Archive for the ‘Industry News’ Category
Friday, April 15th, 2011
The German Medical Technology Association BVMed recently released its 2010/2011 annual report on the German medtech sector. In the report's editorial, BVMed Chairman Dr Meinrad Lugan calls for clear perspectives on medical technology innovations. BVMed proposes several initiatives to promote innovation and development, including stronger participation rights in the Joint ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
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Almost three-quarters of the members of IVAM, an international association of companies and institutes in the field of microtechnology, nanotechnology and advanced materials, are currently active in the medical device technology space. So it should come ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
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Most healthcare apps for smartphones tend to fall into the general health and fitness tracking categories. The chronically ill have not been on the radar of apps developers, but that is about to change, according to Berlin-based market research company research2guidance. Traditional healthcare industry ...
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
A pair of white papers from IBM Rational can help you design smarter medical products. This is essential when you’re talking about life-critical products, such as cardiac support devices, patient ventilators and drug infusion pumps.
IBM has developed a proven design methodology that offers integrated and collaborative capabilities, based on the ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
German nanotechnology investment firm Nanostart AG is investing in Microlight Sensors Pte Ltd. Founded in 2006, the company develops, manufactures and sells optical systems, instruments and components for sensor technologies. Microlight Sensors' current products make it possible to capture extremely low-intensity light and radiation near the wavelength range of infrared ...
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
As I mentioned in my previous blog post about the biomedical district in Italy's province of Modena, Ferrari, Maserati and Luciano Pavarotti may be the most prominent reasons to visit the region–along with the food and wine, of course–but if you are interested in the biomedical industry, the region in ...
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
According to the recently published Swiss Medical Technology Industry Report 2010, the countries that have the highest expected medtech growth potential for the next two years, lie outside the EU and Switzerland. One of these high-growth markets is India. On 10 November 2010, the Swiss-Indian Chamber of Commerce (SICC) together ...
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Interface Catheter Solutions, based in Laguna Niguel, CA, USA, has announced the completion of the initial part of a three-phase facility expansion plan. The project calls for newly renovated and expanded equipment assembly operations, an expanded extruded balloon tubing cleanroom and a balloon production cleanroom expansion.
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Uniform Tubes Europe is now part of Accellent, a global contract manufacturer of tubular components. Certified to ISO 13485 and ISO 9001, the newly named Accellent Manchester offers a variety of tubular components to the medical device and other industries. The company has developed in-house techniques and application engineering expertise to cut, ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
According to a current survey by German Medical Technology Association BVMed, job vacancies in the medical industry can be found in 96% of the companies. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the companies to recruit adequately qualified staff, states the report. In the survey in which 94 BVMed member companies participated, ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
A revamped lancing device for a blood sugar measurement system contains a band with test fields for 50 tests instead of individual test strips and can be docked onto a measurement device. Patients benefit from the combined pricking and measurement functions. The development of this fifth-generation device is described in ...
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
How important is the domestic medical device industry to the German economy as a whole? Germany's industry association BVMed did the numbers in the recently published 2009/2010 annual report. To wit:
Approximately 10% of jobs in Germany are healthcare related.
Healthcare spending represented 10.4% of gross domestic product in 2007, and it ...
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