Archive for the ‘Industry News’ Category
Monday, December 17th, 2012
Ireland's medical technology industry gave itself a well-deserved pat on the back in Galway on 13 December 2012. And, man, there were a lot of backs to pat! Approximately 350 people donned their finest tuxedos and fanciest evening gowns to celebrate the winners of the Irish Medical Technology Industry Excellence Awards in ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_29800" align="alignleft" width="300"] Joseph Fleischhacker, CEO, and John Harris, Vice President of Operations, Lake Region Medical, accept the Medical Technology Company of the Year award from Sharon Higgins, Director, IMDA, and Barry O'Leary, CEO, IDA.[/caption]
Competition was stiff in the Medical Technology Company of the Year category at the 2012 ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Rapid prototyping is an essential component in the development and rollout of complex products. Therefore the Institute of Technical Education (ITE, Singapore), Hakko as a specialist for soldering technology and the Rapid PCB Prototyping division of LPKF Laser & Electronics signed an agreement to collaborate in training developers of printed ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2012
UBM Canon, which publishes this blog, has teamed up with the World Medical Device Organization (WMDO) to provide online training solutions for medical device companies. WMDO is headquartered in Switzerland and currently offers over 150 multimedia training courses covering preclinical, regulatory, quality assurance, clinical and post-market issues, reimbursement and health ...
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
From the wire: Appropriate procurement mechanisms, whereby small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have equal opportunities, innovation is stimulated and Europe’s market attractiveness and competitiveness upheld, can contribute significantly towards sustainable European healthcare systems, with safe, more efficient innovations being available to more people, writes Eucomed in a press ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
Guest blog from Paul Wilkins, Senior Consultant, Sagentia (Cambridge, UK)
Bringing a radical technology to market is very difficult but the rewards—to inventors and the industry as a whole—can be phenomenal. Many large companies have put significant or risky R&D programmes on hold until economic conditions improve, and so start-ups are ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) has entered into a collaboration with Gifu University to promote education and research involving medical technology. Under the agreement, students at Gifu University’s United Graduate School of Drug Discovery and Medical Information Sciences can attend classes taught by PMDA staff and have an ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
EDMA, the European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association, and Eucomed, the European medical technology industry association, will join forces under the umbrella of a European industry federation. EDMA represents national associations and major companies engaged in the research, development, manufacture or distribution of In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) tests in Europe. Combining their ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
Last week, UBM Canon Director of Content Richard Nass blogged about his conversation with eZassi CEO Peter von Dyck. The conversation focused on how US venture capitalists are increasingly endorsing launching medtech products in Europe before launching in the United States. The reason is that European companies usually require less ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Germany has a new medical cluster. The scientific institute for innovation and consulting Senetics Dr. Wolfgang Sening has established a new network for medtech suppliers in cooperation with the Innovationsoffensive Ostbayern (IOO) of the IHK Oberfranken Bayreuth, Germany. The "Netzwerk für innovative Zulieferer in der Medizintechnik - NeZuMed" (network for innovative suppliers to ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Last week, a blog post on DeviceTalk discussed several recent studies of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices, including one that found that infections are a common result, and can result in high costs and patient mortality.
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
Marshall Manufacturing has announced the repositioning of its precision machining services to accommodate a growing need from medical OEM’s who increasingly outsource engineering and design assistance responsibility as they downsize their in-house engineering departments. Responding to these changes, Marshall Manufacturing has repositioned the company as an integrated precision services provider. ...
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