By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. As I have noted in my blogs and publications on Medtech Intelligence, future medtech growth will be the highest in Asia for the foreseeable future. There... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. Returning from a recent trip to China, I cannot overstate Chinese medtech companies’ desire to overtake the Western medical device business. Ten years ago, China made... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. From 1970 to 2000, the United States, Europe and, to an extent, Japan dominated the medtech research and development (R&D) world. During this time period, the... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. In late 2014, China announced new medical device regulations. One of the most important new regulations stated that all Class II and Class III devices will... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This article was also published on MedTech Intelligence. Tissue banks are facilities where the tissues of deceased donors are stored together and securely processed. When these tissues are given to a patient in need... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. There are many challenges to succeeding in China’s medical device market. Let’s first talk about the roadblocks to success. One barrier is the difficulty of... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. As medtech companies move into the Asian markets, they will find that the Chinese medical device registration process can be very difficult. Today, it is... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. Several years ago, a device company in Connecticut contacted me and requested that I visit their offices to discuss an urgent issue they were having... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. As a consultant, I often have interesting discussions with potential medtech clients. For example, a company with a relatively new medical technology recently asked if... Read More
By Ames Gross, President and Founder of Pacific Bridge Medical This blog post was also published on MedTech Intelligence. International medical device companies are increasingly required to conduct local clinical trials for medical device approval in Asia. However, finding, qualifying, and selecting the right... Read More