The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference includes presentations from major medtech companies describing their experience in 2021 and expectations for 2022 as they continue to cope with the impact of the Omicron surge. Here are some of the highlights from the presentations on the second day of the meeting.

As Omicron further destabilizes the medtech space, potentially mirroring the spring of 2020, some executives shared with Medtech Insight their views on what will hopefully be a bumper year for the sector.

The pathway is used to clear class I and II products that don’t have a predicate device, including many innovative technologies. The original draft rule came out in 2018.

In this final part of a three-part series on the “Future of Surgery” we highlight perspectives of a highly skilled orthopedic robotic surgeon on where we are today in robotic surgery and where we are going, introduce innovative surgical robotics companies, and discuss medtechs’ rising role in robotic surgery.