Coloplast’s announcement is the latest large and significant advanced wound care (AWC) industry deal. As the high level details have already been thoroughly disseminated by press releases and news aggregators, our analysis of the Danish multinational’s acquisition of Kerecis will focus on: What makes this deal noteworthy in the context of the current advanced wound … Read More
Today (14 May 2020), Net Health, a leading specialty health software firm with particularly successful market penetration in US wound clinics, announced the acquisition of Tissue Analytics. The entire TA team will remain and join the Net Health organization. This development is significant to the advanced wound care and adjacent industries for many reasons. By … Read More
![Followup Q&A to April 2020 Business of US Wound Care for Executives eLive Event [Video]](http://cdn-5d8acb16f911c90950a62254.closte.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Diligence-Wound-Care-Global-Business-of-US-Wound-Care-Followup-QA-545x394-1.png "Followup Q&A to April 2020 Business of US Wound Care for Executives eLive Event [Video]")
For those of you who joined our recent (April 2020) eLive interactive events on The Business of US Wound Care for Executives (with Healiant Wound Training Solutions), have no fear. Firstly, we have scheduled our upcoming events for May 28th and June 3rd, 2020 respectively. The May 28th session will be more strategic in nature–tailored … Read More
Advanced wound care’s position in the evolving COVID-19 landscape Global economies have been slammed by COVID-19 in the first part of the year. Some biomed sectors, such as PPE, respiratory, and telemed solutions, have seen unprecedented demand for increased production/availability and new innovation alike. On the other hand, orthopedics, plastics, and other service lines with … Read More
Despite the overwhelming majority of R&D, regulatory, sales, marketing, and corporate finance focus in the advanced wound care (AWC) sector being on physical advanced wound care products, many of the greatest opportunities to drive outcomes–and profitability–exist in the realm of wound care service delivery. This concept was further developed by senior management from several of … Read More
The European Wound Management Association (EWMA) conference in Gothenburg, Sweden earlier this month was a great success. We witnessed several important advanced wound care innovations and announcements: From new approaches for addressing nonviable tissue and infection, to CTPs (cellular and tissue-based products) which are financially viable in non-US markets, to sensors and other digital health … Read More
![Consolidation, M&A Integrations as a Competitive Advantage, and Other Advanced Wound Care Industry Insights from 1H 2019 and SAWC Spring [Video]](http://cdn-5d8acb16f911c90950a62254.closte.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SAWC-Spring-2019.jpg "Consolidation, M&A Integrations as a Competitive Advantage, and Other Advanced Wound Care Industry Insights from 1H 2019 and SAWC Spring [Video]")
At the recent Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC Spring 2019), there were several interesting developments and companies to watch (scroll down for a video interview we did with one of them). But without a doubt, the major advanced wound care (AWC) industry theme in the first half of 2019 has been consolidation. Given the … Read More
What happened? Smith & Nephew (NYSE: SNN) will be acquiring Osiris Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OSIR) for $660M. The investment, announced today, potentially repositions Smith & Nephew within the CTP (cellular and tissue-based products) space. If the deal goes through, it will be Smith & Nephew’s most significant M&A deal within that space since the acquisition of … Read More
In many ways, the pace of innovation in advanced wound care can feel slow compared to other areas of medtech. As a result, many from across the spectrum are understandably confused by recent digital wound care news and developments. Relative to the rest of the sector, this segment is evolving at light speed. Many wound … Read More
We’re thrilled to share this important announcement (read the official press release here). But even before getting into the details of the features and capabilities of the Tissue Analytics (TA) platform, it’s important to convey why we decided to stake our reputation on this particular innovative skin and wound care company in the digital health space. … Read More