5 disruptive factors that will negatively impact the Medical Device industry

Study: Medical device industry facing $34 billion revenue hit (Healthcare Daily)
The confluence of five forces could create a $34 billion hit to the medical device industry's revenues over the next five years.
Until now, the medical device industry has enjoyed stability, strong growth, healthy margins and above average price-to-earnings ratios over the last 20 years. But disruptive changes are causing industry executives to focus on differentiated sources of value, customer productivity and total patient disease management, said Dave Powell, a partner with A.T. Kearney and a co-author of a stu...