Jim Hammerand

6 days ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand

Medical Design & Outsourcing and members of our team are national finalists for a top honor in the annual American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) Awards of Excellence competition. The ASBPE Awards of Excellence, also called the Azbee Awards, recognize the highest quality reporting, editing and design in business-to-business, trade, association and professional publications.

6 days ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand

The first-of-its-kind Edwards Lifesciences Sapien M3 transfemoral TMVR system uses nitinol to anchor the replacement valve in a patient’s heart. Nitinol is commonly used in replacement heart valve frames, but that’s not how the new Edwards Lifesciences Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system uses nitinol’s shape memory properties.

1 week ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand

GE HealthCare Technologies reported lower pay for top executives and the company’s median employee in its latest pay disclosure. For executives, the decrease in 2024 was mostly due to one-time stock awards they received in 2023 when GE HealthCare spun off from General Electric as an independent company and paid out Founders Grants to around 8,200 leaders.

1 week ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand

Continuing our series of posts about how Abbott developed and designed its Volt pulsed field ablation (PFA) system, we’ll now look at the cardiac ablation catheter that creates lesions in the heart to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib). Abbott Electrophysiology Chief Medical Officer Dr. Christopher Piorkowski first discussed this unique design with Medical Design & Outsourcing in January 2024, shortly after Medtronic’s PFA system won the first FDA approval for treating AFib.

1 week ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand

Cognito Therapeutics CEO Christian Howell was a Medtronic VP when Geoff Martha was taking over for outgoing CEO Omar Ishrak and remembers asking Ishrak what advice he would offer his successor. “I thought I was going to get this Jack Welch-ian perspective on leading a enormous company, and he said, ‘Christian, it’s unbelievably simple. It’s fidelity to the mission,'” Howell recalls.