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AdvaMed, or the Advanced Medical Technology Association, is an American medical device trade association, based in Washington, D.C. It is the largest medical device association in the world [1] with U.S. and international members who are medical technology companies (medical devices, diagnostic products, and health information systems) that collectively represents 80% of U.S. medical ...
MedTech Europe generally focuses on five policy areas of common interest to its forming associations. The areas are the environment, health care associated infections (HCAI), industry data, health technology assessment (HTA), and its internal five-year-industry strategy aiming to “increase value-based innovations” that allow "healthcare systems to become more sustainable". [6]
On April 2, 1999, these divisions split to become Varian Semiconductor, Varian, Inc., and Varian Medical Systems. [12] [13] In August 2020, Siemens Healthineers announced plans to acquire Varian Medical Systems in an all-stock deal valued at $16.4 billion. [14] [15] The deal was approved and completed on 15 April 2021. [16]
In March 2021, the Medical Technology Group published its Medical Technology Access Accelerator report, [12] reviewing the current NHS infrastructure for introducing medical technologies and setting out eleven recommendations to improve the systematic uptake and spread of innovation. Among its recommendations, the report emphasises the need for ...
Merative L.P., formerly IBM Watson Health, is an American medical technology company that provides products and services that help clients facilitate medical research, clinical research, real world evidence, and healthcare services, through the use of artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud computing, and other advanced information technology.
Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, California, specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It developed the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve made of cow tissue within a balloon-expandable, cobalt-chromium frame, deployed via catheter. [4]
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) is an organization for advancing the development, and safe and effective use of medical technology founded in 1965 by Robert D. Hall Jr. and Robert J. Allen, President and Vice President respectively of Tech/Reps, Inc. (a medical Instrumentation marketing firm in Needham, Massachusetts).
In June 2020, Abiomed appointed Charles A. Simonton, MD, as vice president and Chief Medical Officer. [25] Also in 2020, the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization for the Impella heart pump to stabilize COVID-19 patients following the removal of pulmonary blood clots, as well as the use of the Impella in combination with the Breethe ...