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2025年1月2日 · 7. Owens & Minor to buy Rotech Healthcare Holdings. Amount: $1.36 billion. Date announced: July 23. Owens & Minor agreed to buy home medical equipment company Rotech Healthcare Holdings to further its efforts to generate $5 billion in patient direct sales by 2028. Rotech made $750 million in net revenue in 2023 through sales of products for respiratory diseases, sleep apnea and other conditions.

2024年11月22日 · Dive Insight: Fortimedix has kept a low profile in recent years. The Dutch medtech company put out a series of press releases in 2016 and 2017, when it raised 11 million euros, received a CE mark and launched a single-port Symphonx surgery system in the U.S.. Physicians published a paper in 2020 about the learning curve …

2025年1月8日 · Dive Insight: Industry groups pushed back against the first draft in 2022, warning that the scope of the document may cause overreporting. The FDA responded in 2023 by proposing a list of product codes that would be subject to the reporting requirements.

2024年12月18日 · Medtech firms have cut thousands of workers in the last two years, leaving employees wondering what’s to come in 2025. In the past two months, DNA testing company 23&Me announced plans to cut 200 jobs, orthopedics firm Smith & Nephew announced plans to cut 150 jobs and diabetes tech firm Embecta said it would cut 125 positions after discontinuing its insulin patch pump program.

2024年9月25日 · Dive Brief: Medtronic and Siemens Healthineers have partnered to expand access to pre- and post-operative imaging technologies for spine surgery, the companies said Wednesday at the North American Spine Society annual meeting.; The firms will co-market Siemens Healthineers’ Multitom Rax X-ray imaging system and integrate it into Medtronic’s AiBLE suite of products for spine surgery.

2024年10月9日 · The number of medical devices with artificial intelligence technology has risen sharply in the past decade. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized 950 AI or machine learning-enabled devices as of Aug. 7, 2024, according to the agency’s database. While the FDA authorized the first AI-enabled device in 1995, the number of …

2024年12月16日 · PFA uses short pulses to create tiny pores in targeted cardiac tissue, disrupting the electrical signals that cause irregular heartbeats. The method has surged in popularity because it can reduce the risk of damage to surrounding tissue and shorten procedure times, compared with traditional ablation techniques. “PFA mindshare continues to accelerate among providers, gaining utilization over ...

2025年1月9日 · Dive Brief: Medtronic has inked a five-year deal to sell Kuros Biosciences’ MagnetOs bone graft technology for use in spine procedures in the U.S. ; Kuros, which disclosed the agreement Tuesday, developed MagnetOs to provide an alternative to transplanting a patient’s own bone to support spine fusion.; Medtronic also makes the Infuse bone graft product used in spinal fusion procedures.

2024年11月22日 · The Food and Drug Administration’s medical device center unveiled Thursday a pilot program meant to speed up notices to the public about potentially high-risk product recalls.. The pilot aims to improve the time between when the FDA first knows about certain corrective actions on products and when the public and healthcare providers are notified.