The return of a Republican president to power in last month's US elections showed – for the second time in 2016 – that punditry can be misleading and opinion polls do not always equate with reality. With just a few weeks to President Trump's inauguration, ZS Associates' Brian Chapman gives an early appraisal of how the new administration might view the health care brief in general and the medtech industry in particular.

Chinese hackers recently broke into Community Health Systems’ IT system and stole patient data. Although they did not take device data in this instance, the hackers might have been after that, experts suggest, highlighting vulnerabilities for industry.