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The future of medtech is about connectivity and data

Here’s why medtech companies must embrace innovation, connectivity and disruption.

DeviceTalks

Healthcare must shift away from responding to acute episodes and focus on chronic and preventive care to provide better care, value, and population health. Data will inform the transition. Key questions include, “What does this mean for medtech? What role does medtech play in the future?”

The topic of innovation in healthcare — including devices, data, and disruption — was the focus of a recent episode of DeviceTalks Tuesdays, sponsored by S3 Connected Health.

Panelists included medical device experts Bill Betten, director of solutions – medtech for S3 Connected Health, and Michael Hill, PhD, retired VP of corporate science, technology and innovation at Medtronic and currently a partner at Science Innovation.

Here are five takeaways on the growing importance of data and disruption in medtech.

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The future of medtech is about connectivity and data

Here’s why medtech companies must embrace innovation, connectivity and disruption.

DeviceTalks

Healthcare must shift away from responding to acute episodes and focus on chronic and preventive care to provide better care, value, and population health. Data will inform the transition. Key questions include, “What does this mean for medtech? What role does medtech play in the future?”

The topic of innovation in healthcare — including devices, data, and disruption — was the focus of a recent episode of DeviceTalks Tuesdays, sponsored by S3 Connected Health.

Panelists included medical device experts Bill Betten, director of solutions – medtech for S3 Connected Health, and Michael Hill, PhD, retired VP of corporate science, technology and innovation at Medtronic and currently a partner at Science Innovation.

Here are five takeaways on the growing importance of data and disruption in medtech:

1. Medical devices are becoming connected

Initially, “T…

DTW podcast: Connect your devices before it’s too late

Twenty years ago when he was working at the Mayo Clinic, cardiologist Dr. David Hayes shot down the idea that medical devices would serve patients better if equipped with technology that collected and transmitted data.

Hayes had many reasons. He said patients liked coming to the doctors’ offices. “I thought they’d miss that connection,” he said. He worried that physicians would be overwhelmed with too much data. He had other objections, too, and he’s not afraid to admit it.

“You could just check them off one-by-one,” he said in this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast. “I was wrong on every one.”

Now chief medical officer for Biotronik, Hayes came around years ago and is responsible for ensuring the medical device company keeps moving forward in incorporating technology that can connect patients with physicians and hospitals. Biotronik is among the growing number of medical device companies that are examining new potential for medtech connectivity.

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DTW podcast: Connect your devices before it’s too late

Twenty years ago when he was working at the Mayo Clinic, cardiologist Dr. David Hayes shot down the idea that medical devices would serve patients better if equipped with technology that collected and transmitted data.

Hayes had many reasons. He said patients liked coming to the doctors’ offices. “I thought they’d miss that connection,” he said. He worried that physicians would be overwhelmed with too much data. He had other objections, too, and he’s not afraid to admit it.

“You could just check them off one-by-one,” he said in this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast. “I was wrong on every one.”

Now chief medical officer for Biotronik, Hayes came around years ago and is responsible for ensuring the medical device company keeps moving forward in incorporating technology that can connect patients with physicians and hospitals. Biotronik is among the growing number of medical device companies that are examining new potential for medtech connectivity.…