The medical device sector is a rapidly-evolving landscape with clear trends emerging that will dominate the industry for 2025. Innovations like AI and expanding sectors like 3D printing, remote device monitoring, and device connectivity are all emerging as integral considerations for medical device manufacturers and users alike.
Forward thinking is the only way to effectively compete in the medical device market, and Occam Design combines a driving interest in innovation with ISO 13485:2016 certification, FDA registration, and 30+ years of industry experience to remain a key player in medical device development and manufacturing.
Market Growth and Sector Expansion
The medical device market is growing steadily, owing to a driving desire for healthcare options that are more cost effective, have a greater health impact, and serve growing needs for medical device support.
- The US medical device market is forecast to be $228 billion as of 2025.
- The global surgical equipment market is likely to grow from $18.51 billion in 2024 to 20.25 billion in 2025.
- Diagnostic imaging device market is forecast to grow by 4.45% a year.
- The global market for smart medical devices, both therapeutic and diagnostic, was 90.55 billion in 2024, and is expected to grow 12.84% in 2025.
Reasons behind this growth include:
- An aging population with an increasing demand for supportive medical devices.
- Innovations that open up previously inaccessible markets by filling previously unmet end-user medical needs.
- Improvements in the comfort and usability of devices for existing users.
- Leveraging new technologies provides more, and higher quality, medical data to enhance medical decision-making.
Key Innovations Shaping the Market
Cybersecurity
As medical devices increasingly become part of the “internet of things” their connectivity transmits important and confidential medical data across devices. Ensuring this data remains both secure and consistently available is imperative. Protecting the safety of patients through preemptive cybersecurity measures built in to device design and development is not only important, but a regulatory requirement to ensure a device can go to market.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI expedites processing large amounts of information, helping medical professionals find trends and outliers in patient data with a previously unknown rapidity. Alongside helping patients and care professionals, AI also speeds up automation and process workflows, allowing device developers to create more efficient and proactive devices and equipment.
3D Printing
3D printing is now a massive cost and time saving tool for medical device development. Devices can be fit and then custom printed to an individual, and the rapidity of both prototyping and manufacturing has fast-tracked medical device development, allowing device designers to meet needs more efficiently.
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
When patients’ healthcare data can be monitored both continuously and remotely more rapid healthcare support can be offered when metrics change, particularly for patients with chronic disease or intensive care needs, like cardiac patients. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices also allow healthcare systems to leverage and expand telehealth and virtual care efforts, helping medical care reach more
people in effective and affordable ways.
Medical Trends to Watch
Medical device trends through 2025 embrace technology as a tremendous source of opportunity for reshaping patient care through improvement of patient comfort and outcomes, as well as making healthcare delivery both more straightforward, and more effective.
Trends to watch include:
- Wearables: wearable medical devices (e.g. continuous glucose monitors, heart and blood pressure monitors) provide higher-quality data that is easier to share with medical professionals, and are often more comfortable for patients to use. Harder to manage conditions become more straightforward with responsive wearables.
- Robotics: From larger scale robotics, with disinfecting robots improving cleanliness in healthcare settings to the tiniest nanobots offering the most precise targeted treatments, robotics is a trend with tremendous opportunity for growth.
- Less-invasive surgical procedures: Leveraging medical devices to improve surgical outcomes and reduce the need for extensive recovery protects patients. Enhancing control over surgical tools and increasing precision with medical device innovation is the next wave of surgical medical technology.
Occam Design’s Strategy to Lead in Innovation
Occam Design’s team brings decades of medical device development experience to the table, and one of the greatest lessons in those years in the industry has been the need to remain adaptable. Staying ahead of trends and integrating innovations rapidly to create reliable, market-ready devices is the only way forward in this industry.
Occam pays careful attention to new developments in multiple sectors on a proactive basis, allowing the team to rapidly absorb and deploy technologies and techniques to stay ahead of the curve. Coupling that commitment to innovation with FDA registration and ISO 13485 certification means we have our finger on the pulse of regulatory shifts as well, ensuring devices that integrate new approaches and technologies also remain fully compliant with regulatory requirements.
If you’re looking for forward-thinking experts in ensuring regulatory compliance and market readiness for your medical device design, look no further than Occam Design. Our ISO 13485:2016 certification and FDA registration, alongside 30 years of experience developing medical devices means we have the expertise and experience needed to make your device concept an innovative, effective, and regulatory-compliant reality. Connect with Occam Design today to begin a partnership that can bring your ideas to life.