Jabil Healthcare Unites Several Businesses

Jabil Inc. is consolidating its healthcare businesses under Jabil Healthcare. These include Jabil’s embedded-sensors business, its injection molding business through Nypro, and its orthopedics, spine, trauma, and medical instruments operations acquired from Johnson & Johnson. The company’s strategy “allows us to be unified in our approach to our customers, to understand their needs and roadmap, and to understand how to offer them value,” Steve Borges, CEO and EVP of Jabil Healthcare (pictured above), told MD+DI. One of those needs includes keeping up with today’s trends of home healthcare and the digitalization of data, Borges said. “Patients are taking more control of their health, and they need products that provide feedback to patients, caregivers, and doctors on the efficacy of procedures,” he said. “They need smart devices.” In addition, today’s value-based-care programs require a better understanding of the efficacy of procedures, he added. “This requires some level of technology in products.” There’s also a need to “collect a lot of data to understand a disease state and treatment, and it has to be good data,” Borges added. “The challenge is there hasn’t been a cat...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Contract Manufacturing Source Type: news