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Holly Scott with all the medtech news for the week can be found here

Sean Whooley with Biggest Cardiovascular Stories from TCT 2024

Time’s list of best inventions of 2024 – Medical Devices

Joe Mullings breaks down his views on medtech – analog and digital space - 美敦力 , Johnson & Johnson MedTech , Intuitive and emerging players.

Ellen Brown on what she learned this week while covering obesity, GLP-1, ōURA , lifestyle medicine, Medicare Advantage being disrupted and much more.

Med Tech Findings

Another Holly Scott post that is meaningful for those in med device with Drive Your Career: Trends to Watch in 2025

Interesting view from Brian K. Buntz on R&D spend pharma vs medtech

Elise Reuter covers the M&A strategies of Stryker and Zimmer Biomet in this piece.

Chris Newmarker on AtriCure, Inc. 's announcement of exclusive license and development agreement with an expert in the PFA field to accelerate the introduction of PFA technology to our cardiac surgery devices.

美敦力 on the state of US Surgery and Wait OR times for Robotic Surgery - 41% said they only have to wait 1-3 days, 23% wait 1-2 weeks, while 36% wait a month or longer.* LinkedIn Survey N=64

Sean Whooley reports that China causing major headwinds for medtech - GE医疗 , 飞利浦 , 西门子医疗 , 美国BD公司 , Intuitive can be read here. Similarly, Johnson & Johnson MedTech is having persistent challenges in China in J&J medtech fails to meet growth expectations.

Medtech Webinars

Vizient, Inc Sg2 with a medical device webinar upcoming November 13th including ? Data-backed clinical and financial insights? Maximizing impact of money spent on medical devices and other items used in and around ORs and procedural areas

Also on November 13, LSI will be providing a webinar on Ortho and Spine Device - registration here

Medtech is a $630B global market. Ortho/Spine will account for $55B in 2024 and the fragmentation of the competitive landscape is worth noting. While 60% of the market is attributable to six major players - none of these companies account for more than 20% of total product sales. Meanwhile, the remaining 40% is highly fragmented across hundreds of smaller and emerging companies.

GLP-1 News

Wegovy evidence reduces all-cause admissions in Becker's

Viking Therapeutics, Inc. Touts Promising Phase I Weight Loss Data for Obesity Pill Candidate from BioSpace

阿斯利康 says experimental obesity pill safe in early-stage trial in Reuters

GLP-1s and compbound pharmacies are a hot news topic with Webmd covering the topic with an in-depth look at an industry that was thrusted into the spotlight with GLP-1 shortages– hat tip to Wayne Sakamoto

益普索 with an informational webinar on current and emerging trends on GLP-1. Thanks Kristopher Hull

More information here from Ipsos on GLP-1

More than half of all Americans are interested in taking a drug that would help reduce cravings to eat, resulting in weight loss. Half of Americans taking the drugs (49%) say they have reduced their consumption of “snack foods” as a result. Beyond food and restaurant shifts, people will need new clothing, travel demands could shift, and new opportunities may emerge in cosmetics

Meghan Swidler on her view on GLP-1s on metabolic health

Food

Kroger and bitewell partnership marks a significant step forward in food quality innovation and nationwide nutrition security. Hat tip to Tim Schigel and Laura N Brown, MS, RDN, LDN . For more, go to the press release

Our collaboration with bitewell will enhance our OptUP Nutrition Program by incorporating bitewell's FoodHealth Score. This scoring algorithm employs advanced, evidence-based nutrition science to rate products on a scale of 1 to 100, making it easier for customers to understand the complexities of nutrition facts and ingredient lists while shopping. Customers can also explore the nutritional quality of their past purchases by visiting MyNutritionInsights in their Kroger account.

Elly Truesdell breaks down what if US adopted Chile’s front-of-pack labeling in this post

Vegetarians in UK get half of their energy from ultra-processed foods from this study

Samuel Dicken questions if ultra-processed diet can be healthy in this post

Consumer Federation of America issued a report on Ultra-processed Food Why they Matter and What to do About it. Hat tip to Linn Steward RDN

More Healthcare Opinions

Chris Deacon on hospitals soliciting for donations.

Ann Lewandowski on how American consumers of healthcare are not savvy - here.

Consider: if most Americans had money as no object would they buy a no name brand car or would they buy a BMW Lexus, etc? Most healthcare consumers are not savvy. Whether in the purchasing space or in the consumption space. They still equate big, expensive with good.

Keith Passwater interesting note on Value Based Care

Value Based Care (VBC) represents an enormous and growing economic flow. Over 60% of actuaries believe that, by 2030, more than $2 Trillion of US healthcare spending will be under VBC arrangements.

J. Michael Connors MD shares his concerns on Healthcare organizations use RVUs (Relative Value Units) to measure success.

Aetna, a CVS Health Company launches 'no-deductible' SimplePay Health, for self-insured employers - more found here

Lifestyle Medicine commentary by Padmaja Patel, MD, FACLM, DipABLM can be found Medscape here

National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions report - "Rising healthcare costs could trickle down to workers: employer survey"

Additional details from National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions can be found in their Fall 2024 Pulse of the Purchaser Survey Shawn Gremminger

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?In the past, Joe spent seven years at medical device giant Ethicon (division of Johnson & Johnson) with the most recent role as US Regional Manager of Strategic Insights and Pricing.? In his seven years at JNJ, he received recognition for his servant leadership, where he was a stand out in performance by being a top 10% recipient of Encore and Inspire Awards over multiple years.? Dozens and dozens of accolades from contributors to senior leaders for his collaborative work.? Prior to Ethicon, Joe has had a wide variety of experiences in medical claims, banking, publishing, and retail.? He began his career at Schaeffer's Investment Research as a financial analyst, where he was ranked by Bridge Information Systems as one of the top 10 market analysts for three straight years for his commentary and stock picks found in Schaeffer's Daily Bulletin. Joe has been published in the Market Pulse Journal and Chartpoint and his market comments have been printed in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, Dow Jones News Wire, and Reuters. Also, Joe has made appearances on Bloomberg television.