Following a week-long distribution outage, Boston Scientific customers are reportedly rescheduling procedures or switching to competitor products.

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        "excerpt": "Yes huge impact and decline to their business portfolio.\n\n How to come back? That’s the million dollar question all those executives will need to answer.\n\n It will only be a matter of time before they run out of in field product. I suspect they’ll ship to bigger accounts first and those in new territories or smaller businesses will dry out first.\n\n A contraction.",
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        "excerpt": "An HBS study is going to be written one day about both Stryker and BSX experiencing a significant attack within the same year and how both companies recovered. I hope they figure it out, for patients sake.",
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        "excerpt": "I think it’ll depend how much it impacts case coverage but if it does, yes potentially impact long-term. I think people with common sense will recognize this could’ve happened to anyone, but if cases get missed/cancelled that could be the “in” for competitors to swoop into loyal accounts and gain business.\n\n From the patient impact side, there would likely be lingering questions if patients are co",
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        "excerpt": "Has there been any reputable ETAs on when they should be back up and running?",
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        "excerpt": "Started shipping yesterday per Med Tech Dive:\n\n https://www.medtechdive.com/news/boston-scientific-begins-to-restore-shipping-after-cyberattack/829694/\n\n Their stock outperformed most device companies today.\n\n I'm curious to see how this all plays out. The attack on Stryker in March or April was just as bad. It didn't seem to affect Stryker long-term at all in the CV/thrombectomy space.\n\n I work f",
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        "excerpt": "Nobody outside knows when the systems come back, so I won't pretend to. What I do know is the buyer-side playbook during a supplier outage. Hospitals and ASCs push substitutions through value analysis approvals. Cases shift to competitor systems. Competitor reps flood the gap. Welcome to spam-a-palozaa!\n\n The longer the outage, the stickier the switch. Every substitution that clears clinical appro",
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