Quarterly recall events increased for the first time since Q2 2020.
Healthcare systems around the world are under increasing pressure to treat a rapidly growing, aging population. This was worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, which left medical professionals needing to treat more people with less time and limited resources. This article explores why medtech is uniquely placed to ease the pressures on healthcare systems by offering faster and more cost-effective care while improving patient outcomes.
The pandemic put unprecedented pressure on drug and medical device production, underlining the growing challenge of monitoring, analyzing, reporting and acting on quality. It became clearer than ever before that the more fragmented processes become, the more critical it is that they can be assessed and managed for consistent quality. At the same time, innovative tools and best practices have emerged.
President Biden intends to nominate former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D. as agency head, and the same opposition voiced during his previous nomination remains.
On the cusp of artificial intelligence (AI) becoming a ubiquitous feature of our everyday lives, researchers discover that intelligent systems thinking offers a wealth of potential applications in the fight against a cunning human adversary: Cancer.
The global giants believe the strategic moves will make their businesses stronger and more profitable long-term.
For private equity and venture capital investors alike, there are five key trends presenting both headwinds and tailwinds that may impact investment flows into 2022.
The industry association says the shortage has become a serious, industry-wide problem for companies involved in manufacturing medical technologies.
The market dynamics for telehealth and virtual care continue to evolve, and virtual care ecosystem players must understand how consumers have experienced these changes to better position themselves and design their solutions.
Digital transformation is especially important to medical device manufacturers because they must have good quality data, and especially tracking metrics, to track complaints and device performance to comply with regulatory requirements. And these requirements are just getting stricter.
