Arundhati Parmar

Arundhati Parmar is the Medical Devices Reporter at MedCity News. She has covered medical technology since 2008 and specialized in business journalism since 2001. Parmar has three degrees from three continents - a Bachelor of Arts in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India; a Masters in English Literature from the University of Sydney, Australia and a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has sworn never to enter a classroom again.

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U.S. telehealth patient population to grow to 1.3 million by 2017 from 227,400

February 8, 2013 11:23 am by Arundhati Parmar | 1 Comments

A desire to curtail costs is fueling a growth in U.S. telehealth patient population as a new report projects that the number is set to rise to 1.3 million by ... Read more

California start-up developing device to make office hysteroscopy a breeze seeks $2.5 million

February 8, 2013 10:44 am by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

EndoSee Corp., a Los Altos, California company, is seeking to raise $2.5 million to commercialize an investigational device that makes office hysteroscopy possible.The company has already raised $1.6 million.Hysteroscopy involves ... Read more

Here’s take 2 of legislative effort to repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax

February 7, 2013 1:03 pm by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.That seems to be the mantra of Minnesota’s congressional delegation as it relates to the highly unpopular 2.3 percent medical device tax ... Read more

You just got laid off from Boston Scientific, or wherever. Be smart and build a social resume

February 7, 2013 12:00 pm by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

Boston Scientific recently announced that it will be laying of 900 to 1,000 employeesglobally.Here’s what every laid off employee should do — build a social resume. And here’s why:A whopping ... Read more

No. of life science start-ups receiving VC money for first time in 2012 was lowest since 1995

February 7, 2013 10:52 am by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

Life science venture capital activity may have picked up in the last quarter of 2012, but it still wasn’t enough to overwhelm the dismal showing in the first half of ... Read more

If nonadherence is a “health condition”, use big data as preventive screening tool

February 6, 2013 6:13 pm by Arundhati Parmar | 1 Comments

Many companies are taking a crack at the intractable and expensive problem of medication nonadherence. The question is how to get people to take their prescription medications regularly so there ... Read more

Two reasons to make patient engagement a priority: better clinical outcomes, lower costs

February 6, 2013 10:14 am by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

Patients who are engaged in their own healthcare not only have better clinical outcomes but have also lower costs of healthcare, according to new studies published in HealthAffairs.By analyzing more ... Read more

Medtech cos enter fray to compete for investor attention at Tenn. conference for start-ups

February 5, 2013 12:06 pm by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

If you are a start-up located everywhere else (read outside Silicon Valley and NYC) then Memphis, Tennessee is the place to be Feb. 10 to 12.That’s because Everywhere Else.Co is ... Read more

California device company developing intravascular glucose monitor for ICU patients raises $3M

February 5, 2013 11:12 am by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

California medical device firm GluMetrics, which has developed an intravascular continuous glucose monitor, has raised a little more than $3 million in its hunt for $6 million, according to a ... Read more

Here comes the Sun(shine Act) … and it’s not going to be alright for pharma and device reps

February 4, 2013 2:49 pm by Arundhati Parmar | 5 Comments

They say it’s better late than never.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid finally issued the final rules related to the Physician Payment Sunshine Act on Friday, nearly three years after ... Read more

There are 6 types of healthcare consumers; Which ones would you like to target?

February 4, 2013 12:02 pm by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

Knowing your customer is the first rule of business.The rising tide of consumerism in the healthcare industry means that more attention is being paid to define the consumer or the ... Read more

Have a breakthrough idea in Health IT? Test it with athenahealth’s innovation program

February 1, 2013 1:00 pm by Arundhati Parmar | 0 Comments

Disruption and acquisition are the dual goals of an innovation program run by health IT firm athenahealth, appropriately named More Disruption Please.What began as an event to bring together CEOs ... Read more

$California device start-up treating vertebral compression fractures raises $14 million$