Device Sectors / Cardiovascular - Medical Product Outsourcing

Perspective (Trends at the Top 2017): Findings of the Top 30

Time breeds perspective if you stare at something long enough. I’ve been staring at the medical device industry since 1999. At that time, the first “trend” I observed was the industry reacting to the threat of Y2K. (I’d ventur…

Sean Fenske, Editor 07.26.17

In Pursuit of Device Safety or a Call for Whistleblowers?

Late last year, Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, penned a blog for the FDA Voice (http://bit.ly/mpo031750) regarding the coordination between t…

Sean Fenske, Editor 03.07.17

Cardiovascular | R&D & Design | Testing

Keeping the Innovation Pipeline Flowing

It’s that time of year again—MPO’s annual compilation and review of the medical device industry’s leading companies. As expected, there are the usual mergers, acquisitions, up-sizings and downsizings, legal tussles, management…

Christopher Delporte, Editorial Director, Medical Devices 07.22.14

Cardiovascular | R&D & Design | Testing

Heart of the Matter

Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright said, “The heart is the first feature of working minds.” He was right. A strong figurative heart—strength of conviction and purpose—can lead individuals to many successes in life as it dr…

Christopher Delporte t, Group Editor 04.08.10

Cardiovascular | Materials

Out With the Old

During a recent flight from Washington, D.C., to Detroit, a fellow business traveler noticed me bangingaway on my trusty MacBook and asked what I do for a living. I said I was an editor in the medtech field. All he said was: “You’ve h…

Christopher Delporte , Group Editor 11.12.09

Cardiovascular | Contract Manufacturing

Balancing Risk and Reward

German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once observed: “Knowing is not enough. We must apply.” The devil surely is in applying the details. Few industries realize that as well as medical devices. With safety and effectiveness dependin…

Christopher Delporte, Group Editor 05.19.08

Cardiovascular | Contract Manufacturing

What's in a Name?

Regardless of the industry in which you toil, if you’re passionate about and engaged in what you do, it can be easy to develop tunnel vision. It is possible—even for the most objective of us—to fall into the trap of thinking that ev…

Christopher Delporte, Group Editor 10.15.07

Cardiovascular | Contract Manufacturing | Electronics | R&D & Design

The Promise of a New Year

As each New Year unfolds, it holds the promise of a blank slate, renewal, the possibility of change. It’s a time when we’re eager to find solutions to problems, dispel doubts and anxieties, vow to do something better or reform behavior…

Christopher Delporte , Group Editor 01.22.07