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Medical Design & Outsourcing is a news platform dedicated to the medical device sector and is part of MassDevice. It is owned by WTWH Media, which is based in Cleveland. We concentrate on the latest technological developments that drive innovation in the design, development, and contract manufacturing of medical devices and equipment. Our commitment to journalistic integrity ensures that we deliver timely, accurate, and unbiased information to our audience.

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MIT has launched an effort to create more innovative medtech for children

1 day ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Chris Newmarker

The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative recently announced the establishment of the Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub to drive children’s healthcare innovation. Launched in collaboration with the Boston-based Charles H. Hood Foundation — which has committed $15 million toward the effort over the next five years — the hub will focus on developing technologies and treatments tailored specifically for children, meeting unmet needs in pediatric medicine.
MDO wins ASBPE Azbee Awards for overall excellence and Women in Medtech

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.
The Edwards Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement system uses nitinol in a new way

1 week 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.
Resonetics builds end-to-end nitinol capabilities : Here’s why that matters

1 week ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Chris Newmarker

Resonetics has long been a major supplier of nitinol to the medtech industry — but it’s increasingly become an end-to-end nitinol development and manufacturing partner. At MD&M West in Anaheim, California this February, a team of Resonetics nitinol experts presented a case study on a representative transcatheter heart valve frame.
GE HealthCare executive compensation plunges after one-time spinoff awards

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.
Why Abbott went with a balloon-in-basket design for its Volt PFA catheter

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.
In uncertain times, focus on the mission, Cognito Therapeutics leaders say

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.
Zimmer Biomet discloses pay packages for top executives and its median employee

1 week ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand

Zimmer Biomet reported a big pay increase for President and CEO Ivan Tornos in fiscal 2024 (ended Dec. 31, 2024). The company also disclosed compensation packages for top executives and reported slightly higher pay for its median worker. 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.
Is nanosecond pulsed field ablation is the next big step for PFA?

1 week ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Jim Hammerand

Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is one of the hottest areas of medtech, and nanosecond pulsed field ablation (nsPFA) is an approach with potential to advance this nonthermal, minimally invasive therapy for atrial fibrillation (AFib) and beyond. PFA catheters generate an energy field inside a patient’s pulmonary vein to block erratic heart signals by killing cardiomyocytes while sparing nearby nerves from damage.
PMN-PT researchers find medtech material's performance improves with miniaturization

1 week ago | medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com | Sean Whooley

A study at Rice University found that miniaturization of thin film material can open the door to a new generation of nanoelectronic devices. The study, published in Nature Nanotechnology, focused around lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT). This widely used ceramic material can be used in a range of applications, such as medical imaging (ultrasounds) and energy harvesting to gas sensors and more. The researchers found a “sweet spot” with the material that could enhance medical devices.