Damon Canfield is a principal in NPI, a Powell, Ohio-based consultancy that specializes in helping U.S. medical-products firms launch into the Chinese market or establish manufacturing there. NPI has technical offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China, as well as Hong Kong.
By JIM STOMMEN Medical Device Daily Contributing Writer The recent decision by the Obama administration to propose big-time funding cuts for medical prevention and wellness programs is, like many of the decisions that come out of Washington, puzzling to say the least. Done as part of the extension of the payroll tax cut, the prevention/wellness cuts supposedly are the political quid pro quo for the lawmakers agreeing to maintain Medicare payments to physicians at existing levels for the remainder of this year — the so-called “Doc fix.” With a snip-snip here and a snip-snip there, seemingly worthwhile wellness efforts such...
Damon Canfield is a principal in NPI, a Powell, Ohio-based consultancy that specializes in helping U.S. medical-products firms launch into the Chinese market or establish manufacturing there. NPI has offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China, as well as Hong Kong.
Arlen Meyers, MD, is president and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE). He also is professor of otolaryngology, dentistry and engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. The founder or co-founder of several companies, he is a consultant to life science, IT and investment firms.
Arlen Meyers, MD, is president and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE). He also is professor of otolaryngology, dentistry and engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. The founder or co-founder of several companies, he is a consultant to several life science, IT and investment firms.`
By JIM STOMMEN Medical Device Daily Contributing Writer Talk about eating from the public trough: The folks who run Medicare are putting their money where our collective mouths are. The nation’s largest health insurance plan reported awhile back that it will pay for screenings and preventive services aimed at helping recipients battle obesity and its attendant medical ailments. For those who screen positive for obesity, the newly covered benefits include initial weekly counseling for the first month, followed by five months of every-other-week appointments. Presuming weight loss continues, another six months of once-monthly sessions may follow. My initial response...
“Okay, hon. I’m headed over to MammothMart. Need to grab some beer and munchies for the Monday night game, a replacement shower head for the bathroom and maybe that new Michael Connelly book." “I might as well get the oil change and lube done on your SUV while I’m there. And while I’m there, I’ll get that loose pair of glasses tightened at the optical shop. Oh yeah, and I guess I’ll have them check out that stomach pain I’ve been having off and on.” If any of the above seems to border on crossing the line between imagination and...
A prolific inventor who died last week in upstate New York at the age of 92, Wilson Greatbatch is credited with more than 325 patents, including coming up with the first practical implantable pacemaker. Besides being memorialized for those breakthroughs, he truly should be viewed as an inveterate tinkerer who as much as any single individual represents the very best of what that term means to medical innovation. While the invention of the...
