As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop rapidly, the MedTech industry is already seeing many changes and disruptions. SmartTRAK has collected updates and news from the last few days concerning the spread of COVID-19 and how it is affecting the Life Sciences Industry.

COVID-19 AWCS

• Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (AWCS) held an emergency call to discuss hospital wound care clinics being considered non-essential and being asked to close due to COVID-19. Participants included wound clinics, providers and manufactures.
• Medical Directors from Healogics and Restorix, and other wound clinics requested the AWCS publish a one page fact sheet asap stating the importance of wound clinics staying open for challenging pts, as w/o care, the probability of needing emergency care increases significantly.

ACS Issues Decision-Making Guidance on Elective Procedures
With calls to curtail elective surgery, the ACS published guidance on the mgmt of non-emergent operations and suggests surgeons use SLU’s Elective Surgery Acuity Scale to help decide whether procedures should be postponed, performed at an ASC or not postponed.

Tracking COVID-19 via Smart Phones
The US Government is talking w/ tech companies (Facebook, Google, etc) and health experts re how they can use data gleaned from Americans’ phones to map the spread of COVID-19 to predict the next hotspot or decide where to allocate resources. Seattle Times

The Biologics Alliance opened their 1st Summit meeting February 5th in Carlsbad CA with a "Think Tank" session of companies developing new products for the treatment of cartilage-related problems and knee OA. The companies appeared before a panel of judges similar to those on Shark Tank, only these judges had a special expertise in orthopedics/OrthoBiologics. BioMedGPS' CEO Sharon O'Reilly and SmartTRAK Senior Analyst, Kim French were among the panel of judges comprised of industry representatives and analysts/press. Samumed was the first place winner for Lorecivivint (SM04690), Bioventus was 2nd place for PTP-001 and Organogenesis in 3rd w/ ReNu.

We are pleased to announce that Stacy Spirito has joined the team at SmartTRAK as Director of Sales. Stacy has spent 14+ years in the medical device and technology industries, most recently as an Account Executive with Gartner, working with Investors.  Prior to that, Stacy was part of a sales team that launched a disruptive new medical device for breast cancer at Mammotome/Leica Biosystems. 

Meet Stacy Spirito:

1. Stacy, what is your role with SmartTRAK? My role at SmartTRAK is Director of Sales. I will be developing and managing the relationship with our clients and ensuring we are providing value and actionable insights to enable them to deliver on their key initiatives.
   
   

Location: Northeast region of US (NY, NJ, MA, PA)

Full-time Position

Position:

BioMedGPS, a leading strategic advisory and healthcare analytics firm serving the life sciences industry, is seeking a Director of Enterprise Sales with extensive healthcare B2B experience for its SmartTRAK Business Intelligence platform and related products. Applicant must reside in the Northeastern region of the USA for easy access to major accounts.

SmartTRAK is the first business intelligence portal that provides real time data, analytics and curated content by a team of industry experts to help medical device executives make more informed strategic decisions. SmartTRAK is utilized by leading medical device companies within the orthopedic, wound care, regenerative medicine and neuro therapeutic areas. The Director of Sales will be responsible for selling SmartTRAK’s suite of business intelligence solutions to C- suite and other senior level executives, as well as building long term strategic programs and relationships at all levels of the enterprise.

It was a busy year, and SmartTRAK, the leading provider of real-time market data, analysis and advisory services for the orthopedic, wound, regenerative medicine and neuro therapies markets, covered all the key industry happenings in 2019, providing comprehensive industry coverage of the latest trends, news, intel and interviews most important to you.

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Here are SmartTRAK's Top 10 blog posts of the past year with two bonus posts, because at SmartTRAK we always strive to deliver more than what's expected!

SmartTRAK is excited to announce the launch of their new public website,  SmartTRAK.com. The new SmartTRAK.com features improved functionality,  enhanced custom content and a clean uncluttered design. It also features a more intuitive navigation for current customers and new visitors alike.