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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3 days ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Nitinol innovation in cardiac medtech is not slowing down in 2025, with new devices and systems hitting milestones as device developers put the latest learnings about this nickel-titanium alloy to work. We’ll update this page throughout the year. In the meantime, you can visit Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s new nitinol hub to keep up with our latest nitinol news and coverage.
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4 days ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Sandeep Makkar discusses customer empathy and determining user needs for device design and development. It’s not easy for medical device designers and engineers to get into an operating room to observe procedures in search of better solutions. And when you get the opportunity ask a device user about their pain points, they might not even know what they really need.
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1 week ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Siemens Healthineers reported single-digit increases in compensation for its CEO and human resources chief, along with pay decreases for two other leaders. Recruiting and retaining top talent — both at the executive and engineering level — is crucial in the medtech industry, but employee compensation is kept secret in most cases. Medical Design & Outsourcing tracks and analyzes these pay figures when disclosed by major device developers and manufacturers.
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1 week ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Johnson & Johnson MedTech is keeping details of its Ottava surgical robotics system under wraps, but the new Dualto Energy System offers insight into the medtech developer’s vision for the operating room of the future. J&J MedTech recently won FDA 510(k) clearance for the Dualto generator, which is indicated for surgical procedures requiring cutting or coagulation of soft tissue.
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1 week ago |
medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand
Henry Schein reported double-digit pay increases for top executives and a slight increase for its median employee in the company’s latest pay disclosure. Henry Schein is the world’s 13th-largest medical device company, according to our 2024 Medtech Big 100 ranking by revenue. That ranking was based on the company’s 2023 revenue of $12.3 billion. Henry Schein reported revenue of $12.7 billion in fiscal 2024 (ended Dec. 28, 2024).
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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
