Every year, a handful of genuinely promising early-detection devices in medtech quietly disappear. Not because the science didn’t work. Because the program didn’t survive long enough to prove that it did. That distinction matters, because it is not how these stories usually get told. When an early-detection platform stalls, the assumption is almost always technical: […]

The Only Metric That Actually Predicts Team Performance You Can’t Mandate High Performance. You Have to Build It. Early in my career, I was asked to run a team performance workshop I did not want to do. My R&D team was missing deadlines. Progress was happening, but communication was not. My executive leader pushed me […]

What recent FDA actions, device recalls, and enterprise breaches are telling medtech executives about the state of product security governance. On June 8, 2026, iRhythm discovered that a threat actor had gained unauthorized access to data maintained on third-party-hosted business applications. The following day, the company received a ransom demand threatening to release stolen proprietary […]

Here’s what to do about it AI in medtech has moved beyond experimentation. Today, it’s embedded across clinical workflows, You built a best-in-class device. Then another. Then a full portfolio. And somewhere along the way, the software platform holding it all together quietly became the most expensive problem on your roadmap that nobody is talking […]