MedTech Intelligence

AdaptHealth, a U.S. provider of home-based medical equipment, is continuing to investigate a material cyberattack that exposed patient information after attackers used a social engineering scheme to compromise a third-party contractor’s account and gain access to the company’s cloud environment.

Medical device maker Zimmer Biomet plans to hire 500 employees over the next three years as it expands its newly opened technology centre in Bengaluru, underscoring India’s growing role as a global hub for healthcare technology and innovation. The U.S.-listed company said the new hires will span software engineering, product design, research and development (R&D), quality, regulatory affairs, finance, and other business functions.

MTI Viewpoints Insights shared by industry relative to healthcare and the advancement of medical technology. Jaimon Jose, senior director of engineering and compliance at CharmHealth, is a software architect and technical leader with more than 18 years of product development experience in the areas of identity and security technologies, distributed systems, cloud security, and data center virtualization.

Post-market surveillance (PMS) systems across the medical device industry have never been more mature. Organizations are capturing complaints, monitoring adverse events, generating Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSURs), and meeting increasingly complex global regulatory requirements.¹⁻⁴ From a compliance standpoint, PMS is working.

Adoption Is Not Governance Artificial intelligence is already inside regulatory affairs functions across the medtech industry. Teams are using it to summarize guidance documents, support first-pass drafting, compare labeling versions, and triage incoming intelligence. In many organizations, this happened quietly as individuals found tools that helped them move faster, and adoption outpaced the policies meant to govern it. Shadow AI is the practical name for what this looks like in the field.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed significant updates to its national coverage determination (NCD) for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), potentially expanding access for Medicare beneficiaries with severe aortic stenosis (AS). The proposal would extend Medicare coverage to include select patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis through coverage with evidence development (CED).

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Indiana Governor Mike Braun announced that Boston Scientific will establish a new global medical device distribution facility in Plainfield, Indiana, creating up to 300 high-wage jobs and investing approximately $138 million in the project. The company plans to construct and equip a 500,000-square-foot facility at Plainfield Innovation Park to support and expand its U.S.-based distribution and logistics operations.

We are seeing it everywhere, Artificial Intelligence in our daily activities – smart thermostats and smart lights in our homes, facial recognition on our phones, robot vacuum cleaners doing our cleaning, navigation and ride-share apps, Movie and music recommendations on entertainment apps, personalized social media feeds. Like every other aspect of LIFE, healthcare & MedTech are rapidly including AI into care technologies, clinical workflows, and administrative efficiencies.