I work in the office of technology development at Sloan Kettering and oversee the medical device portfolio. The trends I see that Investors/companies are looking for: 1. DATA and 2. AI

1. The number one trend I’m seeing is interest on DATA, BIG DATA. I work at an oncology hospital that has tons of medical records and patient data going very far back and we collecting new data daily. I would say in the medical space, DATA is the number 1 thing that companies are looking to license and or have a collaboration to have access to patient data.

2. AI. You have a combination of Big data and AI with companies like IBM with IBM Watson, Apple, Google etc. All of these companies know that the future of healthcare/technologies needs data/big data in order to generate these novel products to solve healthcare needs and revolutionize healthcare.

I agree that 3D printing is also a huge trend. We have multiple 3D printers at Sloan that we use to create prototypes of devices and to create personalized items for patients for particular surgeries, tests, etc. I’ll be interested to see how bio-printing takes off and the regulations that will go along with it. Overall, I think it is very exciting time in the medical device field and I think we will be seeing a lot more BIG DATA collaborations and AI processes and products in the pipeline.