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.
FDA recently reported a startling fact: Most of the pediatric medical devices approved in fiscal 2017 were originally intended for adults.
Health providers, especially in NICUs, are continually altering devices in order to do all they can to save infants and children, but the situation is not ideal, Michael Drues, a regulatory consultant based in Southern California, recently told Medical Design & Outsourcing in its latest podcast. Simply put, children grow; adults don't.
"Clearly there needs to be more incentives. ... But I'd like to put the impetus on industry as well," Drues said.
Drues suspects the trend toward personalized medicine will help. "Personalized medicine applies to people across the board. Whether they're 8 days old, or 8 months old, or 8 years old or 80 years old, it doesn't make any difference."
Listen to Drues as he outlines some strategies to get a pediatric device to market faster.
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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.
