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AI and the Design of Medical Devices: It's Getting Better All The Time

AI & machine learning, digital health, SaMD

Orthogonal was excited that Bernhard Kappe, our CEO and Founder, spoke at Virtual Engineering Week on Friday, December 4th, 2020 on the topic of AI & Machine Learning in Medical Devices: It’s Getting Better All the Time. This talk was hosted by Informa and their Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) media property. (Shout outs […]

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What Five Digital Health Experts Learned in 2020

digital health, SaMD

We didn’t predict at the beginning of 2020, but this has been one heck of a year in healthcare and life sciences, especially in terms of digital health, connected care, and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).  We’ve all certainly learned a lot. Curious what others have learned, we’ve been reaching out to a wide […]

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Digital Health in 2020 - Learning from the University of Hard Knocks

digital health

We didn’t predict it on January 1, 2020, but this has been one heck of a year in healthcare and life sciences, especially in terms of digital health and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).  We’ve been reaching out to a wide range of industry leaders, thinkers, and pioneers in the spaces of digital health, […]

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AI and the Design of Medical Devices: Bernhard Kappe's talk at MD&M

AI & machine learning, digital health, SaMD

Bernhard Kappe will be speaking on December 4, 2020 at MD&M’s Virtual Engineering Week about AI and Improving the Design of Medical Devices. We are excited to announce that Bernhard Kappe, Orthogonal’s CEO and founder, will be speaking in December at Virtual Engineering Week hosted by Informa / Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI). Bernhard will […]

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Nanowear's New Clinical Trial Fights COVID-19 with Connected Wearables

digital health

The entire Orthogonal team offers a huge congratulations (and thanks!) to Nanowear and its supporters and investors[1] for launching a groundbreaking COVID-19 research project in partnership with two major health systems in the NY Metro region: Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY is one of the largest independent academic medical centers in the country, training […]

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Behavioral Health and Digital Therapeutics - Three $10M+ Investments

digital health, SaMD

What we can learn from recent Series A investments of $10M+ in digital health startups One of the most interesting areas for digital therapeutics (DTx) is its application to behavioral health (also referred to as mental health). For several decades, many of the most prominent advances in behavioral health therapeutics were pharmacological—think Prozac and Ritalin.  […]

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40 Years of Milestones in Medical Device Software - A History

digital health, SaMD

From Software in a Medical Device (SiMD) to Connected Mobile Medical Devices (CMMD) and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) By Randy Horton, VP of Solutions and Partnerships, Orthogonal Earlier this week, Orthogonal finished compiling a list of funding announcements from January to March of 2020 for companies building Connected Mobile Medical Devices (CMMD) and […]

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Four Success Factors for Accelerating Digital Health Solutions

digital health, FDA, SaMD

Executive Summary This is the fourth and final blog in our late spring/early summer series titled “Sinking, Swimming, or Surfing: COVID-19 and The Great Acceleration of Digital Health.” In this article, we discuss four critical success factors for digital health solutions. Success Factor #1—Don’t get stuck in Flatland: Think in terms of “And,” not “Or.” […]

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Digital Health's Acceleration After COVID-19

digital health

After This Pandemic, What’s in Store for MedTech, Connected Mobile Medical Devices (CMMD) and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)? This article picks up where we left off with our blog post, What This Pandemic Has Changed for Digital Health, MedTech, Connected Mobile Medical Devices (CMMD) and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). At some […]

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COVID-19 and “The Great Acceleration of Digital Health”

digital health

What This Pandemic Has Changed for MedTech, Connected Mobile Medical Devices (CMMD) and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) “Yet even as they walk through the valley of the shadow of death, chief executives and corporate strategists are beginning to look to the post-covid world to come. What they think they see, for good or […]

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Dear MedTech: We expect you to thrive. Cordially, your shareholders

digital health

Executive Summary The people who manage trillions of dollars in stock and bonds are already telling their portfolio companies in every sector what they want to see them doing. For these investment managers, it’s not about playing games with financial instruments or raising earnings-per-share in Q2, Q3 or even Q4 of 2020. It’s about thriving […]

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