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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...
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...
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I read a valuable paper from ICON plc about hitting cost efficiencies while still achieving productivity and growth. You can download it for free at http://medgroup.biz/ICONplc Entitled "Achieving Challenging Mandates for Cost Savings and Pipeline Pr...
During last week's JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, Andy Slavitt, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said, "In 2016, meaningful use as it has existed β with MACRA β will now be effectively over and replaced ...
As originally asked by Joerg Schulze-Clewing. Friday I quickly needed info about susceptibility standards for pacemakers. Quickly as in "right now". So I went to the AAMI web site, found the respective standard, whipped out my credit card but then de...
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As originally asked by Jose Luis Maglione. Hello Group!! I would like to share with you a doubt about how to assess how often a calibration is needed and what international Regulation/Standards should be tested for devices like signal generators, Pat...
Good or bad? The US House-approved "21st Century Cures Act" (now on its way to the Senate) tries to reduce the costs of bringing treatments to the patients that need them. Here's a link to the short US Energy and Commerce Committee paper which recomm...
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 β confirmed...