What is the Governments Role in Healthcare?
Regulation plays a major role in the healthcare industry, and healthcare in the United States is filtered through an alphabet soup of government agencies including the HHS, the CDC, the AHRQ, the FDA and the CMS. The Department of Health and Human Services is a...
All Digital Generation Reaps Rewards from Medtech
Technology has been a driving force of change in the field of medicine for decades, and the high-tech transformation will continue to accelerate through the 2010s. Smartphones, tablet computers, mobile health (mHealth) apps, and remote monitoring devices are...
Affordable Care Act Altering Healthcare Specialties
Business is about to pick up America’s 30,000 hospitals in the coming year thanks to millions of new patients taking advantage of the Affordable Care Act. With newly insured patients seeking treatment at hospitals, patient volume is expected to grow rapidly. The...
Cleveland Clinic Continues Pursuit of New Health Technologies in 2014
The Cleveland Clinic is regarded as the fourth best hospital in the country and has ranked as the number one cardiac hospital for the past two decades. Known for its technological efficiency and culture of innovation, Cleveland Clinic’s top technologies for 2014 are...
Medical Education is Changing Too
Trends in medical education are being affected by the collision of two big numbers—30 million and 76 million. Thirty million represents the number of formerly uninsured people who are expected to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act a.k.a....
Is There Sustainability in Medtech?
Most people in need of medical devices don’t stop to think about the environment. But that’s not stopping some medtech manufacturers from implementing policies to make their operations more sustainable. Arlington, Virginia-based MackMedical, which provides injection...
Medical Diagnostics is Moving Ahead
While many people take it for granted, the ability of the modern medical establishment to diagnose diseases and disorders is astounding. In addition to medical expertise, doctors rely on numerous medical devices for diagnostic testing. Some of the most familiar...
How is Medtech Changing Orthopedics?
Millions of people love to jog, ski, play tennis, football, soccer and take part in x-extreme sports. Perhaps this is why so many suffer tennis elbow, runner’s knee, bone fractures, torn rotator cuffs and countless other orthopedic aliments. Orthopedics is a branch of...
Patent Reform and What it Means for Medtech Innovators
The founding fathers of the United States were Renaissance Men. In addition to creating the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, several of them were also inventors. George Washington invented a 16-sided barn to thresh grain cleanly and efficiently....