Medtech Insight’s new series Getting Personal features conversations with new and veteran senior executives about their journeys to corporate leadership, their motivations, passions and the peaks and valleys of running a medtech company. Daniel Hawkins, founder and CEO of Avail Medsystems discussed how his company virtually connects health care professionals into the operating suite and allows for real-time collaboration.

In following his passion to make an impact in clinical outcomes, Todd Brinton has been back-and-forth across the medtech map since leaving university. Now in a senior role at Edwards Lifesciences, he is not letting up on his quest to continuously innovate and make a difference in clinical care.

The US Medicare agency increased payment for peripheral Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) procedures in a final rule. The increase is good news for Shockwave Medical, whose proprietary IVL treatment uses a novel approach to treating calcified arteries.

The company will focus on developing its VenoValve system to treat chronic venous insufficiency and a second product for venous disease.