Will Pressures in Medical Manufacturing Reach Your Production Floor?
Cost and pricing pressures are squeezing medical device manufacturers. (originally published in the DeviceTalk blog on March 9, 2016) Manufacturers in the healthcare industry are facing a mix of cost and pricing pressures, from government regulations to changes in how hospitals pay for their goods. The solution: Companies will have...
Survey: Blue skies behind a glass ceiling for women execs in medtech
By Fink Densford in MassDevice, February 2, 2016 A new survey of women executives in medtech reveals that while most feel they hold as much power as their male counterparts, they don’t see the same pay or opportunities for investment. The survey, managed by Medi-Vantage for MassMedic and the Women in...
The Art of Designing for Infection Prevention
The Art of Designing for Infection Prevention By Lise Moloney, director of business development, healthcare, Sciessent We’ve all read the horror stories about healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) wreaking havoc at hospitals across the U.S. and the globe. Many HAIs, including CRE and MRSA, are caused by antibiotic-resistant organisms and have...
MassMEDIC Member Evaluate Publishes MedTech World Preview 2015, Outlook to 2020
EvaluateMedTech World Preview 2015, Outlook to 2020 – published at AdvaMed Conference , October 2015
UDI – If You Do It, With They Use It?
UDI: If You Do It, Will They Use It? By Karen Conway, Executive Director, Industry Relations, GHX We are about the cross the second major milestone for healthcare manufacturers when it comes to compliance with the US FDA’s Unique Device Identification Rule. That rule requires manufacturers to assign and label...
Medtech gets serious about cybersecurity
By Val Kennedy in MassDevice, October 6, 2015 The medtech industry is getting serious about cybersecurity. At a recent seminar held by the Mass. Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC), medical device executives, regulators and security experts discussed which systems and devices were most vulnerable to malicious hacking and what could...
Device Makers Take Note: Cyber Attacks Are Already Hitting Healthcare
By Marie Thibault in MDDI, September 29, 2015 … As more evidence that cybersecurity is becoming a hot topic for the device industry, an upcoming conference being hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC), “Preventing the Unthinkable: Issues in MedTech Cyber Security—Trends and Policies,” is devoted to the...
MassMEDIC Member, Pacific Bridge Medical, Publishes White Paper on Reimbursement in China
WHAT IS THE PROCESS TO GET MEDICAL DEVICES REIMBURSED IN CHINA? By Ames Gross, Pacific Bridge Medical Background Getting medical devices registered and approved in China has become much more difficult with the October, 2014 reforms. The cost is higher and the timeframe for registrations is a lot longer....
MassMEDIC Industry News Roundup
Report: Senate to take up medical device tax repeal this year MassDevice, August 26, 2015 http://www.massdevice.com/report-senate-to-take-up-medical-device-tax-repeal-this-year/ Task force releases recommendations to FDA on improving medical device evaluation FierceMedicalDevices, August 26, 2015 http://www.fiercemedicaldevices.com/story/task-force-releases-recommendations-fda-improving-postmarket-medical-device/2015-08-26 Finding the Fierce: A call for nominations of the top women in med tech FierceMedicalDevices, August...
Ropes & Gray Publishes “China’s Medical Device Market: New Policies, Higher Stakes”
The recent introduction of the Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices (also known as State Council Order 650) has created significant impact in the medical device industry in China. The changes affect products at each stage of their life cycle. MassMEDIC member, Ropes and Gray, collaborating with McKinsey &...