Exec Chats

Egg Medical is ramping up efforts to expand international sales of its EggNest scatter radiation protection system to shield X-ray procedure room staff without disrupting workflow. Medtech Insight sat down with Bob Wilson, Egg Medical’s CEO, to discuss the various EggNest systems, marketing opportunities and the competitive landscape.

Vektor Medical is ramping up efforts to bring its vMap technology used to identify arrhythmia sources to more US hospitals, start enrollment in a multinational trial, and commercialize in Europe, pending the CE mark. Medtech Insight sat down with CEO Rob Krummen at LSI 2025 to discuss their plans.

Medtech Insight sat down with Arcadia's chief strategy officer Aneesh Chopra to discuss interoperability, industry standards and the future of health care data and AI.

Jerome Trividic, CEO of Swiss company Spineart, believes that by solving pain points felt by orthopedic surgeons performing spinal procedures, it can improve patient outcomes. He thinks the firm’s innovative approach, which focuses on partnership deals as well as developing its own products, will give it a competitive edge in the spinal surgery market.

PharmStars CEO Naomi Fried spoke with Medtech Insight about the Boston-based virtual accelerator, which brings together digital health-focused start-ups with pharmaceutical companies to accelerate deals. Executives from Elemeno Health, Head Diagnostics and JOGO Health who participated in the PharmaU program and final pitching event to PharmStars’ pharma members talked about their experiences, the value proposition and challenges in securing a pharma deal.

Medtech Insight spoke with Meghan Scanlon, president of Boston Scientific’s urology division, about integration plans for the recently acquired Axonics medtech. The purchase adds sacral neuromodulation to Boston Scientific’s portfolio, a global market that research reports valued at $1.6bn in 2023.

Medtech Insight spoke with executives from Spanish medtech firm Time is Brain about their wearable device that monitors stroke victims in real time, potentially saving lives.

Octave Bioscience’s CEO Doug Biehn sat down with Medtech Insight at HLTH to talk about the company’s plans for expanding their multivariate biomarker blood test for MS analysis and development of a diagnostic for Parkinson’s disease.

Medtech Insight talked with GE HealthCare’s chief AI officer Parminder “Parry” Bhatia at HLTH about the firm’s new CareIntellect for Oncology offering to help clinicians make efficient use of multimodal patient data, his vision for projects within AI Innovation Lab, and the future of AI in health care.