Shelby Akins , however, works in sales for a medical device company, a relatively recession-proof industry.
Our inventory control software product started out as a tool for a medical device company.
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Lingualcare, a medical device company, got its start in 2003 with three guys and a business plan.
He notes that in one case Cognizant built an app for a medical device company that allows doctors to monitor cardiac patients on mobile devices.
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Not quite a decade later Mandell, 48, seems to be thriving on Wall Street, running a publicly traded firm called Sky Capital Holdings, which includes brokerages here and in the U.K. He is also chief executive of another publicly traded firm, Sky Capital Enterprises, which includes a British publisher, a medical device company and a firm that invests in homeland security businesses.
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Lee Lovely, the head of the Latin American division of a medical-device company, says that when it came time to design a lounge for his 13- and 15-year-old sons he took inspiration from his own favorite arcade games and comic books for a superhero-themed space.
HeartWare is a global medical device company dedicated to delivering safe, high-performing and transformative therapies that enable patients with heart failure to get back to life.
Inogen, a mobile medical device company founded by former University of CA, Santa Barbara student Allison Perry who recruited two of her classmates, Brenton Taylor and Byron Myers, to join her team.
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Its purpose is to incubate single-product firms and sell them to a larger medical-device company to get the product through FDA approval.
Now, you may ask yourself, why not just go ahead and register it for clearance as a low-level medical device if the company thinks it can receive clearance?
The CEO of another medical device company whose product is a minimally-invasive surgical tool, had it a bit easier.
Last summer, Adam Smith, CFO of medical-device manufacturing company Vante, lost his job after he uploaded a video on Google Inc.
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If necessary, the company is prepared to register the product as a low-level medical device as it has done in certain other markets outside the U.S. to meet local regulatory requirements.
The comparable legislation that mandates user-fee waivers for small medical device companies, the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA), specifies different criteria: Whether or not a company is small is determined by gross receipts or sales for the company and affiliates.
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