When you're the richest kid on the block, it's easy to make friends. For Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT), those friends happen to be investment bankers and venture capitalists. And the world's largest medical device maker has been on an acquisition tear of late, using its considerable cash hoard to buy nine companies since 2009.
If the United States truly wants to boost the economy and narrow its ginormous trade deficit, then medical technology would seem like a good place to start. Minnesota’s bread-and-butter industry generated a $5.4 billion trade surplus last year, one of the few American industries to do so. Which is why Obama administration officials visited Medtronic […]
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.