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Intuitive Surgical shipped their first surgical Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) in 1998. In the twenty-five years since, the technology has become ingrained in most surgical procedures. Incredibly, the market itself is projected to grow 7-fold over the next 7 years. This growth has created a crowded market with over 125 companies entering the RAS market...

The expanding impact of Digital Health and Digital Therapeutics is being felt by the EP sector.  Remote monitoring of implantable cardiac devices (ICDs), cardiac resynchronization therapy devices (CRT-Ds), and pacemakers have been shown to improve patient outcomes. More recent work applying convolution neural network (CNN) based artificial intelligence (AI) to the interpretation of ECG signals...

The pressure to extend product capabilities within the healthcare information systems industry has gone through cycles over the past few decades, but it has never been higher than it is right now. If you were to look at the HIMSS education track from ten years ago the focus was on getting broader adoption of existing...

Pressure continues to mount to reduce the use of in-hospital resources in order to improve the cost performance of healthcare. Developing more cost-effective methods of addressing cardiac-related illness, still the number one cause of death in the US, is a high priority. Remote monitoring and diagnostics are seen as providing tremendous advantages to cardiologists and...

Connectivity in medical devices has become ubiquitous. No longer a novelty, the ability to gather and exchange data across a network of devices is often a required part of any modern system.   Devices with more sophisticated connectivity offer extensive potential improvements: data collection allows manufacturers to improve patient outcomes by analyzing usage patterns, augmenting...

Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging: Architecture, Interoperability, and other Key Considerations   After a period of relative calm in the medical imaging market, we are now in the early stages of another era of rapid evolution. Efforts are underway on multiple fronts, to improve the effectiveness of treatment, reduce costs, and prevent diagnostic errors.   At...

The radiation oncology (RO) market continues to change rapidly. Efforts with the goals of improving the effectiveness of treatment, while reducing costs, and preventable treatment errors is driving the new capabilities into both delivery and treatment planning systems. In a change from recent years, a very large percentage of product value creation is coming from...

As anyone responsible for the development of new products knows, software engineers come in two distinct flavors; engineers that work at the application level and engineers comfortable working at the hardware level.    While this is, obviously, a gross oversimplification, the basic division is true. The application software engineers work in a space that has...

The topic of cybersecurity for medical devices has steadily grown since 2001.  In that year, after September 11, there were a number of technically philosophical talks and papers warning that cyber terrorism, later dubbed cybersecurity could become an issue for medical devices.  At the time it was considered to be of mild interest, but few...

Medical device manufacturers might consider outsourcing product development or product testing activities for a number of reasons. In general, if an outsource provider has specific experience that you lack, has more resources available, or doesn’t carry all the overhead of a large corporation, then you may be better off outsourcing. By outsourcing, manufacturers can often...