Medtech Insight Podcasts

In this week’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb talks about her interview with GE HealthCare’s chief AI officer Parminder Bhatia about his vision for AI in health care and other highlights from HLTH. Natasha Barrow discusses her interview with Owkin on the EU AI Act and highlights Click Therapeutics’ latest clinical results.

This week, HistoSonics announced it will bring its ultrasound system for destroying liver tumors into VA hospitals, Edwards Lifesciences reports encouraging TRISCEND II trial results at TCT, study finds blood test for CRC screening are less cost-effective than alternatives, and more.

In this week’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Ryan Nelson highlights Click Therapeutics’ FDA-cleared digital therapeutics (DTx) for depression and Sinaptica Therapeutics’ personalized neuromodulation for Alzheimer’s patients. Marion Webb discusses her interview with MindMaze’s John Krakauer on their gaming-focused DTx to help people recover from serious brain injuries. Elizabeth Orr introduces new voting members of the new Digital Health Advisory Committee and Natasha Barrow discusses Hello Heart’s new symptom-tracking feature in their heart-focused app.

In this episode, Medtech Insight senior reporter Hannah Daniel speaks to DJ Fang, chief operating officer and co-founder of Pure Global. Pure Global uses AI to help device manufacturers navigate global regulations, and we talk about clinical trials, how countries incentivize medtech innovation, and the Biden Administration’s tariffs on some Chinese-made medical devices.

In this episode, Medtech Insight senior reporter Hannah Daniel speaks to Mark Brown, Global Managing Director of Digital Trust Consulting at the British Standards Institute about digital trust. In a world of cybersecurity breaches and ransomware attacks on hospitals, digital trust between companies and consumers is key, but current siloed operations can hinder that. We talk about the EU’s AI act, the speed of digital transformation, cybersecurity incentives, and how principle-based regulations are better than prescriptive ones.

In this episode, Medtech Insight regulatory reporter Hannah Daniel speaks to industry professionals at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2024 conference about what they enjoy about the annual gathering and what excites them for the future.  

Breathomics, UTI diagnosis and advanced wound healing innovations were among the center stage technologies at BioWales in London 2024.

iRhythm CEO Quentin Blackford returned to Medtech Insight’s Cardio Conversations podcast to talk about the launch of his company’s new Zio monitor patch supported by a sophisticated neural network. He also addressed the company’s plans to improve its position in the mobile cardiac telemetry market, the impact of pulsed field ablation on the cardiac monitoring business, and more.

In this edition of Cardio Conversations, Medtech Insight editor Reed Miller talked to Robert Chisena, the co-founder and CTO of AVS (Amplitude Vascular Systems) where leads research and product development. He talked about his company's novel interventional technology for calcified peripheral arterial disease and how the company came together despite the pandemic.