Medtech Matters

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Dr. Greg Nicola, the chief medical officer at NeuTigers. He shares information about the firm’s involvement with Princeton University and the neural networks they are leveraging for use in the medical space. Further, he discusses why the use of this technol...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Giovanni Di Napoli, president of Gastrointestinal at Medtronic. He shares insights on several of Medtronic’s gastrointestinal diagnostic devices, including the Pillcam—a pill-sized camera a patient swallows to gain views of the digestive tract. The device p...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Chris Hagen, vice president of the global COVID-19 task force and marketing for Beckman Coulter. He addresses a number of issues around the COVID-19 pandemic, from challenges with the ramp-up of production to securing needed supplies from a supply chain und...

In this Medtech Matters podcast episode of Mike on Medtech with Mike Drues, president of Vascular Sciences , we discuss the guidelines issued by the European Commission on the reprocessing of devices indicated by the manufacturer as beings single-use. Liability is brought up, as well as concerns such as material compatibility with reprocessing protocols with devices not intended to be used more th...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Dr. Shaka Bahadu, the COO and co-founder of Cipher Skin. He explains how his mesh measures movement and how it could be of value to physical therapists treating patients following surgery or injury. In addition, the mesh enables the attachment of additional...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Clive Smith, founder and CEO of Thinklabs. He gives an explanation of what his digital stethoscope is, how it works, and why it’s proved beneficial during the pandemic. Further, there’s a detour into a larger discussion on digital health, its evolving role...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Guy Harchen, VP Client Strategy at FreeMind Group. He provides an explanation of what non-dilutive funding is and why its so attractive to medical device firms. We also get into his vision of the future of digital health and how it will dramatically change...

In this Medtech Matters podcast episode of Mike on Medtech with Mike Drues, president of Vascular Sciences , we discuss the recent issues impacting the proposed reimbursement for products that have been granted breakthrough device status from the FDA. With talk of too many devices being given BDP status along with the fact that a newly cleared device can still be viewed as experimental, the reimbu...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Chen Levin, CEO of XACT Robotics. She offers insights on the capabilities of the XACT ACE Robotic System that enables a doctor to identify a target in the body and the robot to reach the target. The robot can make adjustments should the target move due to t...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Christophe Bancel, CEO of TISSIUM. He provides information about the incredible material technology his company offers, enabling a replacement for human tissue. Based on the mix of three polymers, the firm can vary the characteristics such that it can be us...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Ken Miller, CEO of BioVentrix. He shares insights on how his technology helps to treat patients who have suffered from a heart attack and aren’t responding well to the traditional stent protocol. His solution helps bring the heart back to its normal size af...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Mike Daley, CEO of OrthogenRx. He speaks on the benefits of hyaluronic acid (HA) to address osteoarthritis as an alternative to pain medications and surgical replacement. The FDA, however, has recently changed its oversight of HA and is now treating it as i...

In this Medtech Matters podcast episode of Mike on Medtech with Mike Drues, president of Vascular Sciences , we discuss a still relatively newer option for medical device manufacturers in gaining a priority status with their regulatory review. STeP (Safer Technologies Program) emphasizes devices that enhance safety (as opposed to efficacy as is the case with the Breakthrough Device Program). Speci...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Peter Vranes, co-founder and co-CEO of the Australian company Nutromics. He offers insight on a platform technology that enables continuous molecular monitoring. Using continuous glucose monitoring as an example for the potential for the technology, Vranes...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Jennifer Meade, president of the breast and skeletal health division at Hologic. She offers insight on the company’s recent acquisition activity as well as its partnership involving artificial intelligence. Meade also speaks to the importance of AI within H...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Dr. Maninder Bedi, founder and chief medical officer of Optimize EP, and Ravi Kartan, president and CEO of the same firm. They speak about the importance of their solution for physicians to save time reviewing EP monitoring reports. They also speak to the m...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Linnea Burman, Vice President & General Manager, Enabling Technologies: Cranial & Spinal Technologies at Medtronic. She speaks about the company’s interest in Mazor Robotics and why they made the acquisition. Burman also speaks about the evolving ro...

In this Medtech Matters podcast episode of Mike on Medtech with Mike Drues, president of Vascular Sciences , we discuss one of the most talked about regulatory elements of the last ten months—emergency use authorizations (or EUAs). The conversation is about what they are, when they are used, and, perhaps most importantly, what happens when the emergency is deemed over. Specifically, the following...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, the founder and CEO of Proximie. Her firm enables clinicians to collaborate from anywhere in the world. The solutions is hardware agnostic and enables connections in remote regions with low internet functionality. Specifically, the...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Liane Teplitsky, vice president and worldwide general manager of robotics at Zimmer Biomet. She provides some background on how we arrived at where we are today, what’s driving the robotic surgery movement, what the latest with the company’s Rosa system is,...

In this Medtech Matters podcast episode of Mike on Medtech with Mike Drues, president of Vascular Sciences , we discuss a number of the priorities Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), has mentioned in recent presentations. The agency had also laid out several priorities in a document a few years ago to be acted upon from 2018 through 2020, which ha...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Dr. Jesse Wheeler, head of MedTech and Analytics at Draper, a not-for-profit engineering innovation company. He explains what organization does and how its projects can help to improve medical devices. His latest project involves the development of an ECG s...

In this Medtech Matters podcast episode of Mike on Medtech with Mike Drues, president of Vascular Sciences , we discuss a variety of ways in which medical device manufacturers communicate with the FDA. Mike provides best practices he’s used and also shares stories from his own experience interacting with the agency for real-world projects. Specifically, we address a number of questions, including:...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Joe Mullings, chairman and CEO of The Mullings Group—a talent acquisition firm focused on medtech—and host of the web series TrueFuture. As someone who works with leading medtech manufacturers and travels the world to explore regions where new medtech is be...

In this episode of Medtech Matters, a podcast focused on the medical device manufacturing industry and the factors impacting it, we speak with Bruce Lichorowic, President and CEO of Galen Robotics. The company is developing a robotic surgical system, like other medical device manufacturers, but has interesting plans on how it will roll it out to the market. The system will not require a capital in...