ARTICLE SUMMARY:
A wave of innovative technologies and expanding data sets has the potential to upend care for patients with chronic low back pain; Next-gen start-ups treat heart failure as a systemic condition; PwC bullisih on medtech M&A returning to historic levels; Olympus pioneers AI-enabled colonoscopies; Gore buys Conformal to tap into LAAO market; and profiles of GT Medical and Mendaera.