MedTech Strategist Top 5: November 2021

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The five most-read MedTech Strategist articles posted in November to MyStrategist.com include Olympus' new venture fund, digital health partnering strategies for medtech, the impact of AI and machine learning on spine surgery, and a profile of start-up STENTiT, whose bioresorbable scaffold regenerates injured arteries from the inside out.

The top five MedTech Strategist November articles, based on readers’ views. Subscribers, click through to read the full articles. Non-subscribers, take advantage of our free trial offer.

#1: Olympus Launches a Venture Fund

As part of its effort to enhance its focus on innovation and clinical impact, scope giant Olympus has launched a new corporate venture fund, Olympus Innovation Ventures.

#2: STENTiT: Scaffolds Regenerate Arteries From the Inside Out

While the first generation of bioresorbable stents aims to enhance the treatment of peripheral artery disease with temporary support, STENTiT is on to the next generation with a platform of resorbable devices that promise to do what no stent can: elicit natural regeneration of the artery.

#3: The Medtech Digital Imperative

Medtech’s growing engagement with digital health companies offers the potential of earlier intervention on a patient’s behalf, and also the promise of diversified revenue streams. By Lisa Suennen, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, and Chandana Fitzgerald, MD, HealthXL.

#4: Hospitals, Strapped for Cash, Are Buying Surgical Robots Despite Pandemic Volatility

Despite COVID-19 challenges to healthcare system finances and a lack of clinical evidence for some of the most common robotic procedures, surgical robotics remains one of the best growth opportunities in the medical device industry.

#5: Can Big Data Bring Precision Medicine to Spine Surgery?

Evidence is accumulating that artificial intelligence and other big data approaches have the potential to transform how surgeons determine the best candidates for certain types of spine surgery. Can they bring precision medicine to challenging conditions like lower back pain and adult spinal deformity?

 

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