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The Tenacity That Rewrote the Playbook: Recor Medical’s Triumph in Cardiovascular Innovation What happens when a dedicated, small team of MedTech innovators sets its sights on solving one of the most economically burdensome healthcare challenges globally?  They win a TAG Award! Join us as we celebrate Aqua Medical, winner of the TAG Award for Endoscopic…

The Tenacity That Rewrote the Playbook: Recor Medical’s Triumph in Cardiovascular Innovation The road to true innovation is rarely straight, and no one knows this better than the team at Recor Medical. Their recent win of the TAG Award for Cardiovascular Therapeutic Innovation, recognizing the Paradise Ultrasound Renal Denervation System, isn’t just a testament to…

Codonics Triumphs Again: Celebrating the Simple, Transformative Innovation of the Safe Waste System It’s official: Codonics is joining an elite group as a two-time TAG Award winner!  This year, the excitement centers on the Safe Waste System (SWS), recognized in the Healthcare: Medication Safety & Compliance Innovation category. This innovation is a testament to solving…

There’s a buzz you just can’t manufacture. It’s the live energy of a trade show floor where ideas, ambition, and groundbreaking tech collide. We were absolutely thrilled to jump into that energy and launch something special: a new mini-series from our podcast, TAG’D Beyond the Award, called TAG’D Beyond the Booth. A massive thank you…

We welcome back MedTech investor, founder, and two-time TAG Awards judge, Tor Alden.  Drawing on decades of experience in product development and design, Tor shares his unfiltered perspective on what makes a winning medical technology and what sends a promising startup off track in this episode of TAG’D Beyond the Award. Key Takeaways You’ll Hear:…

It takes more than a great product to win an award… it takes a great story. In this must-listen episode of TAG’D: Beyond the Award, we sit down with Susan Turkell, The Awards Guru, of PAIRELATIONS, a specialist who has helped clients win hundreds of major industry awards. Susan shares the counter-intuitive reasons why even…

In a recent episode of TAG’D: Beyond the Award, returning judge MaryBeth Privitera, PhD, shared her seasoned perspective on what truly makes a MedTech & Life Sciences innovation worthy of recognition. Fresh off her retirement from the University of Cincinnati and embarking on a “design revival,” she focuses her insights on the intersection of human…