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France Dr. Julien Borowczyk, Secretary of the Social Affairs Commission at the French Assemblée Nationale, offers his insights on the upcoming changes to the French healthcare system. He walks our audience through France’s toughest healthcare problems, the recent Conseil stratégique des industries de santé (CSIS), and the potential for AI and…

Innovation Richie Etwaru is founder and CEO of Hu-manity, whose vision is to empower people to take ownership of their inherent human data.   The pharmaceutical industry has never seen the full end-to-end benefits of a world where explicitly consented data is available. And this can happen without disruption. Everyone can indeed…

Spain Madrid, Spain’s capital, is the city with the highest life expectancy in Europe at 85.2 years. Moreover, Spain as a whole is one of Europe’s best performers in terms of life expectancy, ranking fourth globally and second in the continent.   Explanations for this include the Spanish predilection for a…

Innovation Axel Schumacher, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Shivom, highlights the need for Big Pharma to adopt new technology. Of course, we know that pharma is often innovation-averse. The healthcare industry has been full of disruptions in the last decade, ranging from the explosive growth of medical devices and the…

Spain Enrique Ruiz Escudero, Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, discusses his strategy to maintain Madrid’s spot as having Spain’s leading healthcare system, the creation of the bio-region –‘Biomad’, and the city’s adoption of innovative telemedicine practices. You took the reins of the Ministry of Health of the Community…

Spain Ignacio Vega and Carlos Ibares Sanz of Spanish medtech Cardiva, explain the group’s origins as a distributor, the growing importance of manufacturing, and the company’s international ambitions.   How has Cardiva evolved since its formation in Bilbao in 1989? Ignacio Vega (IV): Cardiva began life as a distributor, primarily for…

Spain Ana Fernández of Théa Spain discusses the strategic importance of the Spanish affiliate – the group’s oldest, current trends in Spanish ophthalmology, and what differentiates Théa – as a family-run mid-sized company – from its competitors.   Having taken on your first country manager position in January 2018, what are…

Spain Spanish stakeholders have been trailblazing the concept of the “liquid hospital”, which envisions the virtual and physical expansion of healthcare provision beyond the parameters of the traditional centralized hospital structure. The aim is to leverage connectivity, telemedicine, the Internet of Things (IoT) along with social media to co-opt patients, families…

Innovation “Imagine a world where every single ingredient inside every single pharmaceutical you take is traced from start to finish.” We can all agree that the healthcare system in the United States is in dire need of an overhaul. Technological advances propel us into the 21st Century, but the way data…

Hong Kong Matthew Man, CEO of Hong Kong cold chain monitoring technology specialist Myndar, expounds on the company’s formation, its differentiating factors, and countering resistance to new innovations in the healthcare sector.   How did you identify the niche in the market for your cold chain monitoring technologies? I founded Myndar back…

Spain From Big Data to healthcare algorithms to the healthcare continuum. Philips’ intention to be recognized by citizens as the company that helps people lead healthier lives covers all aspects of health. In Spain and Portugal, Juan Sanabria’s agenda is no different—touching the lives of 3 billion people a year by…

Spain Margarita Alfonsel, general secretary of Fenin, Spain’s medtech association, outlines the sector’s success stories from the past four years and her ongoing priorities. What is the role of Fenin as Spain’s medical technologies association within the country’s healthcare system and what have been your most exciting collaborations and success stories…