J&J Must Pay $344 Million for Marketing of Pelvic Mesh in California Case

By MedTech Intelligence Staff

The state’s attorney general said J&J put its profits “ahead of the health of millions of women”.

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4 Keys to Funding Your Medical Device

By Jon Speer, GreenlightGuru

How will you make your company more attractive to investors?

Coronavirus (2019-nCoV):
Currently No Medical Countermeasures Exist

By MedTech Intelligence Staff

FDA, CDC and other agencies are trying to foster the development of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines that help address the outbreak.

Update:
FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for First Coronavirus Diagnostic Panel

By MedTech Intelligence Staff

The agency is allowing the emergency use of a CDC 2019-nCoV real-time PCR panel.

Will the 2020 Elections Affect MedTech Investment? Maybe

By Maria Fontanazza, Editor-in-Chief

The outlook for 2020 and beyond is positive, but medical device companies must continue to evolve their technologies and partnerships to keep the attention of investors.

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The task of targeting, segmenting and engaging medtech customers has grown much more complex with eroding physician autonomy and the rise of non-clinical stakeholders.

— Ed Park, Decision Resources Group

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Testing Devices Critical Part of Improving Patient Safety

By Maria Fontanazza

Video: With the objective of improving patient care, ECRI tests medical devices to evaluate potential hazards and human factors issues that could be present in a real-world setting.

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Understand Injection Mold Design for Custom Plastic Parts

Part designers look at all the aspects necessary for function, aesthetics, and performance of a product. Mold design engineers check a part design for manufacturing. They review part elements to determine injection mold features like actions, lifters, runner systems, and gates. Consideration of these guidelines will progress your design to a manufactured product. Receive Crescent’s “Injection Mold Design” guidelines.

Siemens Live Webinar about MedTech digitalization

MedTech companies must navigate the question of how their digital evolution will take place. Attend this webinar to discover the role of best-in-class and integrated software solutions for Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and explore the key benefits they generate for Medical Device and Diagnostics (MD&D) firms.

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EU MDR Risk Management Web Seminar

April 6-7, 2020

This two half-day virtual event features presentations and panel discussions by speakers from notified bodies and top medical device companies.

Topics covered:

• Introduction and Overview - Risk Management and the EU MDR
• ISO 14971:2019 – Overview and Applicability to EU MDR and other regions
• Design and Usability Requirements with respect to EU MDR
• Practical application of Risk Management for EU MDR
• EU MDR and Post Market Surveillance Requirements
• EU MDR additional Monitoring and Trending Requirements
• Post Market Surveillance methods and best practices
• Post Market Surveillance and Risk Management
• Application of Risk Management for Post Market Surveillance and Trending
• Tying it all together - EU MDR / Risk Management / Post Market Surveillance

Register Now at www.EU-MDR.events