On this week’s podcast: One of the more interesting and important trends in medtech in recent years is the emergence of robotic assisted surgery. But as RAS procedures increase, so do the chances of something going wrong. And when it does, who’s to blame? The robot or the surgeon?

In this week's podcast Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb gives a summary of this year’s American Academy Of Orthopedic Surgeons annual meeting, where she discusses new products from a range of companies, and interesting meetings with executives. UK-based reporter Barnaby Pickering sheds light on Owlstone Medical’s new diagnostic method, and managing editor Reed Miller highlights a story about the troubled Stereotaxis.

In this week’s podcast, Marion Webb discusses the future of robotic surgery and Barnaby Pickering breaks down the trauma fixation device market.

On this week’s podcast we discuss the US agency’s final regulation on the intended use of products, which device makers must follow beginning on 1 September.

In this roundup feature focusing on the developments in digital health, we highlight the key news and announcements from July.

In this week’s podcast, Medtech Insight editor Reed Miller provides an overview of Abbott’s Amplatzer Amulet, which was approved by the US FDA for preventing thrombus embolization in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Managing editor Marion Webb discusses Zimmer Biomet’s FDA clearance of its Rosa robotic surgery platform for total hip replacement and the intensifying competition in the rising surgical robotics market.

In this week’s podcast we take a look at the concerns a US FDA advisory panel recently expressed about Keystone Heart’s TriGuard 3, then discuss some expert comments on the FDA’s hotly anticipated Quality System Regulation rewrite.

In this edition of Device Week, Medtech Insight’s Barnaby Pickering discusses a market intelligence report about robotically assisted surgery. Reed Miller talks about exciting financing deals in the medtech space, paying focus to a company looking to image damage to the heart in order to spot potential heart attacks before they happen.