Tagged with Healthcare

medical devices Philips aims at becoming the leading provider of solutions across the full ‘continuum of care’. The general manager of the healthcare division in Mexico explains how the company has made customer service, education, software and integrated solutions the strategic pillars to find innovative ways to deliver healthcare. What are the…

generics At Valeant each region has a unique mix of prescription brands, branded generics and OTC products. The general manager for Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Andean region discusses the company’s objectives for Spanish speaking Latin America and how it plans to leverage the recently acquired Bausch+Lomb business to…

Siemens Siemens is the only company that covers the entire spectrum of diagnostics. The vice president of the healthcare division for Mesoamerica discusses the recent challenges the Mexican market has posed to med tech companies and its optimistic views for the coming years.     You were appointed VP Healthcare Mesoamerica…

universal healthcare Healthcare is one of the next items on President Peña Nieto’s busy agenda. The objective: moving Mexico towards universal healthcare coverage. The initiative was started at the beginning of 2000 by the previous government with the objective of ensuring in the long term that “any Mexican – employed or unemployed…

medical devices Mr Carlos Jimenez of B. Braun Aesculap sat down with us and shared his personal beliefs on Mexico’s market potential for medical equipment, how the country can create more momentum for the healthcare industry and the ethics and ethos of the company. What have been your milestones and challenges since…

healthcare The co-president of a research group dedicated to Euro-Mediterranean health sector issues analyses commonalities across the North African region and calls for a coordinated response to shared challenges. He also delivers a comparative assessment of the Algerian market. What is your opinion about the evolution of the Algerian pharmaceutical industry and…

healthcare The general manager for Cegedim Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean discusses how the company is diversifying its product portfolio to tap into new business segments and attend new clients in the ever-changing Mexican healthcare market. What are some of the most important trends that are taking place in the…

hospitals Representatives from a French/Austrian consortium that has just been awarded a contract to construct a new University Hospital Centre in Constantine reveal why this sort of turnkey project is highly innovative and represents a landmark moment in the history of Algerian healthcare. Could you please start by introducing your consortium…

healthcare ‘Health is the milestone of any society’. The former minister of health and former dean of Mexico’s most important university discusses the vision behind the creation of thought-leading institutions such as FUNSALUD and Inmegen, his perspective about the upcoming healthcare reform and the challenges to overcome. You are one of…

pricing Daniel Varde, Deloitte’s top consultant for the healthcare and life sciences sector in Latin America, discusses the interaction of global, Latin American, and Argentinian healthcare trends, and strategic techniques for optimizing a pharmaceutical firm’s performance in Argentina’s price-controlled, high inflation market. With the current inflationary pressures to reduce costs, why…

healthcare “Argentina’s health system is in agony” In March 2002, amidst an economic crisis and national healthcare emergency the then Minister of Health Gines Gonzales Garcia declared “Argentina’s health system is in agony… What is lacking is money, not drugs. Our country has the best pharmaceutical industry in Latin America. The…

investment Johannes Hauser, managing director of the German-Mexican Chamber of Commerce explains the role of the chamber in Mexico and encourages small and medium-sized companies in Germany to consider the country as a destination to expand their business. The German-Mexican Chamber of Commerce dates back to 1929. What are the Chamber’s…