MedTech Roundup

Novasyte is a Sponsor of this year's Field Service Medical, the Medical Device Service Conference, happening in San Diego, CA from Monday, February 25 through Wednesday, February 27. The conference is for MedTech leaders focused in customer success, service and support.  

A few of our team members will be at the show, including including Hillary Medina, our Vice President of Field and Recall Solutions, Heidi Porter, our Director of Sales - Northwest, and Stephanie Kaderli, our Director of Sales - Southwest. 

Topics: Novasyte News, Medical Device Recall, Medical Device Recall Help, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, SMART recall program, Field Technical

When it comes to electronic medical records, several words beginning with ‘F’ may come to mind.

You may be surprised to learn that, according to an article by Sarah Kliff, faxes still account for as much as 75 percent of all medical communication (Kliff, 2018). This is due to several factors. One of the main drivers is the lack of interoperability between competing electronic medical records systems.

So the fax machine survives, even though it is a dated technology widely despised by stakeholders throughout the healthcare spectrum.

Advantages to the fax machine include that it doesn’t require a login to access nor does it need months of training to operate. However, while these can be seen as benefits for end users, challenges arise when analyzing the security, traceability and confirmation of faxed documents.

Topics: Outsourcing Support, Medical Device Recall, Medical Device Recall Help, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Industry Trends, Industry Advancements, SMART recall program

Novasyte is proud to announce we are a key sponsor at the upcoming 5th Medical Device Postmarket Surveillance Conference taking place this week in Alexandria, Virginia.

The conferences brings together executive leadership from a wide range of medical device categories, including capital equipment, diagnostic tests, active implantable devices as well as surgical tools.

Topics: Novasyte News, Medical Device Recall, Medical Device Recall Help, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, SMART recall program

Hillary Medina, Novasyte's Vice President of Field and Recall Solutions, will be speaking at AdvaMed's Recalls from A-to-Z Conference in Washington D.C.

She will help kick off the conference, held on Tuesday, December 4 and Wednesday, December 5,  by presenting on: "Strategies for Deploying a Field Team and Integrating your Technologies."

Topics: Medical Device Recall, Medical Device Field Action, Industry Trends, SMART recall program

Organizations who have previously struggled with managing a recall internally, or perhaps do not have the time or resources to maintain the consignee data, develop a field strategy or create a centralized database, can trust Novasyte as their recall management partner.

Topics: Medical Device Recall, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, Industry Trends, Industry Advancements, SMART recall program, White Paper

It is easy to fall into the rhythm of receiving multiple spreadsheets from various sources – be it sales, regulatory, marketing or quality – and by having them in one place, feeling like the recall is “under control.” In working with more than half of the largest med-tech companies globally, Novasyte has discovered this is a common theme.

Despite the commonality of this approach, there are inherent associated risks with managing a recall across multiple spreadsheets. Here are the top four.

Topics: Medical Device Recall, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, Industry Trends, Industry Advancements, SMART recall program, White Paper

 

Prior to launching a field team to address the product need, it is critically important to assess the effectiveness of the field strategy as it could result in a significant, potentially unnecessary, budgetary hit.

Topics: Medical Device Recall, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, Industry Trends, Industry Advancements, SMART recall program, White Paper

 

Product recalls happen. Even to the most diligent organizations. 

With the medical device landscape continually evolving, organizations must be agile and ready to respond to a recall at any moment. In looking at the annual number of medical device recalls in the graph below, one thing is known - recalls are not going away.

Topics: Medical Device Recall, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, Industry Trends, Industry Advancements, SMART recall program, White Paper

A global healthcare organization had multiple nationwide recalls with over 1.8 million units in 2,500 facilities. Facing internal bandwidth constraints, Novasyte was hired as the partner-of-choice to manage the recall execution.

Topics: Medical Device Recall, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, Industry Trends, Industry Advancements, SMART recall program, White Paper

We're excited to announce that our Director of Recall Business Development, Hillary Medina, will be speaking at the AdvaMed's Device Complaints, MDRs, and Reports Workshop in Washington, DC on Tuesday, May 23-24, 2017. 

Novasyte partners with med-tech companies, offering outsourced contract clinical, field technical and recall teams and services. Our cloud-based, S.M.A.R.T. Recall Program is an integrated, software and service-based solution to address the increasing challenges med-tech companies face when managing a recall. Our platform tracks every activity in real-time, including mock recalls, plan development, consignee notification, virtual or field-based product remediation, warehousing, and ongoing reporting.

Hillary's presentation, titled ""Communication Strategies for Recalls and Other Field Actions", will address the questions outlined below.

Topics: Novasyte News, Medical Device Recall, Medical Device Recall Help