Bovie Medical Insights

On November 1st The Today Show did a story on OR Fires.

The medical device industry continues to grow as innovations and advances in technology create new and exciting products. With computers becoming more and more integrated into the medical industry, increased access to distant markets has created new opportunities and has expanded to include areas of the world once ignored due to lack of information or poor logistics. The challenge for medical organizations is knowing how to disseminate the information that is available. The Medical Device Industry has several resources that are extremely valuable in assisting healthcare facilities in answering their queries about what products and equipment are available, how they are performing, and what is in development.

HIDA.org: This is the website of the Health Industry Distributors Association, and has a wealth of information; combining up to date news on government affairs, trends and forecasts, industry breaking news, education and training, market research, events and partners. The website is user friendly, making it a great resource for information on the medical industry at large, as well as for news related to medical devices. The homepage features "Daily Clips" which is a running news reel of important current events happening around the world, it also gives dates for upcoming seminars and conferences, and offers downloads of market reports ranging from influenza vaccine information to medical supplier and equipments sales outlooks . The website is laid out so it is easy for non-medical professionals to navigate and understand.

Qmed.com: There is another leading medical device industry resource; they claim to be the world's only 100% qualified medical device supplier directory, search engine, and central industry resource (Qmed.com). For OEM's looking to distribute their product or equipment, Qmed.com works to partner the OEM with qualified suppliers from as early as the design phase up through distribution. This resource works to increase medical supply chain efficiency by providing state of the art SEO  capability, advanced keyword search and highly embedded relevant supplier listings and resources.

Sites such as these are invaluable to medical device companies as a resource of industry critical information. The medical field changes constantly, today's breakthrough is commonly obsolete tomorrow. Using high quality, credible medical industry resources can save a medical supplier from the embarrassment of a costly error.