Tagged with HE

Denmark GN Hearing CEO Gitte Aabo highlights the significant unmet needs of hearing impairment patients, the role of private companies like GN in fighting against stigmas surrounding hearing aids, the digital innovations occurring in the space, and her leadership strategy moving forward.   It takes an average of seven years for…

Denmark Denmark has long been at the vanguard of digitalisation, most notably in the form of comprehensive national health registries. This well-established footprint gave the Nordic nation a headstart in battling the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and beyond and can be accredited with Denmark’s relatively successful identification, testing, and vaccination processes.…

Global The oncology field has exploded in the past 20 years and pharma companies now have a wide range of approaches available to them as they look to identify, treat, and in some cases even cure, cancer patients. Here, five industry experts weigh in on the exciting new tools and technology…

Europe Building on points developed in his 2020 PharmaBoardroom interview, Professor Nicolaus Kröger of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) outlines the progress made by the multi-stakeholder GoCART Coalition towards greater harmonisation of cell and gene therapy research in Europe, the challenges of integrating patient-reported outcomes into its…

Global Walt Vernon is CEO of US-based healthcare facilities consulting firm, Mazzetti, and non-profit, Sextant. He is on the Board of the FGI and served on NFPA 99 ELS, NFPA 70 CMP15, and ASHRAE 189.3. He chairs the ASHRAE Infectious Aerosols Position Document Committee and represents the US in the International…

Denmark In a wide-ranging and candid conversation, Siemens Healthineers’ Tisha Boatman discusses uprooting from the US to Denmark, how Danish hospital tendering needs to evolve beyond price considerations alone, the challenges and opportunities of the Varian integration in her region, and shares some advice for other female executives in the medtech…

Turkey Overseeing healthcare for a population of over 80 million, Turkey’s Ministry of Health was put under the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we highlight four of the hot-button items on Minister of Health Dr Fahrettin Koca’s plate as Turkey emerges from the pandemic period.   Pandemic Learnings A few…

Germany Christian Conrad outlines his role as patient engagement lead for Novartis Oncology in Germany, how individual patient interactions differ from those with advocacy groups, and the current situation for cancer patients eligible to receive Novartis’ CAR-T therapy in Germany.   There has been a big change in the last few…

Saudi Arabia Medochemie’s Yasser Sabra gives a fascinating insight into the branded generic and value added medicine field today, including why the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to a reappraisal of medicine repurposing. Sabra also touches on the firm’s operations in the Middle East’s biggest market of Saudi Arabia, explaining why the Saudi…

USA Melanie Croce-Galis, RN, MPH explains the specificities of her work as patient engagement lead for Novartis Oncology in the US market, where significant disparities in patient access to information and to care throw up several challenges. Croce-Galis also outlines the work being done around CAR-T therapies and why integrating and…

Europe Cyril Titeux, senior VP mid-sized markets EMEA & strategic leader at Janssen, argues that the current focus of many health systems on efficiency, streamlining, and reducing spending is leaving them ill-prepared to absorb the shock of future crises. Titeux instead posits the need for the building up of resilience and…

Denmark Lisbeth Nielsen of the Danish Health Data Authority outlines the organisation’s purpose and mission, how it contributed to Denmark’s robust COVID-19 response, and the challenges of making Denmark’s comprehensive patient data sets available to researchers while maintaining patient confidentiality and trust.   One of the Health Data Authority’s most important…