Medical device development tips for professionals, from professionals
Medtech pros know there are some things you just can’t find with a Google search or by asking ChatGPT.
Sure, those generative AI responses sound confident. But anyone who has queried a large language model on a topic in which they’re an expert quickly realizes these chatbots don’t actually know anything and can’t reason.
In medtech, you need real expertise from people who have been there before and succeeded. More than ever, we at Medical Design & Outsourcing are committed to serving you with that authoritative, authentic expertise and being transparent about our sources.
This latest version of our annual Medical Device Handbook offers tech tips and actionable advice from medtech pros with a track record of success at device OEMs and their partners for raw materials, components, contract development and manufacturing, and other outsourced services.
No one has more AI-enabled medical devices on the FDA’s list of marketing authorizations than GE HealthCare, and our cover story explores its use of artificial intelligence, its vision for the technology and Chief AI Officer Parminder Bhatia’s tips for other device developers to take advantage of the latest advances.
Is there a company with more cardiac implant experience than Medtronic? In another feature, Dr. Jonathan Piccini offers lessons from Medtronic’s Define AFib study of implantable cardiac monitors.
And in our final feature, we share the latest on pulsed-field ablation system safety from Boston Scientific’s Dr. Brad Sutton and Abbott’s Dr. Christopher Piorkowski as they blaze new trails for this minimally invasive technology.
This issue also features advice from other medical device developers and experts in materials, regulatory matters and cybersecurity:
It’s the kind of expertise we strive to offer in every magazine we print, every newsletter we send, every webinar we host and every special report we publish.
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We’re only able to do this thanks to the willingness of medtech experts to share what they’re doing and what they’ve learned with our audience of medical device professionals. We want to inspire and enable you to advance the medtech mission.
As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Medical Design & Outsourcing. Thank you for reading.
– Jim Hammerand, Managing Editor
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