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It was a treat to feature IBM’s Kimberly Cobb at this year’s 10x Medical Device Conference.

The full talk, slides, and video here: http://medgroup.biz/IBM-IoT

Kim finds manufacturers who say, “We don’t want to be a medical device company any longer, we want to be a services company. We want our services to drive the demand for our devices.”

Are you among them?

For this week’s discussion (and Kim promises to be an active contributor to this thread), do you believe the Internet of Things is “mission critical” for your organization?

If not, why?

If so, how will your company benefit most? Here are some possibilities:
• New revenue streams from data delivery and utility
• New markets to service (home-based care)
• Changing providers’ mindset about your value proposition
• New reimbursement codes for continuous care
• Better troubleshooting/easier to service customers

Catch the recap at http://medgroup.biz/IBM-IoT and please weigh in with your comments and questions.

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SGS is holding their Second Annual Quality and Risk Management Summit, Oct- 5-6, 2016, in Denver, CO.

See http://medgroup.biz/SGS-Denver

The 1.5-day summit brings senior professional in the Risk Management and Quality industries together with presentations and networking sessions.

Come to network with supply-chain, quality-management, and risk-management professionals from a broad range of industries!

Current speakers are:
• Mike Page, Vice President of Global Technical Stewardship at Kimberly-Clark Corporation
• Jay Harf, Vice President Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability at L’Oreal USA Inc.
• Ike Barnes, Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge for United State Secret Service
• Sean Leighton, Vice President of Quality, Safety and Environmental Sustainability for Coca-Cola North America
• Chris Morrison, Chief Executive Office at Transparency-One
• Marla Phillips, Ph.D, Director, Xavier Health
• Richard A. Vincins, Vice President Quality Assurance at Emergo

The cost is a very reasonable $199 (through September 1) for the whole summit, held at the Grand Hyatt Denver.

That link again: http://medgroup.biz/SGS-Denver

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Make it a great week.

Joe Hage
Medical Devices Group Leader

P.S. We park the good stuff at http://medgroup.biz/MDG-SITE Register there now to stay up to date.

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Cara Bilinski
Director, IT PMO Maxim Integrated
Great overview of the intersection of the Internet of Things and Medical Devices. It is exciting to think about how IOT can help the Medical Device space create meaningful value and improve patient care!

Rene Nieves-Alicea
Interesting challenges presented here to develop what to me is the natural and logical next step to using the information that medical devices generate to better serve individuals in their health management. Much like biological systems, IoT enables operating at a “systemic” level with information. The beauty of operating at that level is that, just like in biological systems, novel synergistic capabilities emerge. Can’t wait for those to materialize!

Ian Newington
Head of Special Projects at LGC Grant Management Group
Thanks for sharing Joe. Lots of thought-provoking content and will be helpful in asking questions from device innovators and developers that I work with.

Ken Powell
President
Joe – Sorry – Wrong thread and comments. That said, “Big Data” and its applications are hard to fathom their relativity to single/limited case (cancer and its evolving subsets) diagnostic scenarios. The point of personalized/precision/companion/theranostic (new name here) is to target highly specific, non-standardized therapies. I can understand and do explain to many how nex-gen can help. From today’s viewpoint, “big data” unless standardized and applied across globally highly available and standardized information that is quality controlled is very difficult.

Appreciate hearing from you on this and others topics.

Anaiza R.
Especialista de Productos MGM Productos Médicos
If excellent information thanks!

David Pazo
Process Manager
Great presentation from Kim in Digital transformation for Medical Devices companies, thanks for sharing it. Answering your question Joe, I absolutely agree with you. The use of IoT is a Critical mission in our companies, it has to be a must. Nowadays the use of disruptive technologies is the new way to interact with people, customers, markets, KOL…etc. Disruptive technologies as the big data give us a digital data flow analyzed on real time to take the correct decision and be more efficient in the creation of new services.

Don Caudy
Senior Advisor
Wow! An excellent presentation with great advice to IOT developers.

Vincent Suzara
Principal and CSO, Hydramagnetics, Inc.
Ditto and thanks for posting the talk and documents, Joe. Wish I could have attended. Echo Kim’s mantra implying the real benefit being the diagnosis, therapy, analytics and data performed in the device vs. the hardware.

Don Francis
Information Technology Executive
Thanks Joe for sharing this important and timely 10x talk. Anxious to see the impact longer term on companies like GE, Siemens and Carl Zeiss AG.

Devendra Aher
Compliance instill confidence in medical devices to make healthcare better..!
It is indeed a very great presentation in terms of IoT in Medical Device industry. Thank you very much for sharing. I remember working one of the MD maker exploring the options for RFID tags for devices, eventually only realized to UDI-DPM activity for manufacturers. I wonder how fast the transformation happens would be key to success and survival in in healthcare sector. Similarly, IoT would follow the course. Hopefully, companies are taking it into account.