Medtronic Beats Edwards with Valve-in-Valve Replacement Use for TAVR
FDA has granted a first-of-its-kind expanded approval for Medtronic’s CoreValve System for valve-in-valve replacement.
Engineering a Silver Bullet to Fight Infection
NC State Industrial & Systems Engineering research team arms orthopedic implants with battery-activated nanotechnology.
Who Should Hold Your Product Registrations in Asia?
Most international medical device companies work with Asian distributors to sell their products in the local marketplace. Finding, qualifying, and signing up the right distributors is an important job since these distributors will sell your products locally. Another key aspect is who holds the registration.
Medical Device Development Outsource Selection? Consider a Checklist Manifesto
Using a checklist to find the best outsourced partner to develop your medical device can help reduce errors, increase safety and ultimately improve performance outcomes.
Ten Tips For Making the Right Connections
From contacts and sealing, to cable assembly requirements and miniaturization, here’s a step-by-step guide for engineers to help them ask the right questions as they determine connectors they will be need for their devices.
Are You Ready for 3-D Printing?
This technology is poised to deliver cost benefits and advance innovation in manufacturing, and companies will have to focus on replacing old protocols relying on extensive up-front testing and validation of traditional production tools, and understand steps needed to satisfy their quality requirements in the future, describes a new McKinsey report.
Uber has taken the struggling, often unloved taxi industry and reinvented it successfully based largely on one premise: Customer is king. In stark contrast, the healthcare industry clearly does not seem to share this mantra.
Ask the Expert : Overcoming Barriers to Improvement
As medical device complexity grows, the product development process often needs to improve in order to maintain device quality and safety, foster innovation, and reduce costs. Yet teams looking to make improvements often encounter resistance from management. This Ask the Expert focuses on how you can overcome barriers to improving the medical device development process.
Improving Compliance, Increasing Innovation
From increasing focus on reimbursement and economic value, to impact of UDI and the medical device user fees, three industry experts discuss current market and regulatory trends and challenges shaping the medical device industry, and offer some effective strategies for companies to follow to remain competitive.
Design Considerations for Multi-Material Molding of Thermoplastic Elastomers
Multi-material molding, a process whereby at least one melt processible material is bonded with at least one other material to produce a single, molded component, allows designers to optimize material properties and costs, eliminate assembly processes, and even invent ground-breaking products that could not be manufactured otherwise.
