Bill Betten has developed medical devices for decades, but he gained a deeper understanding after hearing a doctor speak the words "brain" and "tumor."
"It's a little different when it's going to be done to you," Betten recalled today during Medical Design & Outsourcing's latest podcast. (Hear more from Betten as editor Chris Newmarker interviews him at DeviceTalks Minnesota, Sept. 9–10 in Minneapolis. Go to minnesota.devicetalks.com and use the code “25OFF” to save 25% on the cost of registration.)
Betten's tumor, fortunately, was a benign meningioma, and he's presently four and a half months into a successful recovery from surgery. Now that he's past the health emergency, there are insights about medical devices that he once knew that he now feels to his core.
Hear more of Betten's insights in MDO's latest podcast, and find out more next week at DeviceTalks Minnesota.
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Bill Betten has developed medical devices for decades, but he gained a deeper understanding after hearing a doctor speak the words "brain" and "tumor."
"It's a little different when it's going to be done to you," Betten recalled today during Medical Design & Outsourcing's latest podcast. (Hear more from Betten as editor Chris Newmarker interviews him at DeviceTalks Minnesota, Sept. 9–10 in Minneapolis. Go to minnesota.devicetalks.com and use the code “25OFF” to save 25% on the cost of registration.)
Betten's tumor, fortunately, was a benign meningioma, and he's presently four and a half months into a successful recovery from surgery. Now that he's past the health emergency, there are insights about medical devices that he once knew that he now feels to his core.
Hear more of Betten's insights in MDO's latest podcast, and find out more next week at DeviceTalks Minnesota.
Medical device industry regulation is changing: What you need to know
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6 years ago
Medical device industry regulation is changing: What you need to know
The medical device industry has been taking a lot of heat lately when it comes to patient safety.
There's the recent International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' "Implant Files" report, as well as the documentary "Bleeding Edge" on Netflix. Both paint a picture of lax medical device regulation resulting in patients exposed to poorly tested implants.
Veteran regulatory consultant Michael Drues thinks the problems outlined in the reports echo concerns going all the way back to when the FDA started regulating medical devices in 1976.
They raise similar questions, too. "What do we do to prevent them? How do we prevent more from happening?" Drues said during his newest podcast with Medical Design & Outsourcing.
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Bill Betten has developed medical devices for decades, but he gained a deeper understanding after hearing a doctor speak the words "brain" and "tumor."
"It's a little different when it's going to be done to you," Betten recalled today during Medical Design & Outsourcing's latest podcast. (Hear more from Betten as editor Chris Newmarker interviews him at DeviceTalks Minnesota, Sept. 9–10 in Minneapolis. Go to minnesota.devicetalks.com and use the code “25OFF” to save 25% on the cost of registration.)
Betten's tumor, fortunately, was a benign meningioma, and he's presently four and a half months into a successful recovery from surgery. Now that he's past the health emergency, there are insights about medical devices that he once knew that he now feels to his core.
Hear more of Betten's insights in MDO's latest podcast, and find out more next week at DeviceTalks Minnesota.
