Case against Medtronic’s Infuse bone-growth device now potentially headed to the Supreme Court
Years of pain and surgeries have led Patricia Caplinger to move things forward to the Supreme Court with her case against Medtronic and its Infuse device.
IBM, Medtronic win grant to launch digital medicine incubator in Israel
IBM and Medtronic are part of a group that has won a grant from the Israeli government to open a digital medicine incubator.
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Accelerating Claim Processing: Strategies to Shorten the Life of a Claim
These strategies and practices can significantly shorten the life cycle of claims, leading to quicker resolutions and improved financial outcomes.
Why Google and DexCom will change the Type 2 diabetes market
Google and DexCom are building a better glucose sensor; this will impact the Type 2 diabetes market and help usher in a new era of artificial pancreases.
Medtronic highlights evolving diabetes strategy, Astellas pairs with Swiss biotech in $760M deal (Morning Read)
Medtronic highlighted a shift in its diabetes strategy towards smaller deals in the latest quarterly earnings report.
Glooko adds Medtronic as investor in $16.5M Series B
Glooko, a digital health company that helps users unlock data from their glucose meter and wearables to better manage patients, has raised a Series B round led by Medtronic and Canaan Partners. The Social + Capital Partnership and Samsung’s venture investment arm also participated in the round. Glooko added Samsung as a strategic partner last […]
Medtronic named best place to work in medical sales in 2015
MedReps.com surveyed 1,400 members of the site’s community, who currently work or recently worked in medical sales, to determine which companies are the best to work for overall. Best medical device company: Medtronic. Stryker and Johnson & Johnson ranked second and third. Best pharma company: Johnson & Johnson. Pfizer and Eli Lilly ranked second and […]
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The Promise of Value-Based Care and MedTech Innovation
Monica Vajani, Executive Director for mHUB’s MedTech Accelerator, discusses how mHUB is helping innovators transition healthcare towards value-based care.
Report: Neurological device market is hot, hot, hot.
This could be a good time to focus on the neurological device sector: The market for these tools is on the upswing and projected to hit $5 billion by 2020, thanks to an increase in neurological procedures (and better available technology), a report form Canadian firm iData Research says. The neuromodulation sector is expected to perform well, the report […]
Medtronic founder: Frankenstein inspired me to build the portable pacemaker
In the preface to Frankenstein, Mary Shelley described her reflections following conversations with other intellectuals considering 19th century science: “Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things,” she wrote. “Perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.” Despite fear or superstition about […]
Why closed HIT systems are going the way of the dinosaur (and how to avoid extinction)
When I became the chief executive of West Health after 34 years at Johnson & Johnson, I asked my new colleagues why any company would give up the competitive advantage of a proprietary system. Having served as J&J’s worldwide chairman of Medical Devices & Diagnostics, I couldn’t imagine why any company would do so. I’ve […]
Florida hospital first in state to implant ‘world’s smallest’ pacemaker’
Cardiologists at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville said they were the first in the state of Florida to implant the worlds’t smallest pacemaker, developed by Medtronic. The pacemaker, according to the hospital, is one-tenth the size of a conventional pacemaker and comparable in size to a large vitamin. The Micra Transcatheter Pacing System also does […]
What Healthcare Can Learn from Costco
The path forward is clear: employers must evaluate their health plan the same way they do their Saturday shopping excursion.
Why watching surgeons work is critical to medical device design
By Christine Horan and Allan Cameron Electrosurgical instruments are used to cut through soft tissue and bone but they also are used to control the bleeding that, consequently, occurs during orthopedic procedures. The problem is that the power that cuts tissue so effectively is actually over-powered for blood vessel sealing and can burn tissue, leaving behind […]
Business model update: How medical device firms can attract more innovators
For years the standard operating procedure for the medical device world has been: Bring good tech to patients and be rewarded by the market. Healthcare reform and particularly the consolidation of doctor practices is making this model obsolete. Now the challenge is more along the lines of “Justify your existence.” Device companies have to revamp […]
Apple: Medtronic has developed 175 iPhone and iPad apps for employees to use
Updated: When I tuned into Apple’s quarterly earning conference call yesterday, my goal was to get more information on its IBM collaboration, particularly what it could do with Watson’s big data capabilities in healthcare. Analysts tried but Apple wouldn’t go into details. But I did find an interesting tidbit about 13 minutes into the call […]
Implantable brain device could restore lost memories, help create new ones
Here’s a story with a slight Cyborg ring to it: An implantable brain device that can potentially restore the memory of patients with traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and related conditions is being developed at the government’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The technology sits at the nexus of human, neuron-based memory and digital, computer chip-based memory: The device […]
Medtronic tech leader offers 4 metrics for measuring an innovation department
Paul Thompson, director of IT innovation at Medtronic, explained how he held on for four years to bring the “hospital of the future” to life. His work is part of the company’s larger push to move from a device maker to a healthcare services provider, which he compared to IBM’s move from hardware to services. […]