
Best Practices in Managing Medical Equipment Rollouts
Successful implementation makes all the difference between a seamless changeover and a poorly executed one that interferes with the delivery of patient care.
Successful implementation makes all the difference between a seamless changeover and a poorly executed one that interferes with the delivery of patient care.
I asked if I could purchase the brace myself and bring it to the surgery. The answer was an unequivocal no: the health insurer’s contracted rate required me to purchase the brace from the hospital as part of the procedure.
Providing affordable point-of-care diagnostic tools can be instrumental in quickly and efficiently assessing the well-being of all people, especially pregnant mothers. This can empower healthcare providers to be better diagnosticians and improve overall patient care, particularly for those at risk.
While it might take another decade for widespread advanced digital surgery, the foundations are being laid today.
More effective and proactive care requires a framework that will enable the U.S. healthcare system to better meet the inevitable challenges of an aging population and pave the way for a sustainable and equitable future. Monitoring and other digital health enabled tools are helping to build that framework by offering a new medium for care delivery that can supplement primary care and care management services.
The MedTech industry has demonstrated remarkable resilience in navigating uncertainty, and 2025 promises to be a pivotal year as the election supercycle concludes and AI regulatory frameworks become clearer.
The good news is that virtual solutions are becoming more sophisticated every day to eliminate these care deserts. These promising strategies are helping.
We must think beyond one-size-fits-all solutions and embrace the diversity of obstructive sleep apnea. This means continuing to innovate, collaborating across sectors, and keeping patients at the center of every decision.
Patients who were previously facing challenges like needing oxygen after just a few steps or struggling with breathlessness from simple movements are finding new possibilities for daily life.
Effective diabetes management requires a shift from focusing purely on blood sugar levels and weight management medications to embracing the psychological and biological contributors that drive obesity and the disease.
Wearables don’t just tell us what a patient is doing — they can help us understand the context, the when and why. By linking behavior with context, we gain insights that self-reporting could never reveal.
Wearable devices, such as a glucose meter device or a defibrillator and pacemaker, can provide valuable and real-time information to a healthcare provider so that decisions can be made to protect the patient.
Right to repair would undermine the FDA’s regulations and introduce unnecessary risk into the healthcare industry, threatening the high-quality care that doctors provide patients.
To improve outcomes further, healthcare providers will need to take bold action to diagnose and manage this kidney disease before it becomes chronic or fatal.
The current model of siloed, proprietary development is failing us. It's slow, expensive, and often results in technologies that never see the light of day. What if, instead, we embraced an open-source approach to medical device innovation?