MedTech Costa Rica News
Discover curated MedTech news, conferences, workshops, and regulatory trainings relevant to Costa Rica’s growing ecosystem.
Costa Rica MD Summit 2026
The Costa Rica MD Summit 2026 will bring together the country’s medical device ecosystem on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at the Costa Rica Convention Center. As the third edition of the summit, this event is designed to strengthen business connections, accelerate supplier development, and position Costa Rica as one of the most dynamic medical technology…
Laura López: The Economist Behind Costa Rica’s MedTech Boom
Laura López: The Economist Behind Costa Rica’s MedTech Boom You may know that Costa Rica has become a MedTech powerhouse but do you know that behind all these engineers and managers there is an economist thought leader helping shape the conditions for this economic miracle in the Americas? Laura López, CEO of PROCOMER (Costa Rica’s…
Life Sciences Forum Costa Rica 2026
The Life Sciences Forum 2026, organized by CINDE, will bring together Costa Rica’s life sciences and MedTech ecosystem on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at the Costa Rica Convention Center. Returning for its 5th edition, the forum is positioned as one of the most important life sciences events in Latin America, designed to connect the full…
Costa Rica MD Summit 2025
Costa Rica MD Summit 2025: Where the Future of Medical Devices Comes Together Costa Rica will become a key meeting point for the medical device industry on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, as the Costa Rica MD Summit 2025 brings together manufacturers, suppliers, innovators, and industry leaders at the CIC ANDE in Belén, San José. More…
Welcome to Costa Rica MedTech
Hi, I’m Leo Jiménez. What I do Why I’m sharing this Costa Rica’s MedTech sector is already doing world-class work, and I want to help document where we are today and where we can go next. I’m sharing this page with humility, as a snapshot that will improve over time. What you’ll find here How…
MedTech Articles
Discover curated MedTech articles from our team at Costa Rica MedTech.
Threat Modeling in MedTech: Turning Cybersecurity Regulation into Patient-Safety Evidence
TL;DR Who this guide is for This guide is for MedTech founders, product managers, systems engineers, software leads, cybersecurity engineers, QA/RA professionals, clinical engineering leaders, supplier-quality teams, and project managers. This guide moves from regulatory context to patient-safety impact, then into a practical threat-modeling workflow, a connected infusion pump example, attack modeling, DFD + STRIDE…
Managing Change in Regulated MedTech Software
🧭 TL;DR Who this article is for This article is for MedTech project managers, product managers, software leads, QA/RA, systems engineers, cybersecurity leads, and supplier-quality partners working with regulated software, SaMD and SiMD, connected devices, or hybrid medical-device programs. It is especially useful for teams trying to reconcile two pressures that often feel opposed: How…
Stakeholder Management in MedTech
Stakeholder management in MedTech is not a “soft skill.” It is part of the design-control and risk-control system that determines whether a product can be safely released, adopted, supported, and defended with objective evidence. This article is MedTech-first and experience-based. In regulated medical software, stakeholder management is not just communication. It is how expectations become…
Unpacking the Project Performance Domains in MedTech
Project performance domains are one of those concepts that sit quietly underneath everything in modern project management: they’re not a “method,” but they often determine whether the work is coherent, repeatable, and value-realizing. I’m writing this from the perspective of a program manager in high‑stakes engineering (MedTech and other regulated environments). I started learning with…
Vacuum Science
Vacuum is a process condition created by a system (surfaces + geometry + pumps + plumbing + gauges + sequencing) that you tune to get repeatable film chemistry, plasma behavior, transport, and cleanliness. There is no single spec or a single pump that can get you there. Vacuum in clean manufacturing is mainly about contamination…
From Sand to Silicon: Semiconductor Materials, Purification, Wafers, Films, and Dopants
Semiconductors are one of those fields where materials science and electronics meet in the most practical way: what a material is (and how clean, ordered, and intentionally “imperfect” it can be made) ultimately determines what circuits can do. I’m writing this series as an electronics engineer, and because earlier in my career I had the…
Agile in regulated medical device software: what TIR45:2023 really added
I believe in starting an Agile roadmap from an agnostic Agile perspective. I focus on the outcomes. I focus on flow. I focus on learning. I do this in any industry. I do it even more in safety-critical industries. That is why I paid close attention to the updates in AAMI TIR45:2023. This update matters.…
CPMAI for MedTech: Design Controls for Data and Models
CPMAI for MedTech: Design Controls for Data and Models AI initiatives often fail for reasons that look familiar to any program leader: unclear goals, mis-scoped solutions, hidden dependencies, and weak validation in real-world conditions. CPMAI (Cognitive Project Management for AI) brings discipline to AI delivery by emphasizing two realities: In MedTech and safety‑critical industries, those…
Prioritization tools: Pareto Analysis
Pareto Analysis is a prioritization method based on a simple observation: You don’t use Pareto to ignore the remaining issues, you use it to sequence work so the team earns the biggest satisfaction gains early. 🎯 Quick Takeaway: Pareto Analysis (the 80/20 rule) helps you focus improvement work on the small number of issues that…
Software Engineering in the Age of AI
Software Engineering in the Age of A.I. AI-assisted coding is here, and it’s improving fast, however software engineering still lives or dies by verification and validation discipline. Modern generative AI is fundamentally probabilistic, while many real systems demand behavior we can justify as provable (or at least defensible with strong objective evidence). The path forward…
Auger Electron Spectroscopy: Surface Analysis for MedTech Materials and Manufacturing
Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) is a surface characterization technique used to identify the elemental composition of the outermost few nanometers of a material. For medical device manufacturing, this matters because many product failures, contamination issues, coating problems, corrosion behaviors, and adhesion challenges begin at the surface. In the context of Costa Rica’s growing MedTech ecosystem,…
Agile Progress Reporting Charts
How to read this article 🧭 TL;DR: Agile progress charts are not “status.” They’re a way to make scope volatility, flow constraints, and risk visible early enough to steer. Progress reporting in Agile Progress charts are not decoration. They are decision tools. In high-stakes engineering environments (including regulated work), “status” is cheap but predictability and…