Navitor is an upgraded version of Abbott’s Portico TAVR system with a better fabric cuff and large curved aortic “cells” to reduce the risk of injury to the native valve.

In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb provides highlights from the recent CES 2023 conference in Las Vegas. Reed Miller discusses Abbott’s VR partnership with the Blood Centers for America and Barnaby Pickering highlights Bayer’s jump into medtech with its buyout of Blackford Analysis.

In the first episode of Medtech Insight’s new podcast series focused on cardiovascular technology, editor Reed Miller talks to Steven Mickelsen, one of the founders of Farapulse and Field Medical, about pulsed field ablation, an emerging technology that is changing electrophysiology.

Shockwave, which markets lithotripsy technology to treat calcified vascular disease, will pay about $100m upfront and up to $47m more in potential milestones to buy Neovasc, the Vancouver, BC-based developer of the Reducer device to treat angina.

The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference includes presentations from major medtech companies; Some use the conference as a platform for major announcements while some just take the opportunity to explain their 2023 outlook to investors. Here are some of the highlights from the presentations on the third day of the meeting.

The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference includes presentations from major medtech companies; Some use the conference as a platform for major announcements while some just take the opportunity to explain their 2023 outlook to investors. Here are some of the highlights from the presentations on the second day of the meeting.