Industry Insights

Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM) continues to focus on producing its line of narrow woven structural tapes and elastics, as well as safety webbing, to protect front-line workers responding to the current global health crisis.

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc.- a leading provider of endoscopic imaging solutions, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted its Breakthrough Device Designation— reserved for medical devices that provide for more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases or conditions— for Fujifilm’s new, in-development, endoscopic light and image processing technology.

Medline has announced that it is on track to complete prime vendor implementations worth over $1 billion in supplies sales at more than 40 health systems since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. This comes on top of $2.5 billion in new partnerships implemented in 2018 and 2019.

CapsoVision, Inc., an innovator in the gastroenterology diagnostics market and manufacturer of the CapsoCam Plus capsule endoscope, has achieved the International Standard Organization (ISO) 27001 security certification.

Entrepix Medical, LLC, a medical technology startup focused on applying advanced nano-polishing technology used in microchip manufacturing to surgical devices, has announced the launch of Planatome Technology.

On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies that are consistent with the directives in President Trump’s Executive Order, entitled “Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors,” that aim to increase choice, lower patients’ out-of-pocket costs, empower patients, and protect taxpayer dollars, a fact sheet reports.