APrevent, a laryngeal implant developer from Taiwan, was named the overall winner of the annual MedTech Innovator APAC accelerator award for 2024. Awards managing director Fredrik Nyberg talked to In Vivo about the rising importance of the APAC region’s hub of companies providing innovative medtech.

The companies intend to co-market Siemens Healthineers’ Multitom Rax as part of Medtronic’s AiBLE ecosystem, which combines advanced technologies in navigation, robotics, imaging, data analytics, and AI to enhance the precision and predictability of spine and cranial surgeries.

The global leaders in imaging have set full-year sales growth outlooks of low to mid-single digits, with China market headwinds due to prevail throughout 2024. Pent-up China demand will be the upside from 2025, industry believes.

The E in ESG: SUDs, reuse, disposables, refurbishing, reprocessed devices? Multiple panelists at the 2024 MedTech Forum addressed the role medtech manufacturers should have in the climate change challenge.