March 2025 edition: Minimally Invasive Medtech

 

Maximizing opportunities in minimally invasive medtech

When Medtronic Chair and CEO Geoff Martha recently offered an overview of the innovations promising fast growth at the world’s largest medical device manufacturer, a theme quickly became apparent.

That theme was minimally invasive devices and procedures, from the Symplicity Spyral renal denervation catheter pictured on the cover of this issue to Medtronic’s pulsed field ablation devices, catheter-delivered implants and the much anticipated Hugo surgical robotics system.

Minimally invasive medtech generally includes devices for less traumatic procedures, which can reduce patient recovery times and complication rates. But there’s more to it than that, as we explore in interviews with device engineers, executives and experts in this issue of Medical Design & Outsourcing. Some of those philosophical discussions happened during the MDO Min-Vasive Medtech webinar series of live interviews with device engineers that we launched in 2024. That webinar series will return in August 2025 with speakers to be announced soon, but registration is free and open now.

Medtech suppliers, contract developers and manufacturing partners are playing a critical supporting role in bringing minimally invasive medtech to market. This issue features contributions covering design and manufacturing advances for increasingly miniaturized medical devices and components — including high-precision micro 3D printing and heterogenous integration — as well as development advice on continuous integration/continuous deployment for AI-powered medical devices.

And as device developers continue to find new and innovative ways to use nitinol in a variety of minimally invasive applications, this issue of Medical Design & Outsourcing also includes nitinol know-how on processing the metal alloy into wire, tubes and sheets for medical devices.

We also cover nitinol at Johnson & Johnson MedTech, which uses nitinol for contact-force sensing in its cardiac ablation catheters, and offer you a first look at startup Flow Medical’s nitinol-enabled system for pulmonary embolism.

Don’t forget to bookmark medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com for constant coverage of the design, development and manufacturing of minimally invasive technologies, and to sign up for our free news emails, including our Nitinol Pulse and Surgical Robotics newsletters.

As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Medical Design & Outsourcing — and thanks for reading.

– Jim Hammerand, Managing Editor
Medical Design & Outsourcing
jhammerand@wtwhmedia.com