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Posted on 12.04.2018
Value-Based Health Care and chronic disease
I would like you to think about the evolution of healthcare in Europe and how it is organised. What are healthcare systems generally good at? Imagine a road accident. Frantic emergency phone calls. Flashing blue lights. Within 8 minutes emergency vehicles arrive. You hit the hospital accident and emergency ward. A crash team is ready. […]
Posted on 01.03.2018
Predicting a patient’s health path and changing their behaviour, through the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
By unleashing the power of machine learning, we can better understand behaviour, empower patients to make smarter decisions – and save billions of euros. Unhealthy lifestyles are driving an explosion in chronic conditions, including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. By choosing to smoke, having an inconsistency in maintaining a healthy diet and opting out of […]
Posted on 28.11.2017
Celebrating 40 years of Spanish MedTech
Fenin, the Spanish medtech federation, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Founded in 1977, the year of Spain’s first democratic elections, the organisation has worked with more than 20 health ministers and seen several landmark developments. These include the establishment of the tax-funded universal National Health System (SNS), growing responsibility for health policy at regional […]
Posted on 26.09.2017
Laboratory Diagnostics: Delivering savings by preventing disease progression – A perspective from Poland
A new report on Laboratory Medicine in Poland highlights the role of laboratory diagnostics in the timely treatment of chronic conditions. Not only can investment in early diagnosis save and improve lives, it can also save money on long-term care. ‘There is not enough data on how health budgets are spent,’ says Jozef Jakubiec, Director […]
Posted on 01.03.2017
Stress-busting app keeps employees healthy – and boosts productivity
Sensors, artificial intelligence and big data are not only changing healthcare, they are transforming the workplace and may even reinvent the insurance sector. Stress takes its toll on all of us. It affects our mental health and is linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and obesity. It also costs employers tens of thousands of euro […]
Posted on 17.06.2016
Finding solutions to heart failure challenges
Question: As an active leader in the heart failure conversation and the instigator of the Heart Failure Aware campaign, could you tell us more on what it’s trying to achieve, target, why is it important, and how you could see it rolled out across Europe? Currently we are facing a number of large unmet challenges […]
Posted on 30.11.2015
How being mobile again can help health systems. Patients have known for a long time. Everybody else will know now.
Representatives of Health Authorities and Payers seem to have mixed feelings about orthopaedic implants. They all know someone in their immediate environment who has had a new knee or a new hip and who is very satisfied with it. They also know that these people have regained their quality of life after a long period […]
Posted on 04.11.2015
Isabel Saraiva, Portuguese, has been affected by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) since 2006
My name is Isabel Saraiva. I’m Portuguese and ex-smoker. I quit smoking in April 2006 when I was diagnosed with COPD, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. COPD is a progressive respiratory disease characterized by the obstruction of lung airflow making breathing difficult. Prevention, which means quitting smoking and access to early diagnostic, is the most important […]
Posted on 07.04.2015
The MedTech Industry and Startups: they NEED each other and should MEET each other
Europe is known for its excellent startup ecosystem. Moreover, the medtech industry in Europe is made up of 95% SMEs. If we want the innovation successes of past and present to continue well into the future, it is critical that the bigger medtech players, and the financial and investment ecosystem keep taking the pulse of European medtech startups.