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Supply chain giant Medline Industries may be in the early stages of going public at a $50 billion valuation, which would likely place it among the biggest IPOs of 2025.

Are you following the medical device #righttorepair dispute in Washington? Access to service manuals has taken center stage. 📚 🔒 Here's some context: The Library of Congress declared manuals exempt from copyright protection under the DMCA. Groups representing OEM interests responded with a lawsuit arguing the decision was unlawful, but failed to convince the court. Then, in appeals court, the ruling was reversed and is currently winding through legal channels. Meanwhile, the FDA has weighed in with a letter stating it supports the exemption as it pertains to device "repair" (but not "device modification"). ISOs and HTMs say they can't do their jobs safely when OEMs withhold service information. OEMs say some service information contains IP / trade secrets and cannot be shared freely. For those of you invested in this argument, is there a common path forward that benefits everyone, and puts patient safety first? Why or why not?

Thanks to a $1 billion donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Johns Hopkins will join a growing list of medical schools that offer free tuition to their students, including Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, and Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.

Philips is laying off 300 Respironics employees and relocating another 500 as it leaves its building in Pittsburgh's Bakery Square business center in Q4 of this year.

Last summer, GE HealthCare launched a program giving select independent service organizations (ISOs) insider access to its equipment servicing resources. The initiative, called Unite Channel Partner Service Solutions, opens up GE HealthCare parts, training, and technical service tools to qualified ISOs who are accepted into the program. Earlier this year, initial partnerships were announced with TTG Imaging Solutions and Sound Technologies Inc.

Image-Guided Therapies (IGT), currently a $1.6 billion subsegment of GE HealthCare's Imaging unit, will be integrated with the company's Ultrasound segment in Q3 2024. The new combined segment is expected to generate over $5 billion in annual revenue, (while Imaging will remain GE's biggest segment with annual revenue exceeding $8.9 billion).

New findings suggest the gender pay gap persists among physicians. Although it decreased slightly (to 23% in 2023 from 26% in 2022), female physicians still earn nearly $102,000 less than their male counterparts on average -- even when controlling for specialty, location, and years of experience. While almost 75% of female physicians surveyed believe there is a gender pay gap, fewer than 30% of male physicians do.

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We've been watching Microsoft put its heft behind digital pathology innovation for years now. With GigaPath, a collaboration with Providence Health System and the University of Washington, the tech giant is getting results. The model was trained on over a billion pathology image tiles from 170,000 slides and is showing promise in cancer classification and pathomics tasks.