Here are 5 medtech industry trends you need to know

December 20, 2018 By Chris Newmarker

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Whether it’s the slew of mergers and acquisitions or tighter regulation, developments of recent years are having some surprising effects on the medtech industry, according to experts.

Money is tight, the largest medical device companies are merging and it’s hard to see where regulation is going – medtech insiders have heard about such trends for years. But at a hot topics panel sponsored by law firm Greenberg Traurig at DeviceTalks West this month, it became increasingly clear that such developments are producing unexpected effects.

Here are five new medtech industry trends that are changing the game in the industry:

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(DeviceTalks returns June 5–6, 2019 in Boston – now co-located with the Robotics Summit & Expo.)

Chris Newmarker is the executive editor of WTWH Media life science's news websites and publications including MassDevice, Medical Design & Outsourcing and more. A professional journalist of 18 years, he is a veteran of UBM (now Informa) and The Associated Press whose career has taken him from Ohio to Virginia, New Jersey and, most recently, Minnesota. He’s covered a wide variety of subjects, but his focus over the past decade has been business and technology. He holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from Ohio State University. Connect with him on LinkedIn or email at cnewmarker@wtwhmedia.com.