Vention Medical - Growing To Grow

Vention Medical is a company of international repute and are engaged in providing expertise in design and development, Molding and Assembly and Advanced Components. They have already completed more than 1000 projects successfully in the surgical and other health care devices market. They enable their clients to proceed with their innovations in the field of health efficiently as well as in the cost-effective way. The firm with its most innovative technology, high efficiency as well as experienced manpower and professional approach enables their partners to develop their product and introduce them in the market. They offers a wide range of specialties including design and development, health care device assembly, Medical Balloons, Balloon Catheters, Injection Moldings, Heat Shrink Tubing, Packaging etc. They are fully involved in the designing, engineering and manufacturing of the various medical devices and components. They also develops injection molded products, multi-layer tubing for health care industry, composite tubing, wire coatings and automation equipments for surgical applications.

The ModCath(TM) Online is a new online design tool launched by Vention Medical. This enables the users to design balloon catheter prototypes according to their own specifications. The selection can be made from a complete range of modular features. ModCath is in fact a boon to the R & D process and also it helps to reduce development costs substantially. ModCath enables quick commencement of production. Semi custom and custom balloon catheter programs are offered by them.

Two Key Qualities of Good Leaders

Do you read the comic strip "Dilbert" by Scott Adams? I read it most every day. It tells the story of an engineer named Dilbert and the people with whom he works, including notables such as Wally, Alice and the pointy-haired boss. Mr. Adams daily relates amusing situations of the dysfunctional relations at Dilbert's work site. While the situations are hilarious at times, they reflect the actual work processes at many businesses; many of the story lines, according to Mr. Scott, are taken from real situations at his readers' work sites.

A recent comic tells the story of the pointy-haired boss telling Alice, another engineer, why he cannot give her a raise-she would be making more than he does. Alice asks why that would be a problem. His reply: it would mean that she was smarter than he is. His reply is amusing but absurd. Unfortunately, such attitudes and reasoning are commonly found in businesses, including healthcare. I have seen and experienced such incidents a countless number of times.

Healthcare businesses need much better managers and bosses than the type represented by the pointy-haired boss in order to thrive financially and to provide the best service to their patients. Let me describe and illustrate briefly two habits of effective managers and bosses, whether or not they are physicians or clinical staff. The two are listening and the ability to use authority effectively.

Recently Christie Rampone, the captain of the U. S. women's soccer team which won the gold medal at this past summer's Olympics, described the characteristics of good leadership in an article on the Inc.com website. Her first principle for leaders to follow: Stop talking so much. She went on to say, " A good leader is a good listener. My role is about less talk and more keen observation." I agree with her completely. It is one of the principles that I promote to my clients.

Healthcare Reform: What Will It Mean to You?

Have you been tracking the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) closely? If you haven't been, you should be paying attention because you may be affected. If you have been tracking the changes in our healthcare system, you may have noticed that while many changes have gone through as planned, the administration is running into some delays. Some consumers are already seeing basic services included in their current health care such as free immunizations, wellness check-ups, children up to the age of 26 able to remain on their parents insurance plan, free mammograms and cancer screenings, among others. The next big step in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also called ObamaCare by some, is the requirement that all Americans obtain health insurance coverage.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has given conditional approval to 18 states to run their own Small-Business Health Options Programs (SHOPs) and to another 17 to run their own insurance exchanges for individuals. Unfortunately, while progress has been made, "many activities remain to be completed and some were behind schedule," a report put out by the US Government Accounting Offices says. This next piece of healthcare reform is scheduled to go into effect starting January 2014. Since individuals need to be able to purchase health insurance beginning October 1, 2013, this delay in getting health insurance exchanges up and running could impact those who need to purchase it.