Medtech Insight's News We're Watching highlights a few noteworthy industry developments you might have missed: Accenture's new Vision Report addresses the future of "more human" tech in health care; Efemoral secures FDA's breakthrough status for its bioresorbable peripheral stent; Impulse Dynamics secures $135m to support its cardiac contractility modulation; PrecisionLife and Metrodora announced a partnership to address chronic diseases including long COVID; Cardio Diagnostics launches its cardiac epigenetic/genetic tests in a Walmart near Chicago.

With strong government support over the past two decades, the Singaporean life sciences industry has matured. Initially known as a manufacturing hub, Singapore’s innovation ecosystem is now thriving, but the challenge is to cultivate commercialization power.