Lessons learned from the Metal-on-Metal Hip fiasco

Failure to thrive: Lessons learned from medtech innovations that missed the mark (MassDevice)
Some of the medical device industry’s most heralded disruptors wound up being its biggest failures. Here’s what we can learn from their mistakes.
No one in medtech sets out to fail. No one invests in building a device believing that, despite years of research and development, it won’t make the cut.
There are few other fields in which disruptive, innovative technologies can make waves as big as they do in medtech – where outcomes can be life or death.
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