Soapbox

Playing by the Rules:
A Lever for Doing Better Business?

By Xavier Duburcq, Ph.D., ProductLife Group

Investments in new processes and systems must satisfy the needs of the authorities and ensure patient safety and public confidence. Getting it right is likely to be expensive. but regulatory compliance shouldn’t be viewed purely as a cost center.

Full Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Life Sciences Industry Still Uncertain

By Maria Fontanazza, Editor-in-Chief

While companies developing solutions that address the current pandemic may be receiving an influx of financial support, recovery for companies in other segments of the industry is slow.

MEDdesign

Risk Management and Other Cybersecurity Considerations
for Connected Medical Devices

By Jesse Wood, Intertek

While connected capabilities and wireless technology certainly lead to greater patient care, they also expose devices to greater cybersecurity risks.

This September:

Medical Device Cybersecurity Conference
to Tackle Critical Legacy Issues

By MedTech Intelligence Staff

This year’s virtual event features experts from medical device companies, hospitals and government organizations.

Featured Quote

Interestingly, physicians were relying on their foreign colleagues’ early descriptions of COVID-19 illness as visualized on chest X-ray and CT scan to diagnose the disease long before the stuttering rollout of the reagent-based COVID-19 test. To me, this highlights one advantage that imaging-based diagnostics have over lab-based diagnostics.

— Raja Srinivasan, M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine

MEDdesign

The New ICU

By Jane Chao, Ph.D., Ceribell; Jason Siegel, M.D., Mayo Clinic;
and Sayona John, M.D., Rush University Medical Center

The pace of innovation in the ICU is orders of magnitude slower than that of the cath lab and OR, and the COVID-19 crisis has pushed, tested, and exposed ICUs for lacking state-of-the-art technology and resources.

In Design of Virtual Care Tech,
'User Experience Can’t Be an Afterthought’

By Maria Fontanazza

In a Q&A with Zipnosis, Catherine Murphy explains the uptick in telehealth visits and how it is changing the continuum of care.

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