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Linda Bernier

Chief Growth Officer - Over 25 years experience in healthcare technology and business services, including senior executive roles at Fortune 1000 companies leading marketing, business development, customer engagement and product innovation.

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SmartTRAK Expands US and Global Medtech Data Analytics Solutions Portfolio with Key Partnerships

By Linda Bernier on 11/13/24 11:25 AM

SmartTRAK’s suite of solutions for procedure and brand share analytics will provide orthopedics, wound care and neuro therapies companies with deeper market intelligence in one comprehensive platform

IRVINE, Calif.   SmartTRAK, the leading Medtech market and business intelligence solution in Orthopedics, Wound Care, Regenerative Medicine and Neuro Therapies, announces partnerships with STATinMED, LLC and Quomeda Ltd for the development of US and global procedure tools. A third partnership with a leading healthcare insights organization will enable SmartTRAK to offer customers a brand share and price estimation tool. These new tools, combined with SmartTRAK’s highly curated content and analyst-driven insights, reduces the need for expensive, complex data sets and increases the speed for strategic decision-making.

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SmartTRAK Announces Sales Targeting Solution for MedTech Market Powered by Alpha Sophia

By Linda Bernier on 8/13/24 9:45 AM

New partnership helps clients find and engage with physicians to accelerate product adoption and complements SmartTRAK’s expert market insights

SmartTRAK, the leading global Medtech business and market software intelligence solution in the Orthopedics, Wound Care, Regenerative Medicine and Neuro Therapy markets, announces a strategic partnership with Alpha Sophia, a leading Medtech commercial intelligence platform, to help clients quickly identify sales opportunities and position for growth in a highly competitive market.

As the trusted source for market intelligence, SmartTRAK now offers Alpha Sophia’s sales targeting capabilities on its real-time SaaS platform, creating a “one stop shop” for customers in need of actionable sales data plus market insights for strategic decision-making. The Alpha Sophia platform is an intuitive tool that enables commercial leaders to easily identify target physicians by region, site of care, specialization, procedure volume, social media presence and more. Comprehensive profiles of practitioners and organizations put unique insights at the fingertips of marketing and sales teams, enabling them to develop personalized engagement approaches.

Customers who access Alpha Sophia’s sales targeting solution through SmartTRAK’s platform will experience all the benefits of a comprehensive market insights solution, including

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The Power and Promise of AI for Medtech

By Linda Bernier on 7/23/24 9:30 AM

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the medical device industry in myriad ways including enhanced diagnostics and imaging tools, more precise and consistent robotics and personalized medicine for improved patient care, and more. Where AI can also make a significant impact is in big data and predictive analytics by reducing staff administration, increasing efficiency and avoiding drowning in volumes of disparate data. But relying on AI alone for data and analytics has its pitfalls, especially when hallucinations occur resulting in flawed results and inaccurate predictions. That’s why having human experts behind the AI is critically important.

In this episode of DeviceTalks AI Podcast, Joe Mish, VP of Sales for SmartTRAK,  summarizes how SmartTRAK leverages AI tools alongside expert analysts to offer device customers one trusted source for market intelligence.  Joe discusses how Medtech customers rely on the unique, combined power of SmartTRAK’s Insights-as-a-Service platform and market and data experts to more quickly make strategic decisions around new product innovations and market expansions. With over a decade's worth of data and collective intelligence in the system, the predictive capabilities of AI and the power of non-hallucinating human insights, SmartTRAK might just be the “holy grail” solution. Just click the video below to listen in to learn more! 

A link to download the complete interview transcript is provided below.

 

0:00:00 Kayleen Brown: Hi everyone, I’m Kayleen Brown of DeviceTalks. Some exciting news to start. Our first four episodes of AI Meets Life Sci has more than 8500 plays. We’re so grateful that you’re interested in how AI is affecting our industry as much as I am. And as you probably noticed, we took a short break and we did that to speak to our audience in order to better understand how we can evolve that series, we learned two things. One, there’s an appetite for more artificial intelligence focused conversations. And two, we learned that though there’s an appetite for these conversations, there’s a hunger for these conversations to be specific to the medical device industry.

0:00:39 Kayleen Brown: So because of that, we’ve rebranded our series AI Meets Life Sci to DeviceTalks AI. DeviceTalks AI will feature exclusive conversations with the largest medtech OEMs and other industry stakeholders to better understand how they’re using artificial intelligence to reshape the industry. But you can still find us on every major podcast platform. Just search for DeviceTalks and make sure that you’re subscribed to DeviceTalks on YouTube.

0:01:06 Kayleen Brown: Today’s episode is extra special as we premiere under our new name. First, you’ll hear an interview with Joe Mish, vice president of sales at SmartTRAK. Joe reveals how SmartTRAK’s cutting-edge approach to market intelligence combines real-time analysis with the human touch of a world-class team. We will better understand how AI has helped speed up the market analysis process and how these technologies enhance strategic decision-making in market intelligence.

0:01:36 Kayleen Brown: After that is our keynote interview with Dr. Ha Hong, chief artificial intelligence officer at Medtronic Endoscopy. I’ll be joined by my AI Meets Life Sci co-host Brian Buntz, and we’ll discuss how Dr. Hong is integrating AI into Medtronic’s endoscopy unit, the potential impact of AI on healthcare outcomes, the importance of patient-centric AI design, and the promising future of AI in the medical device industry.

0:02:05 Kayleen Brown: As always, I’m so thankful for your continued support and I’m so excited about this new iteration of AI Meets Life Sci. Now, DeviceTalks AI. Again, we’re going to be specifically talking to medtech companies about how they’re integrating artificial intelligence for better health and business outcomes. So, let’s kick off our inaugural episode of DeviceTalks AI with my conversation with Joe Mish, vice president of sales at SmartTRAK.

0:02:36 Kayleen Brown: Joe Mish, vice president of sales for SmartTRAK Business Intelligence welcome to DeviceTalks AI. I’ve been so looking forward to sitting down with you and learning more about how artificial intelligence is integrating into the data world and helping our industry understand how the industry at large can look in the future. So with that, thank you again for joining us. I want to start at a 40,000 foot level, Joe.

0:03:05 Kayleen Brown: So can you tell our audience about SmartTRAK? What do you do and who do you serve?

0:03:11 Joe Mish: Absolutely. So SmartTRAK is a real time software as a service business intelligence platform. We provide rich market-level data, competitive intelligence and strategic insights to the medical device community. Essentially, we partner with medical device companies, OEM manufacturers, even financial service groups like VC and PE groups, as well as consulting organizations that really invest heavily in the medtech sector.

0:03:41 Kayleen Brown: I think your summary was a great high-level summary, but can you walk us through how real-time analysis is being conducted and ...

Click the button below to download the complete transcript of the interview featuring Joe Mish, SmartTRAK Director of Sales.

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Surviving Economic Storms: Boost YOUR Success with Better Market Intelligence Solutions

By Linda Bernier on 5/21/23 10:00 PM

Boost YOUR Success with Better Market Intelligence Solutions

In these uncertain times, the Medtech Industry is facing economic challenges, which have resulted in countless layoffs, early retirements and stressful budget cuts. As a result, many departments are left without proper staffing, creating major gaps in subject matter expertise and strategic insights. But times of pressure demand push-back from those determined to come out stronger on the other side, which is why now, more than ever, is the time to double down on your investments in market intelligence solutions and better technology.

Technology is a critical investment that can help companies reduce costs and increase efficiency. According to a recent survey by Gartner, an astounding 40% of CFOs say they plan to increase their IT budgets, even in times of economic uncertainty. Automation is also seen as a deflationary force that can help companies boost productivity and reduce costs while maintaining strong barriers to entry, what Morgan Stanley analysts call “deflation enablers.”

SmartTRAK’s Insights-as-a-Service solution has the potential to drive significant savings while also providing a competitive edge for your growth strategies. Just look at some of the potential results investments in SmartTRAK can provide companies:

  • 20 to 25% increase the productivity of knowledge workers
  • 25 - 35% reduction in time searching and gathering information with a searchable record of knowledge
  • 3.5 – 6.5 hours of increased value-added time per week

But the proof is in the pudding. With the kinds of challenges that Medtech companies are facing today, SmartTRAK offers necessary solutions to help ease the burden of inflation. The SmartTRAK insights platformcombined with our subject matter experts can work as an extension of your market intelligence team, keeping you in-the-know and more productive than ever as you weather the economic storm.

If your organization is grappling with the kinds of budget challenges we mentioned while striving for double-digit growth, allow SmartTRAK to help. With a simple discovery call, our team can demonstrate the value and positive impacts of your company’s market intelligence spend. Using our SmartTRAK ROI Modeling tool, we can uncover invisible productivity and consolidation opportunities that can result in cost savings, greater efficiency and a positive ROI. All you have to do is click the button below to reach out to schedule. Schedule My ROI

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