Unsustainable trends including aging demographics, chronic disease, cost of care, and caregiver shortage are driving a global healthcare crisis and even threatening the global economy. Wearable biosensor technology that remotely connects patients and caregivers is the force-multiplier to address these global challenges. The global market for biosensors to monitor health for aging, clinical, and consumer health will exceed $100 billion annually by 2015.

As the debate over the continuing resolution persists, medical device makers are not the only ones wondering when and how it will end. The device tax repeal has been floated as a condition of a continuing resolution, but it might also be instructive to ask ourselves what the future holds for med tech. Part of the reason for the partisan nature of the CR debate is that the Affordable Care Act – the legislation that gave rise to the device tax – was itself the most partisan piece...

With China becoming increasingly competitive for device makers, Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) has set up a new research center to seek out innovations and better tailor products to the market.