CMR Surgical CEO Martin Frost is making way for a new boss to lead the surgical robotics company. Per Vegard Nerseth is set to join CMR Surgical in January 2020 as the company gears up for its most ambitious year yet.

In this week's Medtech Insight podcast, deputy editor Reed Miller discusses clinical trial news from the annual American Heart Association (AHA) meeting, and senior reporter Catherine Longworth highlights goings-on at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference in London.

In an example of how so called "digital therapies" can augment traditional drug treatments, Swedish pharma company Orexo has secured exclusive US rights to an AI-based behavioral therapy for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD).