Q&A: How to Evaluate New Technologies for Success
A technology and market matchmaker reveals a few tips on identifying and promoting technologies that suit product requirements and meet market demands.
How to Identify Crossover Technologies That Work for Medtech
Not every cool gadget from the consumer tech world can be applied successfully to healthcare, but the crossovers that work seem to make the hunt for that diamond in the rough worthwhile.
POREX® Showcases New Innovations in Diagnostics, Liquid Handling and Wound Management at MD&M West 2018
Anaheim, Calif. (Jan. 19, 2018) – At next month’s MD&M West 2018 event (Anaheim, CA; Feb. 6-8), Porex Corporation (“POREX®”) will showcase advanced solutions for laboratory and medical professionals that speed fluid transfer of diagnostics, improve accuracy and purity in liquid handling, and enhance wound management and improve clinical outcomes. These innovations, offering new unmatched capabilities for a wide range of life science applications, will be demonstrated at Booth #1539.
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The top 6 healthcare packaging topics of 2017
It’s been a busy year for packaging professionals in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. We’ve seen a number of exciting packaging advances emerge with the potential to transform patient care, and we’ve seen a lot of regulatory activity raise the bar for packaging and labeling.
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Why J&J Expects 2018 to be a Growth Year
Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky told analysts on Tuesday that 2017 was a transition year for its medical device business, but 2018 should be a growth year.

Gathering together world-renewed Medical Device manufacturing suppliers, Medtec China helps to propel the medical device localization process
(January 18, 2018, Shanghai China) To deliver a boost the Medical Device Industry in China, the Chinese government has proactively launched several policies directed at medical device innovation which focus on speeding up innovative Medical Device Approval and High-end medical device localization, such as “Opinions on Deepening the Innovation of Inspect and Approval System for Drugs, and Encouraging Medical Devices Innovation”, and “Three-year action plan to enhance core competitiveness of manufacturing industry (2018-2020)”.
The Human Experience: How Patients Inspire Innovation and Why Medtech Should Listen
Rather than look at patient-inspired innovation as a problem or an expensive change, the medtech industry can see the shift as an opportunity to help people live healthier lives.
6 Ways Stock Components Can Help Designers Be Innovative
Using stock components could allow designers to focus on product innovation while relying on supplier investments in tooling, efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
Designing Connected Medical Devices: Overcoming Key RF Challenges
Understanding the key design, performance, and certification issues involved in connecting medical devices can help eliminate many of the challenges facing medical device manufacturers, and direct them down the correct path.
A Robot Just Passed the Chinese Medical Exam
An AI-powered robot in China reportedly passed the country’s medical licensing examination with flying colors. The news begs the question, are AI-powered doctors closer than we thought?