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Three Medical Power Trends From MD&M West
Posted March 11, 2026 by Griffin Rzonca
MD&M West 2026, which took place from February 3 to 5 in Anaheim, CA, is among the most important shows in the medical device industry. The event is used to foster relationships, solve problems and view the latest innovations that will soon underpin breakthroughs in the medical device sector.
Throughout the show, three trends emerged that will affect the power requirements of medical devices in the coming years – personalization and data-driven treatment, automation and new treatment technologies. This blog explores those trends and how Advanced Energy plays a role.
One: Personalization and data-driven treatment
One of the most prevalent trends was the increased use of analytics in patient care, with a shift from a one-size-fits-all approach to integrating functions that allow for customized care.
A similar trend has been taking shape across all sectors of medicine. For example, pharmacogenetics – the identification of gene variants that predict adverse reactions to drugs – has been used to improve outcomes in cancer, HIV and cardiovascular treatments for several years. However, the shift to include medical electronic systems is a big leap forward and will involve both custom hardware and treatment methods that can be adapted to match the patient's personal medical data.
We now live in an age where data is easier to collect and analyze. Now that the medical industry is using this to deliver custom solutions with easier integration and stronger results means better outcomes for the patients that need it.
Two: Automation
The second trend includes the buzzword for the show, artificial intelligence (AI), or rather its use in data automation. There was a huge array of systems on display developed for everything from pharmaceutical manufacturing to blood sample testing. AI and automation in patient diagnostics and data compilation were particularly prevalent.
AI and machine learning are already being integrated into imaging diagnostics, but it was impressive to see the array of applications that are being developed for the technology. This trend is set to continue, and as hardware catches up to take advantage, medical and diagnostic systems will be able to deliver results at a greater speed, scale and accuracy than ever before.
Three: New treatment technologies
MD&M West always showcases several treatment technologies, and this year was no different. Of note was pulsed field ablation(PFA), which is promising exciting results in the field of electrosurgery.
PFA is particularly interesting from a power perspective as it involves the delivery of tight controlled pulse rise time, width and frequency and requires the use of advanced switching technologies and precise control algorithms.
Advanced Energy’s role in the ecosystem
Nearly every device, be it the complex medical equipment itself or the industrial machines that made them, requires precisely controlled power delivered to meet stringent medical or industrial standards.
Advanced Energy (AE) is uniquely positioned, with devices tailored to both low-power, highly sensitive equipment where isolation and leakage are critical, to the extreme power demands of industrial automation systems, and everywhere in between.
As medical electronics technology continues to grow in complexity, electromagnetic interference (EMI) challenges also increase. More importantly, special care must be taken with any device that touches a patient, and even more care must be taken for devices in contact with a patient’s bloodstream.
At MD&M West, AE displayed several power supplies that were custom built just for this task, notably:
• NGB250:
A body floating (BF)-rated supply that has been developed as a pre-certified off-the-shelf device for powering devices in contact with a patient’s skin – from incubators to ultrasounds to blood pressure cuffs (among others).
• NCF660:
Certified to be cardiac floating (CF)-rated, meaning it can be used in devices that will contact the bloodstream. The NCF660 is among the highest power CF-rated supplies on the market today yet has a leakage current of less than 10 µA under standard conditions (over 10X better than a typical power supply with leakage current in the hundreds of microamps). These power supplies are applicable to life-saving devices such as electrosurgery equipment, pulsed field ablation applications, dialysis machines, defibrillators, and more.
Figure 1: A view of the NCF660 series power supply.
Throughout the show, three trends emerged that will affect the power requirements of medical devices in the coming years – personalization and data-driven treatment, automation and new treatment technologies. This blog explores those trends and how Advanced Energy plays a role.
One: Personalization and data-driven treatment
One of the most prevalent trends was the increased use of analytics in patient care, with a shift from a one-size-fits-all approach to integrating functions that allow for customized care.
A similar trend has been taking shape across all sectors of medicine. For example, pharmacogenetics – the identification of gene variants that predict adverse reactions to drugs – has been used to improve outcomes in cancer, HIV and cardiovascular treatments for several years. However, the shift to include medical electronic systems is a big leap forward and will involve both custom hardware and treatment methods that can be adapted to match the patient's personal medical data.
We now live in an age where data is easier to collect and analyze. Now that the medical industry is using this to deliver custom solutions with easier integration and stronger results means better outcomes for the patients that need it.
Two: Automation
The second trend includes the buzzword for the show, artificial intelligence (AI), or rather its use in data automation. There was a huge array of systems on display developed for everything from pharmaceutical manufacturing to blood sample testing. AI and automation in patient diagnostics and data compilation were particularly prevalent.
AI and machine learning are already being integrated into imaging diagnostics, but it was impressive to see the array of applications that are being developed for the technology. This trend is set to continue, and as hardware catches up to take advantage, medical and diagnostic systems will be able to deliver results at a greater speed, scale and accuracy than ever before.
Three: New treatment technologies
MD&M West always showcases several treatment technologies, and this year was no different. Of note was pulsed field ablation(PFA), which is promising exciting results in the field of electrosurgery.
PFA is particularly interesting from a power perspective as it involves the delivery of tight controlled pulse rise time, width and frequency and requires the use of advanced switching technologies and precise control algorithms.
Advanced Energy’s role in the ecosystem
Nearly every device, be it the complex medical equipment itself or the industrial machines that made them, requires precisely controlled power delivered to meet stringent medical or industrial standards.
Advanced Energy (AE) is uniquely positioned, with devices tailored to both low-power, highly sensitive equipment where isolation and leakage are critical, to the extreme power demands of industrial automation systems, and everywhere in between.
As medical electronics technology continues to grow in complexity, electromagnetic interference (EMI) challenges also increase. More importantly, special care must be taken with any device that touches a patient, and even more care must be taken for devices in contact with a patient’s bloodstream.
At MD&M West, AE displayed several power supplies that were custom built just for this task, notably:
• NGB250:
A body floating (BF)-rated supply that has been developed as a pre-certified off-the-shelf device for powering devices in contact with a patient’s skin – from incubators to ultrasounds to blood pressure cuffs (among others).
• NCF660:
Certified to be cardiac floating (CF)-rated, meaning it can be used in devices that will contact the bloodstream. The NCF660 is among the highest power CF-rated supplies on the market today yet has a leakage current of less than 10 µA under standard conditions (over 10X better than a typical power supply with leakage current in the hundreds of microamps). These power supplies are applicable to life-saving devices such as electrosurgery equipment, pulsed field ablation applications, dialysis machines, defibrillators, and more.
Figure 1: A view of the NCF660 series power supply.
In addition to Advanced Energy’s power supplies with pre-certified patient protection methods, AE also showcased the NeoPower™ and iHP configurable power solutions.
NeoPower is among the most power dense configurable power supplies on the market, allowing users to configure up to eight different voltage rails to fit their system needs far more closely than a standard off-the-shelf device would allow.
The outputs are BF-rated, with ultra-low ripple modules available for sensitive medical devices. The medical ratings and power density make this a strong fit for any multifunctional medical systems.
iHP, on the other hand, is a high-power solution for large-scale automation systems. It contains robust isolation, and supplies power up to 30 kW, with controls and telemetry data that make it an essential component in any system that needs real-time monitoring and analytics
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MD&M West continues to showcase how medical technology is growing in all directions. Along with the noted trends this year, the overall theme of this conference was collaboration. Suppliers, manufacturers and designers congregated and worked together to discuss systems that push treatments forward.
For more information about Advanced Energy’s power supply capabilities in the medical industry, visit: Medical Power Supplies | Advanced Energy.
NeoPower is among the most power dense configurable power supplies on the market, allowing users to configure up to eight different voltage rails to fit their system needs far more closely than a standard off-the-shelf device would allow.
The outputs are BF-rated, with ultra-low ripple modules available for sensitive medical devices. The medical ratings and power density make this a strong fit for any multifunctional medical systems.
iHP, on the other hand, is a high-power solution for large-scale automation systems. It contains robust isolation, and supplies power up to 30 kW, with controls and telemetry data that make it an essential component in any system that needs real-time monitoring and analytics
.
MD&M West continues to showcase how medical technology is growing in all directions. Along with the noted trends this year, the overall theme of this conference was collaboration. Suppliers, manufacturers and designers congregated and worked together to discuss systems that push treatments forward.
For more information about Advanced Energy’s power supply capabilities in the medical industry, visit: Medical Power Supplies | Advanced Energy.
Griffin Rzonca
Advanced Energy
Griffin Rzonca is a Field Applications Engineer at Advanced Energy, where he serves as the primary technical interface for industrial and medical customers in Southern California. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and was the inaugural member of AE’s FAE rotational program before his deployment to Southern California.
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