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Medtronic plans image campaign: Medtronic plans image campaignToo many lawyers...People think they are entitled to live forever, and a pain-free life at that. Medical professionals and affiliated industries are far too often demonized for their hard work, which despite best efforts cannot yield the fountain of youth. Sorry, but this just has...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Medtronic Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-02-08
Medtronic plans image campaign: Have medical devices become like the oil industry or the payday lenders? Do they need an image campaign to stay afloat against the incoming political fire? One might think so from reading this from Medtronic, the Minneapolis-based company best known for its pacemakers. ...; Tags: Medtronic Inc., Idea, Medical Device, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-08
Medtronic, Inc. Identifies Key Sales Priorities and Drives Executive Alignment: Medtronic, Inc. wanted to increase sales productivity and effectiveness across company's seven principal United States business divisions and provide simplified sales processes and support systems to allow Medtronic to operate as "One company" and leverage best practices. The challenge was to help build management consensus on key sales priorities and...; Tags: Medtronic Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales; Case studies 2008-02-01
Today's Debate: Is Medtronic recall good enough?: Today's Debate: Is Medtronic recall good enough?reality show &/or 12 hr.,5 part maj. motion pic. much better!I didn't see this tv show which you reference as a basis for speculation about this Medtronic recall situation. However, from the few words with which you provide the substantive details of its synopsis,...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Gilligan, Medtronic Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-10-18
Today's Debate: Is Medtronic recall good enough?: Shares of Medtronic fell today after it announced it was recalling its Sprint Fidelis defibrillation leads from the market. The FDA was quick to note that the recall does not mean currently-implanted leads should be taken out of patients' pacemakers. The company said it had found "just"...; Tags: Medtronic Inc., Lead, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-15

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Time to overhaul grandfather's FDA approval process?: In February the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Riegel vs. Medtronic, that the FDA's authority to approve medical devices means states, and their courts, have no recourse when something goes wrong. At a stroke this pre-emption ruling eliminated medical device product liability. Once the FDA approves a...; Tags: FDA, Medical Device, Recourse, Federal Government, Healthcare, Government, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-06-05
How dangerous is the pacemaker hack?: Not very. Despite the snarky headlines, you're not going to be able to create a zombie army with this hack. As our own Chris Soghoian notes, many newer pacemakers give off signals which can be read up to 5 meters away. That's a Bluetooth distance,...; Tags: Team, Wireless Internet Connection, Attack, Team Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-14
Medical lawsuits may soon be a thing of the past: Whenever I discuss rising medical costs here, at least one commenter often several will chime in and blame the lawyers. If we just didn't have all those nasty lawsuits... Well you may get your wish. In a case called Riegel vs. Medtronic,...; Tags: Wyeth, Lawsuit, FDA, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-09
Microsoft HealthVault is nothing like Google Health: Microsoft HealthVault is a platform for sharing medical data. Google Health could, if it chose, become a HealthVault application. Microsoft might even pay to help make that happen, th company said at HIMSS. (Click here for the full drawing at right.) Grad Conn, senior...; Tags: Google Inc., Hospital, SDK, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft HealthVault, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Health care at the money dance: Today starts a week-long money dance for health care companies as Thomas Weisel and Bear Stearns hold their annual health care conferences.Weisel starts things off today in Boston with over 150 companies presenting. Most are small and private, in keeping with the fact this is a venture capital conference.William Hawkins,...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, health care, Bear Stearns Co.; Blog posts 2007-09-05
Today's Debate: Is medical technology recession proof?: During the recent market slide, which ended today after the government the interest rate it charges banks, analysts had one good idea.Medical technology stocks.Absolutely recession proof, they said. The health care equipment index, which includes Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Hospira, Zimmer Holdings and Becton Dickinson, is the place to be.Is it?...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial services, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-08-17
Today's Debate: We're all just electrical impulse: Yesterday's big story, the lead on the NBC Nightly News, was of course the use of a "brain pacemaker" to bring people out of deep coma.Brian Williams expressed great amazement at this feat, called Deep Brain Stimulation, noting that hundreds of thousands may be "awakened" by it.DBS is already approved as...; Tags: Medical Equipment, Hospital Equipment, General, Ethics, Curioisities; Blog posts 2007-08-02