About Us
We coordinate what Minnesota’s MedTech sector can’t easily coordinate itself
Minn MedTech Health was built on a straightforward observation: companies, health systems, regulators, and academic researchers all need each other, but they don’t have a natural way to work together. We provide that structure.
Our Mission
Neutral ground for a complicated industry
Minn MedTech Health connects early-stage device developers, FDA regulatory specialists, fellows in academic research institutions, and health systems — not only through networking and ongoing educational events, but through structured programs that give people reasons to work together. We handle regulatory education, clinical partnership development, workforce programs, and policy coordination, because those are problems the industry runs into repeatedly and can’t solve individually.
Our members range from startups working on their first submission to large OEMs with global commercialization operations. What they share is that the challenges Minn MedTech Health addresses — building physician partnerships, navigating regulatory pathways, finding qualified talent — are hard for any single organization to solve on its own. We work across organizational boundaries so members don’t have to.
Our Values
Regional Collaboration
Policy Coordination
Workforce Development
Regulatory Education
Clinical Translation
Health Equity
More than a decade of regional coordination
Minn MedTech Health is an independent organization providing a coalition of manufacturers, medical centers, and regional economic development organizations. It began as a modest forum and has quickly grown into a coordination body with active programs in regulatory education, clinical partnerships, and workforce development. The industry has changed — submissions are more complex, evidence requirements from payers have increased, and the talent shortage has worsened — and the organization’s programming has kept pace with these shifts.
Member organizations collectively employ a large share of Minnesota’s medtech workforce. That concentration matters: it means decisions made in this network have real consequences for how the industry operates regionally, and it creates accountability to do the work well rather than just convene people in a room.
Pre-competitive by design
Minn MedTech Health is built around a pre-competitive model: competing companies fund and participate in shared infrastructure that benefits the whole sector. The logic is simple. Regulatory science education, partnership development, workforce pipelines, and state-level policy advocacy are problems every company in the industry faces. Solving them once, together, is more efficient than each company solving them independently, badly, at great expense.
That model requires a neutral convener that companies, health systems, payers, and regulators can all trust. Minn MedTech Health has maintained that position by keeping programs tightly focused on genuine industry needs, resisting the impulse to expand into areas where we’d have less to offer, and being honest about what we know and don’t know.