MedTech Business Insights and Trends Podcast Series

In this episode, Dr. Vishakha Sharma, Senior Principal Data Scientist at Roche Diagnostics shares her perspectives on the potential of GenAI to improve patient outcomes, enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery, and reduce costs. She also addresses some of the key issues surrounding data interoperability and data integration when dealing with diverse data sources and unstructured data. The discussion brings attention to the need for guiding principles and highlights the ethical frameworks.

Host: Michaela Miller, Practice Lead, U.S. MedTech Technology & Analytics, IQVIA

Featured Speaker: Vishakha Sharma, Ph.D., Senior Principal Data Scientist, Roche Diagnostics

In this episode, Dr. Shelly Nash, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Medical Information Officer at Fresenius Medical Care, discusses the importance of health equity and access to care in driving better health outcomes. Dr. Nash defines the issue of health equity and shares initiatives and opportunities for medical device and diagnostic companies to accelerate progress and address hurdles along the way. Key highlights include the challenges of data integration and interoperability.

Host: Michaela Miller, Practice Lead, U.S. MedTech Technology & Analytics, IQVIA

Featured Speaker: Shelly Nash, DO, FACOOG, Senior Vice President, Global Chief Medical Information Officer, Fresenius Medical Care

In this episode, IQVIA’s Raj Stewart and Michelle Edwards dig deeper into IQVIA’s annual “Ten MedTech Trends to Watch” report, which focuses on the key trends impacting the U.S. MedTech industry today. Learn how health equity, the consolidation of health systems, and advances in diagnostics are impacting the need for evidence generation among MedTech manufacturers and suppliers.

Read Ten MedTech Trends to Watch in 2024 to learn more.

Host: Michaela Miller, Practice Lead, U.S. MedTech Technology & Analytics, IQVIA

Featured Speakers: 

• Michelle Edwards, Practice Lead, U.S. MedTech Real World and Clinical Solutions, IQVIA
• Raj Stewart, Principal, MedTech Market Access, IQVIA

In this episode, Cal St. Denis, Global Director of Sustainability at Johnson & Johnson MedTech, discusses the importance of implementing sustainability agendas that build in sustainability initiatives and considerations at the front end in product design all the way through to packaging. Cal shares part of Johnson & Johnson’s sustainability journey and highlights how MedTech industry customers are evolving and now demanding insights into respective sustainability agendas.

Host: Michaela Miller, Practice Leader, U.S. MedTech Technology & Analytics, IQVIA

Featured Speaker: Cal St. Denis, Global Director, Sustainability, Johnson & Johnson MedTech

In this episode, Catherine Ellis and Raj Stewart of the IQVIA MedTech Commercial Consulting Team discuss a selection of key trends impacting the U.S. MedTech industry today. Take a deeper dive into the drivers of the recent direct-to-consumer advertising growth, hear how market access trends are going to impact the diagnostics market, and learn how labor shortages in healthcare are driving MedTech companies to innovate.

Read Ten MedTech Trends to Watch in 2023 to learn more. 

Host: Michaela Miller, Practice Leader, U.S. MedTech Technology & Analytics, IQVIA

Featured Speakers:
Catherine Ellis, VP, Practice Lead, U.S. MedTech Consulting, IQVIA
Raj Stewart, Principal, MedTech Market Access, IQVIA

In this episode, Peter Bennett, Senior VP of Global Planning at Cardinal Health, discusses key components required to build a supply chain resiliency framework, the need for transparency and collaboration between MedTech product suppliers and distributors, the role of enhanced scorecards, and new approaches to demand planning/forecasting during times of uncertainty.

Host: Michaela Miller, Practice Leader, U.S. MedTech Technology & Analytics, IQVIA

Featured Speaker: Peter Bennett, CPIM, Senior VP of Global Planning, Cardinal Health

In this episode, Lena Chaihorsky, Co-Founder and VP of Payer Innovation at Alva10, shares insights on how to best engage with payers to secure value-based pricing for diagnostic tests and highlights areas of opportunities to increase success in a challenging reimbursement environment. The podcast references this article from The Journal of Precision Medicine. 

Featured Speakers:
Lena Chaihorsky, Co-Founder and VP of Payer Innovation, Alva10

Michaela Miller, Practice Leader, U.S. MedTech Technology & Analytics, IQVIA

In this episode, Dr. Shannon Haymond, President of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), discusses the highlights from the AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo held in Chicago, IL. 

Featured Speakers:
Shannon Haymond, PhD, DABCC FAACC, President, American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), Laboratory Director at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Associate Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine 

Michaela Miller, Practice Leader, U.S. MedTech Technology & Analytics, IQVIA

In this episode, we discuss digital twin technology and the value of computational modeling in healthcare with Dr. Steve Levine, Sr. Director of Virtual Human Modeling at Dassault Systèmes, and Founder of The Living Heart Project.

In this episode, Navin Dewagan, President of Digital Health Solutions, and Michaela Miller, Practice Lead, Technology & Analytics at IQVIA discuss the importance of cybersecurity in the medical device space. Learn about the latest FDA guidance and how to incorporate cybersecurity into medical device management and product development strategies.