Tagged with Medtech

LatAm Latin America is a rapidly growing market for the global medtech industry, offering significant opportunities. With a population of over 650 million people, the region boasts a large and growing middle class that are showing increasing demand for high-quality healthcare services and medical technologies. In recent years, the Latin American…

LatAm Guilherme Marques, president of Siemens Healthineers LatAm, discusses the health tech giant’s regional strategy, covering how the firm rides out the region’s economic and political storms, its participation in disease screening campaigns, digitalisation uptake, oncology integration, and much more.   Despite the uncertainty of [LatAm] markets – due to inflation,…

LatAm Latin America is a crucial region for medtech market leader Medtronic. Home to 20,000 of the company’s 95,000+ global workforce, 12 manufacturing plants, and ten commercial organisations, Medtronic LatAm grew by an impressive 24 percent last fiscal year and is becoming an increasingly important global revenue driver. The firm’s SVP…

UK Bernard Ross, a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years’ senior experience at private and public board level across multiple industries, looks ahead to 2023 and highlights five key trends to watch in the medtech space. With the COVID-19 pandemic having fast-forwarded the adoption of medical device innovations to solve…

Egypt Based in Egypt, Medtronic Africa’s regional vice president, Eman Ali, speaks about the challenges of building a strategic roadmap and local capabilities for the entire African continent from the ground up and adapting it to each country’s needs by working directly with Medtronic’s own team of 500 across 13 countries,…

Egypt BD’s Loay Badr outlines the rationale behind the medtech giant’s recent establishment of a direct presence in Egypt, the significant opportunities for medical device players in the country as it embarks on an ambitious healthcare transformation programme, and how the firm plans to impact and save even more patient lives…

China A roundup of some of the biggest recent stories from Chinese pharma, including Moderna’s refusal to divulge its mRNA IP, Advanced MedTech’s acquisition of urology leader WIKKON and Menarini’s AMR deal with SciClone Pharmaceuticals.   Moderna holds onto its vaccine IP and refuses tech transfer in China (Financial Times) Moderna…

UAE Rémy Levastre leads professional services firm WSP’s healthcare advisory services in the Middle East. Drawing on a diverse set of professional experiences, Levastre evaluates the influx and impact of cutting-edge digital tools into healthcare in his region, the opportunities and barriers to creating excellence in Middle East healthcare, and WSP’s…

Italy Medtronic’s Michele Perrino, Regional VP North Western Europe & Italy, Cardiovascular Commercial Partnership WE, outlines the company’s change in positioning from medtech to healthcare technology and the central role of Europe in that shift. He also comments on the trend towards centralised hospital purchasing and the company’s ambition to contribute…

Italy Chairman & Managing Director of B. Braun Milano, Klaus D. Pannes, shares the importance of the German medtech’s Italian affiliate, one of its top ten by third-party sales, which is celebrating its 100 year anniversary this year. He also describes how B. Braun is working to overcome the challenges of…

Olympus Olympus is a 100-year-old technology company that has revolutionised the world of cameras since 1919, and recently underwent a transformation shifting its focus entirely to MedTech. Ronald Boueri, Regional Division Manager for Middle East and Africa region sheds light on the company presence regionally, as well as efforts to position…

MEA The Middle East and Africa (MEA) medtech market is expected to grow from a value of USD 16.6 billion in 2019 to USD 21.8 billion at a CAGR of 3.6 percent by 2027, according to Business Market Insights. Read on for five crucial trends impacting MEA medtech and how the…