Digital Health Roundup: Black Friday Hits – Digital Twins, Biowearables, Robotics, Cardiology

In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb highlights interviews with Abbott’s head of Lingo Biowearables and top executives at Twin Health. Reed Miller provides an update on J&J MedTech’s launch of the Ottava soft-tissue robotic surgery system and Barnaby Pickering talks about his recent interview with Leo Grady, former CEO of Paige AI, to talk about his new start-up Jona.

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