You certainly can’t accuse Bruce Barclay of standing still. Since SurModics Inc. (NASDAQ: SRDX) named Barclay CEO in 2005, Barclay has reorganized the drug company’s business units, purchased land, signed licensing agreements, acquired several companies and expanded into ophthalmology and drug development. Yet the company, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., still has little to show […]
en. Linda Berglin, the chair of her chamber’s Health and Human Services Budget Division and the key legislative leader in the debate over GAMC, tells PIM the plan advanced on Monday by Rep. Matt Dean, R-Dellwood, is “less objectionable” than the auto-enrollment of former GAMC recipients in MinnesotaCare that the Pawlenty administration began to implement this week.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
This is the second major divestiture for AMS in the past six months. The Minnetonka-based company sold its Ovion sterilization technology to Mountain View, Calif.-based Conceptus Inc. for $23.6 million last October.
That bodes well for Minnesota's publicly traded medical device companies, including St. Jude Medical Inc., SurModics Inc. and Rochester Medical Corp., which were among the first to begin reporting fourth-quarter and yearly results last week.
After discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, EnteroMedics will apply for approval to conduct another human trial to supplement results from an earlier study, which showed the company's Maestro's device did not perform any better than the control group.
Despite a tough economy and uncertainties over health care reform, UnitedHealth, the nation's largest private insurer, said sales jumped 7.3 percent to $8.7 billion.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.