Top Stories
Transformative Technologies Emerge When Worlds Collide
Convergent technologies just may be the key to the future of medicine. Advances in nanotechnology, coatings, and molecular diagnostics have blurred the lines of devices and pharmaceuticals.
Is a Consumer-Directed Strategy Right for Your Technology?
Evaluating the market potential for a new medical technology requires an in-depth understanding of a product’s intellectual property, regulatory pathway, clinical application, and reimbursement potential.
Applying Polymer Laminate Technology to Developing IVDs
A new microfabrication platform, polymer laminate technology manufacturing, offers prototyping of IVD devices, which can incorporate various different materials and onboard functionality such as porous membranes and onboard valves and pumps.
Standardising Analogue Front End Design for Ultrasound Imaging Systems
The standardisation of analogue front end products is allowing the development of portable ultrasound devices that provide enhanced image quality while minimising power consumption.
Going with the Flow of Gas-Sensing Technologies
Because sensors for monitoring gases and gas concentrations can make the difference between life and death, manufacturers are devoting increasing time and resources to making them more accurate, more reliable, and more stable.
Efficient Prototyping for Complex Components
Medical device manufacturers that need to test their designs require a quick turnaround. Advanced computer numerical control programming software can help medical prototype manufacturers produce components with more-complex geometries in less time.
Computer-on-Modules Bring Ultraportability to Medical Devices
While the medical sector in general is experiencing steady growth, portable medical equipment is a segment of the industry that is booming exponentially.
Outsourcing Whole Life Support to Maximise ROI
Increasingly, manufacturers of devices such as blood gas analysers, mass spectrometers, and high-power magnetrons are being asked to support their equipment for the whole product life cycle.
Automated Inspection Widens
Its Scope
Is 100% inspection possible? According to industry experts, 100% inspection is definitely possible. It’s just not possible using a single system. Different methodologies are required to inspect specific areas.
MD&DI's 30th Anniversary
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry celebrates 30 years as the leading source of news and information for the medical device and diagnostics industry with a special anniversary issue and an exclusive online interactive timeline exhibiting developments that have transformed the industry.
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Today's Top Jobs
- In Vivo Rheumatologist (Principal Scientist), Roche
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- Sr Supplier Quality Engineer, Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
- Associate Medical Director, Abbott
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Outsourcing Outlook: Cleanroom Manufacturing and Assembly
George Weaver, Precision Medical Products Inc.,
OEM customers and patients expect and demand particulate-free devices, including devices that are free of paper, hair, minute fragments, or foreign materials.
IVD Manufacturing and Processing
Jorgine Ellerbrock, Gen-Probe Inc.
Companies that manufacture IVDs have a lot to think about these days: contamination, outsourcing, and domestic and international regulation and labeling, to name a few.
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How to Present IVD Data to FDA
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ISO 13485, ISO 9001, and QSR Regulations for Medical Device Companies
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The Medical Device Summer School
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Drugs, Diagnostics, and Devices for the 21st Century
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Medtech Marketing Today
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Materials and Processes for Medical Devices
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Medical Design & Manufacturing Midwest
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From DeviceTalk:
Doc in the BoxWhat do you get when you cross an ATM with an airline self-check-in machine?
From Medtech Pulse:
Canon Survey: OEM Purchasing Behaviors are Changing, Quality is NotThe survey of readers of B2B publications asked how the current economic climate is affecting its audience and OEMs' purchasing decisions.
From medtechinsider:
UK Trade Association Wants to Hear From YouThe review will determine if Government intervention is needed to ensure adequate finance will be available to companies as the economy improves.
From IVDT Insight:
ViraCor, IBT Merge to Form Specialty Diagnostics CompanyThe merger of ViraCor and IBT creates a combined company with more than 200 employees.
Deploying a Global Harmonized Quality Management Solution
This webinar will examine how a global medical device company achieved differentiated customer value through its deployment of an enterprise quality management solution. Attendees will hear how the company created a standard, robust, consistent, and easy-to-use electronic process that facilitated global use and interdivisional communication.
Making Manufacturing Work More Efficiently
Rapidly changing costs, inconsistent quality, increased global competition, and new business risks and regulations are putting a variety of pressures on manufacturers and challenging their profitability. Forced to do more with less, both people and processes are running under unprecedented strain in an effort to meet customer and regulatory requirements.
Featured White Papers
A New Approach to Verifying and Validating Medical Device Development <
The list of features in medical devices is rapidly rising: Even the simplest of medical devices—such as diagnostic and monitoring systems—house more and more system components, which add greater functionality to the device at a low cost. But by adding components, device software becomes complex and burdens compliance testing and premarket certification activities, such as 510(k) submissions mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
TI's Consumer and Portable Medical Guide
The Consumer and Portable Medical Guide from TI features technical and product information for a variety of medical applications, including: heart rate/fitness monitoring systems, blood glucose and other diagnostic meters, blood pressure monitors, digital thermometers, and portable medical devices.
