The formation of medical technology companies has proceeded at a steady pace over the past few years. These largely device-intensive companies are pursuing a range of clinical applications that is progressively more diverse, encompassing materials science, application of various hybrid technologies and, ultimately, often dissolving boundaries between devices, diagnostics, biotech, pharma and other traditional product [...]
Another sampling of new technologies in various stages of development at recently founded medical technology startups:
Surgical drain and other technologies
Novel wound healing and drug delivery based on unique hydrogel
Nitric oxide coatings for blood-contacting medical devices
Bioresorbable implants for a range of surgical applications
Device to block transmission of pathogens via intravenous catheters
Self-expanding stent for femoral and popliteal [...]
Technologies for ablation and other energy-based treatments in medical/surgical markets are currently dominated by electrosurgical-type therapies, but a growing array of other modalities are creating new applications or penetrating existing ones.
At right is shown the forecast, by modality type, of ablation and other energy-based therapies through 2017. The most significant growth is expected to [...]
Technologies for the treatment of spinal disc disease and trauma are being driven away from the relatively crude solution of fusing adjacent vertebrae to solutions that aspire to restore the dynamic structure and function of the spine.
Non-fusion products
Arguably one of the strongest underlying trends in the development of technologies for the treatment of degenerative disc [...]
The formation of new companies in any industry can be a true litmus of the overall health of the industry and an indicator of the direction the industry is taking through the relative balance of companies with different areas of focus. We present in a bar graph the number of medtech startup companies categorized by [...]
Below is the coverage in the April 2008 issue of MedMarkets.
Ablation: An Energized Market
Demand for Hip and Knee Implants Expected to Increase
MedMarket Outlook: Beyond Technology Innovation: Current and Future Market Forces and Trends
Early Stage Companies: Evalve, ES Vascular, Cardiorobotics, TriVascular
Early Stage Company Financings: Alure Medical, Arbel Medical, Breathe Technologies, CoAxia, IDev Technologies, IlluminOss [...]
MedMarket Diligence Report #M510, published March 2008.
This report details the complete range of products and technologies in the surgical management of spine disorders, diseases and trauma, from grafts, demineralized bone, fusion, stabilization, disc/nucleus replacement, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, imaging, minimally invasive surgical technologies, energy-based therapies and biologics. The report details current clinical and technology developments in this [...]
We have just updated our “High Growth Medical Technologies” white paper, as we expect to continually do in the immediate future, since the areas with growth keep changing, and new areas keep appearing.
As all white papers should be, it’s free. Here’s the link so you can download it.
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In January 2008, we will be publishing our analysis of the worldwide market for products and technologies in [tag]spine surgery[/tag], an arena that has become a real hotbed of development with the formation of many new companies, the rapid development of new technologies and the resulting escalation of competition worldwide.
The pending report is described in [...]
From the December 2007 edition of MedMarkets
Never before, or so it seems, have there been so many widely different dynamics in medical technology markets that determine whether a company will be successful, or if successful, to what degree. Science, its application in technology, and its commercialization in healthcare has traditionally been driven by a narrow [...]