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Pharma Prof. Dr. István Vályi-Nagy, Director General of the United St. Istvan and St. Laszlo Hospitals, shares his insights on running one of the largest hospitals in Hungary and the challenges of chronic underfunding, while also providing his personal ambitions for the future state of Hungary’s healthcare system. Prior to becoming…

Pharma The Director of the State Institute for Drug Control in the Czech Republic highlights the Czech pharmaceutical industry as emancipated and points out their tremendous contribution to employment, export balance, the economy at large and to the patients. You assumed the position as interim director of the State Institute for…

Pharma The Managing Director of HUMAN BioPlazma, Ákos Tóth, highlights the transformational growth that the business has experienced since becoming a part of Kedrion Biopharma in 2008, while pinpointing the strategic role that the subsidiary now plays in producing and distributing the company’s lifesaving biotherapies both inside and outside of Hungary.…

Pharma The GM of Omega Pharma Czech Republic & Slovakia reveals why the company has to position itself as reliable partner rather than a mere supplier and reviews the 32 percent growth in net sales in 2015, highlighting the significance of market segmentation, re-focusing on core assets, and the role of…

Pharma Following regulatory changes, CSL Behring is now able to offer plasma fractionation and purification services to Italy’s public healthcare sector for the first time. General manager Oliver Schmitt discusses the added value and savings CSL Behring can offer in this service segment and the benefits its newest generation of innovative…

Pharma The Czech Minister of Health reviews his achievements in his first two years as minister and elaborates on the National Strategy “Health 2020” implemented in early 2014. He furthermore comments on the financial situation of the Czech health system and names spending as percentage of GDP in comparison to the OECD…

Pharma E-Pharma Trento is a pharmaceutical company specialized in development and production of niche oral delivery forms, such as soluble, effervescent, chewable and orally-disintegrating. After its foundation in 1993, E-Pharma Trento has become an international reference in these technologies by researching, creating and supplying R&D and industrial solutions to pharmaceutical and health…

Pharma The country president of Novartis Czech Republic explains the strategy that led the affiliate to become the number one pharmaceutical company in the Czech market, highlighting the significance of her team in accomplishing 8.4 percent market share. Furthermore, she shares news of recent significant investments into clinical trials and a…

Pharma Stephane Baudry not only provides insight into his holding company EHDH (European Health Care Distribution Holding), the spectacular growth of affiliate EuroTransPharma and the developments underway for his other subsidiaries Transport Dufour and Ciblex Express, but also shares his views on the goal for the European Association for Logistics and…

Pharma Michaela Hrdlickova of Biogen elaborates on how it is the industry’s responsibility to educate all stakeholders within the Czech Republic in order to embed a health consciousness in every individual and discusses the unique referencing methods applied in the country and their resulting challenges for both industry and patient. When…

Pharma Providing universal health coverage to the nation’s roughly 10 million citizens, Hungary’s National Health Insurance Fund (OEP) has one of the most comprehensive and complex structures in Europe. The organization’s Head of Pricing Support, Dr. Judit Bidló discusses the current mechanisms governing pharmaceutical reimbursements in Hungary, while also identifying the…

Pharma PwC Italy’s Rodrigue G. Schübelin talks maintaining Italy’s impressive growth in pharma production, R&D incentives, public-private collaboration, and PwC’s role within the Italian healthcare ecosystem. Italy’s pharmaceutical production increased by 38 percent from 2009 to 2014; what steps does the industry need to take to keep performing at this level?…