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Posted on 16.12.2015
Imagine a child lost their hearing – because of money
Cochlear implants are just one example of how life-changing innovation can change people’s lives. Their impact is profound. Deaf children who receive one of these devices at a young age can develop normal language skills, allowing them to hit the same development milestones as their peers. But imagine your child’s hearing was saved by a […]
Posted on 04.12.2015
Ten digital health tensions driving innovation in Medtech
Editors’ Note: This blog is part 2 of a series on Digital Health, which aims at presenting the challenges of the new digital revolution and demonstrating how digital health is empowering people to better track, manage, and improve their own health. For part 1 of this series click here. During the European MedTech Forum (2-4 December 2015) follow the […]
Value-Based Procurement: can the industry just “wait and see?”
Editors’ Note: This blog is part 2 of a series on the MEAT value-based procurement project, an initiative that advocates towards a shift from price-based procurement of medical technology towards value-based procurement. It does so by defining a Most Economically Advantageous Tendering (MEAT) framework that includes the value of medical technologies, services and solutions in procurement […]
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 26.11.2015
My 5 predictions for the medical technology industry in 2016
The year 2016 is just around the corner. While there are still weeks before we say goodbye to 2015, I’m going to write a few thoughts on what I think will be the key themes for the medical technology industry next year. I did a similar blogpost last year and I’ve done another round for […]
Posted on 27.10.2015
The need for a comprehensive approach for assessing the value of diagnostic information
Public and private healthcare payers around the world face substantial and evolving challenges in making good decisions on behalf of their ultimate clients—their beneficiaries or subscribers, i.e., people who are at risk of becoming patients. As agents for these potential patients, payers and providers must make prudent clinical and economic recommendations on how to obtain […]
Posted on 17.06.2015
Can we repair Europe’s health care systems through value-based procurement?
Editors’ Note: This blog is part 1 of a series on the MEAT value-based procurement project, an initiative that advocates towards a shift from price-based procurement of medical technology towards value-based procurement. It does so by defining a Most Economically Advantageous Tendering (MEAT) framework that includes the value of medical technologies, services and solutions in procurement […]
Posted on 10.06.2015
How medtech is changing future healthcare
Technological marvels in medical technology are arriving, and they will transform the entire healthcare chain It is not always easy to see a change occurring when it is happening right in front of you, so even those with long years of experience in healthcare might not recognise that the sector is currently undergoing a transformation […]
Posted on 19.05.2015
MedTech Week 2015 – Celebrating the value of medical technology
From 15 to 21 June the European medtech industry will organise its first “European MedTech Week”, a series of activities and events to celebrate medical technology throughout Europe. This week will be an opportunity for every healthcare stakeholder to experience a whole range of medical technologies in the convenience of their own country. The medtech […]