What is the future of medical devices?

Most discussions focus on hype — AI, robotics, or breakthrough technologies. But real progress in medical devices is shaped by something else entirely: engineering constraints, regulatory pathways, and clinical realities.

In this episode, I break down:

• Why medical device innovation is slower than people expect

• What actually drives adoption in healthcare

• Incremental vs breakthrough technologies

• The role of materials, sterilization, and manufacturability

• Energy-based devices like plasma, RF, and lasers

• The shift toward point-of-care and decentralized systems

• Regulatory and economic constraints that shape design

I spent over a decade as a research professor and now run an R&D company developing plasma technologies for medical and envi ...