advanced medical technologies

 [Insight:  One of the more fascinating aspects of medical technology development is the penchant in the industry for finding different ways to accomplish traditional tasks in medical and surgical care.  While certainly some technologies can be oversold for their putative clinical benefits --- driving up healthcare costs and giving the industry a bad rap --- some medtech advances indeed provide clinically better outcomes that few can legitimately argue, IMHO, as not being cost effective.  These include major technology paradigm shifts like laparoscopic surgery.  Another area that has shown a progressive set of changes to medical and, especially, surgical care, has been ablation technologies, the use of energy-based and other technologies to accomplish the dissection of tissue, the destruction of cancerous and other lesions and other functional alternation of tissue (e.g., in arrhythmia ablation) that was in most cases previously accomplished by, for the most part, a scalpel only (OK, a little simplified, but you get the idea).  These ablation technologies now represent a pretty strong market or collection of market segments that are changing the way surgeons manipulate tissue.  Below are some highlights of how the market breaks down by different modality.  We also present some of the recent M&A activity in this industry.  For additional details on ablation technologies, see the tag or category of  "ablation" (or any of the separate modalities) in this blog. - Patrick Driscoll, Founder, MedMarket Diligence]

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