PARIS – Elekta Instrument AB closed a strategic partnership agreement it values at $100 million with radiation oncology specialist Genesiscare Ltd. Elekta's Chief Commercial Officer Ian Alexander told Medical Device Daily, "This is the largest deal we have ever closed, and it is significant on a number of levels."

PARIS – Here's a puzzler that will leave you scratching your head. Say a therapeutic treatment fails to meet the end point in a clinical trial because the sham group did almost as well as the target patient group. Do you take the device to the FDA with a 510k denovo application?

Last week, Endeavour Vision SA from Geneva, Switzerland announced it had closed the largest venture capital fund ever to be dedicated exclusively to medical technologies. Medtech Growth Limited Partners holds €250 million ($279 million) to be focused on late-stage medical device start-ups, and more specifically, those with a digital health component in their products.

PARIS – Would you pay $25 million to come in on the ground floor of Super Glue?

VIENNA – Ready or not, radiology is going to the cloud. And radiologists are definitely not ready, stubbornly continuing with unstructured reports that defy data analytics and hospital-based dedicated workstations for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS).