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14 November 2012 @ 09:58
MedTech Beware: My Next Blood Glucose Monitor will be an iPhone
I was diagnosed with Diabetes Type I in December 1997 at the age of 19. I had just graduated from high school, moved to the city, started university and was [...] -
12 September 2012 @ 14:22
MedTech SMEs: it’s your time to shine
You’ve heard me proclaim the importance of MedTech SMEs before on this platform and I reckon you’ll hear me again. You’ve heard me tell you that SMEs are the backbone [...] -
10 April 2012 @ 14:19
Let’s flip the European innovation model on its head
Innovation is synonymous with progress. Embracing innovation means embracing the need to improve the sustainability and efficiency of healthcare systems by encouraging new business models, unlocking new market opportunities and [...] -
07 February 2012 @ 13:59
Improving life, being cost-efficient and contributing to the EU’s economy - Rewarding Europe’s most innovative medtech companies
When UBM Canon decided to launch the MEDTEC EMDT Innovation Awards, the PIP implant affair was not front-page news. The organisers merely thought that the contributions made by Europe’s medical [...] -
12 October 2011 @ 14:00
Safeguarding Europe’s healthcare for the future together
My wife and I are part of the problem. Last weekend we ran respectable 10 kilometre times although we are both in the latter half of our fifties and we [...] -
04 October 2011 @ 10:53
Procurement – Kill or Cure
Innovation delivers better quality at lower total cost in all walks of life. Many of the things that are freely available today and widely used were considered unaffordable luxuries for [...] -
16 September 2011 @ 14:32
Driving innovation in European healthcare
My pulse is already racing at the prospect of this year’s MedTech Forum. The sequence of events following the 2008-2009 banking crisis has played out rather predictably with a broader [...] -
06 September 2011 @ 10:54
Medtech industry must change its way of doing business to remain successful in the EU
A current EU Medtech Market Snapshot Europe is an important and continuously growing market for medical technology products. Driven by budgetary pressure on the payer and provider levels as well as [...]