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Rick Satava, Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Washington, is in high demand. He served in three combat missions during his 23 years as a combat surgeon in the military and spent 14 years at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Proje...
Too good not to share from my friend Gunter Wessels His main point: "Appropriateness of care” will guide coverage, payment, and utilization of your devices from now on. MYTH 1: Device tax repeal will happen. We don’t see how the device tax will be dr...
A few months back at a medical device investor conference, an Intellectual Property (IP) lawyer basically said: If a LARGE company steals a SMALL company's IP – and SMALL sues – SMALL will lose most of the time because it doesn't have deep pockets, b...
IBM's Global Medical Device Business Development Leader Stephen Pierce joined last year's 10x Conference with thoughts on wireless and wearables' impact on healthcare. See the replay at http://medgroup.biz/IBM-health (transcript also available) "A gr...
Privately held Theranos, valued at $9 billion, got a one-two punch of FDA visit and negative WSJ coverage this week. "This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you and then all of a sudden...
Any bets on which group member will "pull an Anthem?" Anthem Blue Cross, America's second-biggest health insurer, did not encrypt the 80-million customer and patient records now in the hands of hackers. Encryption would have rendered the stolen data ...
Under a barrage of negative press, wellness company HealBe attended this year's Consumer Electronics Show with their GoBe calorie counter. See: "Hands-On with the Healbe GoBe at CES 2015" http://ow.ly/HdjyK "Have You Contributed to a Health Scam? htt...
In 2014, the Medical Devices Group swelled past a quarter-million members, we hosted the second annual 10x Medical Device Conference, and many of you met in person, talked here, and made valuable business connections. Here are the most popular discus...
I have many thoughts on this. But I'm not going to write them. This is your conversation. Has the Sony breach been mentioned at work? At the watercooler or in the executive office? Are you going to shuffle priorities at all? Are you going to spend mo...
According to orthopedic surgeon Howard Luks MD, "The worst offenders are the EMR companies, physician group consultants, and revenue cycle management company reps." Howard's talking about the solicitations he gets on LinkedIn. “Physicians on LinkedIn...
