The number of companies with approved products and measurable revenues in the field of cell therapy and tissue engineering has exceeded the expectation of many (though not all) in the industry. Markets such as cell/tissue are often characterized by overestimated evaluations of commercial potential and underestimated consideration of the actual challenges. Indeed many technology challenges [...]
The use of energy-based systems for the routine management of disease and trauma in the orthopedic arena encompasses multiple energy types. The manufacturers PhotoThera, ArthroCare, Bioelectron, Biowave, ConMed, Medical Technologies, Siemens, Smith & Nephew (Oratec), J&J (Mitek), ConMed and Stryker market a variety of energy-based systems for these purposes. These systems offer the following features [...]
In cardiovascular and spine surgery, multi-billion dollar markets were created from entirely new procedures between 1980 and 2000, with subsequent segmentation in later years particularly as new minimally invasive procedures were developed towards the end of the 20th century. In the cardiovascular arena, the development of new procedures for angioplasty and bypasses in the late [...]
Definitions Biomaterial is an abbreviated form of the term biocompatible material, which can be defined as “a synthetic or natural material used to replace part of a living system or to function in intimate contact with living tissue” . Biomaterials are intended to interface with biological systems; they may be viable or non-viable. Artificial hips, [...]
Specific technologies and broad technology platforms have tremendous potential for market growth based on combinations of recent technology advancement, changes in clinical practice, current forces in the market and other criterial. Biotech solutions to traditional medical device technologies. The thrust of medical technology is, and has been for a long time, to make it as effective [...]
The formation of medical technology companies has proceeded at a steady pace over the past few years. Â 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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