The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed; Washington) weighed in on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid's (CMS) Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) during a conference call with the media on Wednesday afternoon. (Medical Device Daily)
About three months into my wife's pregnancy with my daughter, something strange happened at the doctor's office. Not to my wife or the baby per se, but rather to the way her doctors kept records. Everything went electronic. No more notes with handwriting that even the clinician that jotted down said notes couldn’t understand. Instead scribblings that looked like hieroglyphics were crisp and clean to the eye. I was impressed. Here I was seeing the implementation of the very same thing I had been writing about these past few years. I said at the time that, truly doctors offices are...
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed; Washington) released a set of policy recommendations that it hopes will preserve America's position as a leader in medical technology innovation, which it said is threatened by overseas competition and an insufficient regulatory system. (Medical Device Daily)
The path toward securing regulatory approval for a device is becoming more and more tedious. In interviews with Medical Device Daily, many med-tech firms have spoken about how increasingly difficult and complex the process has been in the last two years. One company is hoping to give a helping hand to med-tech companies who need help in putting together a plan so that they can meet regulatory approval. (Medical Device Daily)
