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Medical device industry

Here are some external resources providing insight into our medical device industry.

• MEDICAL MARKETING  (2)
• MEDICAL DEVICE COMPANIES  (5)
• MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN  (4)
• MEDICAL DEVICE REGULATION)  (4)

Reid Product Development specializes in durable medical equipment, clinical laboratory instrumentation, and disposable medical devices.

MEDICAL MARKETING

"2010 California Biomedical Industry Highlights" (courtesy of California Healthcare Institute)
http://www.chi.org/industry/data.aspx

Summaries of life science market research reports (including Medical Devices)
http://kaloramainformation.com/

MEDICAL DEVICE COMPANIES

Southern California Biomedical Council (regional trade association)
http://www.socalbio.org/

Minnesota's virtual biomedical and bioscience community
http://www.mbbnet.umn.edu/

Big list of company Web sites (medical equipment manufacturers)
http://mtdesk.com/tiki-index.php?page=Medical+equipment+manufacturers&structure=MT+Reference+Style+Guide

California Healthcare Institute (has an extensive on-line "Industry Directory" of young companies)
http://www.chi.org/

Medical device industry organizations (courtesy of Medical Device Manufacturers Association)
http://dev.medicaldevices.org/resources/organizations/

MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN

Medical Device Industry Supplier Directory (suppliers to OEM's)
http://www.qmed.com/suppliers/

PubMed (National Library of Medicine's public search service)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed

Med-Tech Center (a monthly Wired News collection)
http://www.wired.com/medtech/

Medical Encyclopedia (with photographs, illustrations, and articles)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

MEDICAL DEVICE REGULATION

FDA's self-service medical device  ...regulation primer
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/default.htm

Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed, formerly HIMA) (trade group reports on regulatory developments affecting the medical device industry)
http://www.advamed.org/MemberPortal/Issues/FDA/

European CE (Conformité Européne) Mark (what the CE Mark is, how to use it, the directives, contacts, etc.)
http://thequalityportal.com/q_cemark.htm

Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices (Medical Device Directive)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31993L0042:EN:HTML