Medical Device Logistics

ARTICLES

• “We Are Only Diabetes”

  Medical device companies often face difficult choices regarding their products, from design tweaks and regulatory red tape to determining whether to solve needs in-house or outsource.One uniquely difficult decision, though, is whether to diversify — and how much — or to specialize.

• Medtech Innovations For Diagnostics In India

  Before you can treat a disease, you need to know it exists in a patient. Across the developing world, diagnosis is a major challenge, with hundreds of millions of patients being missed by the healthcare systems due to poor access, high costs, or lack of skilled staff. This article looks at four companies from India that have approached this problem from radically different angles — with impressive results.

• Sourcing Fabrics For Medical Wearables

  An OEM or startup designing a medical device utilizing soft materials likely has an idea of the textiles and the technology they want to use. Proper sourcing of the most effective fabric ensures that the final product will be affordable enough to mass-produce, suited for tech integration, biocompatible, durable, and crafted from application-specific materials.

• From “Approved” To “Covered” — What Medical Device Companies Need to Know

  As early as possible, medical device companies need to develop an integrated strategy that identifies a path to broad payer coverage. Companies must align their R&D, clinical, regulatory, reimbursement, and sales and marketing strategies to a common goal, and have a clear understanding of the challenges ahead in order to succeed.

• China Poised To Overtake U.S. And Japan As Top Telemedicine Market

  With the U.S.' investment in R&D and Japan's historically long hospital wait times, each has potential for a telemedicine boom. But China — with its 1.4 billion inhabitants — is poised to exceed the U.S. and Japan in this market, and there are three key reasons this may occur.