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Devices & Diagnostics, Health IT, MedCity Influencers, Startups
MedTech companies lose huge innovation edge by sending manufacturing offshore
Big medtech companies have been criticized for their diminishing innovation record, especially from this blog. One […]
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Courts affirm that a hospital owns a doc’s invention. But can physicians change that?
A year ago we wrote about hospital systems starting to take greater ownership of physician […]
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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Physician innovators should remember human tendency to run from pain when building new solutions
I’m a born skeptic of conferences and the carousel of speakers that are on the […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
How to choose a patent attorney to defend your medical device invention
When selecting a lawyer to defend your patent application, consider experience drafting and a prosecuting application, defending patents after they are issued as well as general business experience.
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Post-market studies would rebalance the risk vs. reward calculation
In most of the world, regulatory bodies approve medical devices based on safety. Seems like […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
How physician innovators can make medical devices more efficient
The Healing Innovation (HI) blog has spent the last year making the case for greater […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers, Policy
Medical device startups: Is crowdfunding in their future?
I’m not sure why it has not received more attention in the medical device start-up […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers, Policy
A gift from the FDA: Continuity in medical device reviews during staff shakeups
Happy New Year! Healing Innovation hopes that Santa left you a great gift under the […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
Can the VdE movement bring back U.S. domination in medtech?
Anyone been following the Value-driven Engineering movement (VdE)? In response to President Obama’s “Winning the […]
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Improving Communication Between Patients and Providers
Sarah Shillington, Chief Customer Officer notes how Artera’s omnichannel platform works.
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
An innovation dilemma: Surgeons becoming investors and customers
No physician inventor should apologize for making money off an innovation that improves medicine. Certain […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers, Policy
When it comes to FDA product approvals, we just can’t have it all
The title of Scott Gottlieb’s Wall Street Journal article “How the FDA could cost you […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
Clinicians and medical device makers — a match made in healthcare heaven?
Nurjana Bachman, PhD, from Boston Children’s Hospital, has made the case that pharmaceutical companies are […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
A fine line: Physician inventors, medical devices and device promotion
All participants in medical device product development understand that physician involvement in the process leads […]
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Giving up intellectual property to hospitals: The pros and cons
Researchers at universities, similar to employees of medical device companies, are accustomed to assigning patent […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
Does FDA approval process slow down medical device innovation?
I don’t want to become an FDA basher. It just seems like every year it […]