Jim Hammerand
Managing Editor, Life Sciences at Medical Design & Outsourcing
Managing Editor, Life Sciences at WTWH Media LLC
Managing Editor, Life Sciences at Medical Tubing + Extrusion
Dad, journalist and hummingbird fan — managing editor at @MassDevice's @medtechdaily, previously covered travel/automotive, business and government/politics.
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2 days ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Monarch President Aleksandra Popovic explains what’s special about the upgraded system and offers advice for developing robotics and AI. Johnson & Johnson MedTech‘s Monarch robotics-assisted bronchoscopy system reaches deep into the lungs for biopsies, offering a minimally invasive alternative to transthoracic needle biopsy while maximizing diagnostic yield for earlier, more definitive results.
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4 days ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Nitinol is driving medtech innovation thanks to this nickel-titanium alloy’s shape memory and superelastic properties. Download our free Nitinol Special Report below to learn how this uniquely useful medtech metal is manufactured, processed and finished to enable a variety of cutting-edge medical devices, including many promising applications still in development. Look into the bill of materials for any cutting-edge medtech innovation, and there’s a good chance you’ll find nitinol.
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4 days ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Highridge Medical has returned to the spine tech developer’s roots and is betting big on some key technologies, CEO Rebecca Whitney says in an exclusive interview. We spoke with Whitney ahead of Highridge’s announcement that it sold its EBI bone healing business to focus on spine tech as a pure-play company.
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4 days ago |
massdevice.com | Jim Hammerand
Highridge Medical says it has sold its EBI bone healing division to private equity firm Avista Healthcare Partners. The deal allows Highridge Medical to focus on spine tech as a pure-play company, CEO Rebecca Whitney said in an exclusive interview ahead of the deal’s announcement. “We’re really excited about where we’re headed,” she said. “We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us, but so far we’re off to a really good start.”Terms of the recently completed transaction were not disclosed.
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5 days ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Next week’s return of DeviceTalks Minnesota will deliver in-depth insights into breakthrough technologies and the best practices driving their development, manufacturing, and commercialization. In just one packed day, more than 250 engineers, executives and industry professionals will gather to hear from leading OEMs, cutting-edge startups and hands-on experts across the medtech space. If you want in, don’t wait.
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Couldn’t check in for a flight through the @AlaskaAir app (said we were already checked in) and customer service claimed they’re limiting how many people can check in before they get to airport. Deleted and reinstalled app and it worked. Lying to cover up post-merger IT problems?
.@MountRainierNPS is the hardest hit on this list of @NatlParkService layoffs, with @OlympicNP and @NCascadesNPS also up there
My first story for @SFGate shares some of the findings that a brave ranger is putting together: layoff numbers in every @NatlParkService unit in the country. https://t.co/xWb0i7yGZ8
Measles exposure in Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond and Bothell
We have identified a new case of measles in an infant in King County. People who were at certain locations in King County may have been exposed. People who are vaccinated are very well protected. See our blog for a list of exposure locations: https://t.co/cNGqATbozj https://t.co/wHtYBonjoC
