MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for May 11, 2017

Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry. Get this in your inbox everyday by subscribing to our newsletters.   5. Propeller Health: From hardware startup to analytics leader Seven years after the digital respiratory startup Propeller Health launched, co-founder and chief technology officer Greg Tracy told a crowd at this year’s Medical Sensors Design Conference that what started as an attempt to build sensors for respiratory devices has slowly evolved into a “hardware-enabled software company.” “We thought that we were going to go build devices and drop this magical things in patients’ lives and they were going to get better,” he said. “And we were wrong about that. It turns out that onboarding people and injecting technology into their life isn’t like throwing pixie dust. It’s actually very hard.” Read more 4. HRS 2017: Two-year registry data on Boston Scientific’s S-ICD Data from a long-term post-approval registry study of the S-ICD subcutaneous pacemaker made by Boston Scientific showed high successful implantation rates and “acceptable” short-term complication rates, researchers said today at the annual Heart Rhythm Society conference in Chicago. The stud...
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