: A major challenge is that the system is demanding more connectivity for the products and a demonstrated payback. And ideally, these connectivity functions would be designed into a product from inception.
 

Qmed: What are you most excited about technologically?

Kanis: The connectivity of diagnosis and therapies will speed recovery and give us data to analyze so that new product ideas will have a laser-focused feature list based on this new data we are collecting.