MedTech Roundup

In the first months of the new year, people are often looking for a change. There are three common changes in the minds of many professionals, including lifestyle, working environment and potentially, employment. 

If you are a Registered Nurse (RN) interested in opportunities away from traditional bedside care, Novasyte can offer all of those things. Novasyte partners with medical device companies to assist them with a variety of product commercialization services, including product education. Today, we hire hundreds of RNs as Clinical Nurse Educators. They travel the country and teach their fellow nurses how to safely use new, cutting-edge technologies.

Topics: Outsourcing Support, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, Industry Trends, SMART recall program

Field actions happen; even to the most diligent organizations.

Organizations across the medical device manufacturing industry understand this as a sharp reality. Over the last decade, however, product recalls have substantially increased and are reaching record highs. Over 208 million devices were recalled in the beginning of 2018, more than the total number of recalled devices in all of 2017.

Topics: Outsourcing Support, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, Industry Trends, SMART recall program

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

Have you been considering a new career in 2019? The start of the year is a great time to explore different options as January marks the start of an active recruiting season for many companies. Novasyte is no exception.

As a leader in the med-tech space, Novasyte employs 1,000+ healthcare professionals across the U.S. and continues to recruit for new positions. One of the programs that has seen exponential growth is our Field Technical program.

Topics: Outsourcing Support, Med-Tech Industry Update, Medical Device Industry, Medical Device Field Action, S.M.A.R.T Programs, Industry Trends, 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

For many medtech manufacturers, commercializing products into a new healthcare facility brings a series of opportunities and challenges, including:

• The need to provide proof of product efficacy and cost effectiveness,
• The need to deliver new product into the facility quickly,
• The need to align with facility leadership on the strategic direction to implement, and
• The need to train the facility’s end-users to support adoption.

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

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