Marion Webb
Managing Editor
Marion Webb has been writing about medtech since 2017, specializing in covering buzzy segments such as robotic surgery, digital therapeutics and femtech with in-depth features and interviews with leading experts. Her role includes reporting live from industry events, moderating panel discussions and podcasts, tweeting breaking news and engaging KOLs to provide high-quality, business-critical content for Medtech Insight. Marion has been writing about health care issues for more than two decades. She was a long-time biotech reporter at the San Diego Business Journal, worked at Bloomberg News, and contributed to the Los Angeles County Medical Association’s Physician Magazine. Marion was born and raised in Germany, is fluent in German and conversational in Spanish. Off the job, she’s a competitive runner, avid cyclist and swimmer, and enjoys spending time with her domestic partner and her German Shorthair Pointer mix Cora.
Latest From Marion Webb
Healthtech Leaders Discuss Impact (And Risks) Of Generative AI and AI In Health Care
AI and generative AI ruled much of the discussion at HLTH Europe 2024. A panel of health care leaders from Microsoft, Philips, insitro and Johnson & Johnson discussed how these new technologies are already transforming health care and pointed to risks and challenges.
AI In Health Care: Speakers At HLTH Europe Conference Discuss Promise And Pitfalls
AI is all the rage these days, so it comes as no surprise that the topic of AI technologies ranked high during the panel discussions at the HLTH Europe event, held from 17-20 June in Amsterdam.
‘Is This Doomsday Concern, Or Is It Reality?’ Verily CMO On AI’s Future, Lightpath Metabolic, More
Andrew Trister, Verily’s chief medical and scientific officer, discusses Verily’s newly launched Lightpath Metabolic solution, featuring GLP-1 prescription, AI and strengthened clinical support. Plus, the Google health tech spinout's plans for the Study Watch, the Alzheimer’s research landscape, and AI development and regulation in a new era of uncertainty.
‘Is This Doomsday Concern, Or Is It Reality?’ Verily CMO On AI’s Future, Lightpath Metabolic, More
Andrew Trister, Verily’s chief medical and scientific officer, spoke with Medtech Insight at the HLTH Europe conference about Verily’s newly launched Lightpath Metabolic solution, featuring GLP-1 prescription, AI and strengthened clinical support. Trister also talked about plans for the Study Watch and offered views on the Alzheimer’s research landscape and AI development and regulation in a new era of uncertainty.
News We’re Watching: DMCA Judicial Review Upheld; Abbott’s Rio CGM Available OTC; J&J’s Velys Wins FDA UKA Expansion
This week, AdvaMed and MITA win appeal to prevent repair companies from hacking medical devices, the FDA cleared Abbott’s Libre Rio CGM for OTC sales, J&J MedTech wins expanded clearance for Velys knee medical robot, the FDA updates its AI program, Canary Speech secures $13m in series A funding and Xeltis won FDA approval for an IDE submission to begin enrolling patients for a pivotal study for aXess.
ADDF Leaders Discuss Future Strategies In Alzheimer’s Research And Crucial Role Of Diagnostic Markers
Medtech Insight talked to two leaders at the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation about current therapies and the role of biomarkers and digital tools to build on recent advancements in the space and accelerate progress to identify the disease early and slow cognitive decline.