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The Product Portfolio Management Benchmark results are in. 46% of product development organizations have challenges getting accurate data to make portfolio decisions. Do you? Have you missed a time-to-market window or revenue target as a result? C.R....
Argentinian cardiologist Rafael Diaz is alarmed. He says nearly 50% of us have blood pressure (BP) readings over 140/90 mmHg (hypertension). 40% with hypertension don’t know it. And only 15% who know they have it, treat it. He writes, "Hypertension w...
Stayin' Alive: How much would you pay? At Exponential Medicine this week we met an extraordinary man who told us about his devastating 2012 brain injury from a cycling accident. He credits his survival to a positive attitude, friendships, goal-settin...
How do you alert everyone on your development team about product risks? In an email? A shared drive? Verbal communication in a team meeting? A recent study of 500 employees working on Class II or Class III devices (see http://medgroup.biz/managing-ri...
Eric Rasmussen, author of the very popular Ebola discussion on our Medical Devices Group, is, foremost, a humanitarian. His "The Future of Global Health" (see http://medgroup.biz/future-global-health for the video recap and transcript) gave a soberin...
Jeffrey Baird, chairman of the Health Care Group at Brown & Fortunato, a Texas-based law firm, represents infusion companies, home medical equipment (HME) companies, and other health care providers throughout the United States. We were talking about ...
David Stambaugh forwarded me a thought-provoking paper on trends affecting medical devices. For today's discussion, do you believe the aging population will benefit us most? The paper says, "According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servic...
If you're in the business of collecting and using healthcare data to improve patient outcomes, have I got a treat for you. http://medgroup.biz/big-data-healthcare-transformation That's a link to the complete 10x talk by Dr. Marty Kohn, formerly the C...
This is a gift. A must-watch video from Dr. Daniel Kraft, the keynote speaker from this year's 10x Medical Device Conference. http://medgroup.biz/Reimagining-Health-Daniel-Kraft In it, Daniel gives a fascinating account of the exponential changes we'...
Serial medical device entrepreneur Dr. Yuri Sokolov asks the group, "What comprises product market validation today?" He assembled this list for today's discussion. (I think it's missing a thing or two.) 1. Meeting regulatory requirements – confirmed...
