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 [...]
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 [...]
(See September 2008 report #A125, “Ablation Technologies Worldwide Market, 2008-2017,” from MedMarket Diligence, LLC. May be purchased online.)
Energy-based therapies generate sales of $13 billion in the United States alone, with probably another $12 billion in other developed markets worldwide. This represents around 13% of the total medical device market, and it is growing at 11% [...]
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 [...]
From MedMarket Diligence report #S145, “Worldwide Surgical Sealants, Glues and Wound Closure Market, 2007-2011.” See link.
The use of products such as tapes and sutures for wound closure and securement leads to faster wound healing with less risk of contamination by debris and infectious agents, and with improved cosmetic outcomes. Failure to use these products can [...]
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 [...]
We look at medical technologies and consider their potential improving clinical outcomes competitively (including cost). Ultimately, we are interested in gauging the market outlook for industry participants so that we can identify opportunities and challenges. Occasionally, we have to point out challenges that really have less (if any) bearing on the technologies themselves [...]
This is an excerpt from Report #S245, “Wound Management, 2007-2016: Established and Emerging Products, Technologies and Markets in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Rest of World,” published by MedMarket Diligence, LLC (November 2007).
Wound types fall into four general categories — surgical, traumatic, burns, and chronic — yet there is a wide variety of specific types, [...]
The balance of patient caseload distributed among alternative spine surgery technologies will demonstrate marked shifts from 2009 to 2017 as technologies/techniques like kyphoplasty and nucleus replacement gain greater presence at the expense of traditional approaches like spine fusion. This is apparent in the shares of the markets each technology will represent in 2009 versus 2017.
Shares [...]