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The potential role of home monitoring devices in active and healthy ageing

December 8, 2010

As one of the baby boomers and firmly fingered with responsibility for both the healthcare funding and pensions crises, it is with a very personal interest that I look at emerging trends in care of the chronically sick and ageing. Age unfortunately means collecting co-morbidities, hopefully minor ones, and dealing with them in a way… » read more

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An often heard but seldom fully-understood story…

December 1, 2010

A new report by the OECD makes sobering reading as it makes the point that continued expansion of spending in developed countries is unsustainable. Reading the reported highlights, a couple of statements jumped out at me. “Healthcare costs are escalating rapidly, driven by population aging, rising relative prices and costly developments in medical technology. Public… » read more

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Throwing the baby out with the bathwater

November 19, 2010

Health and Consumer Affairs Commissioner, John Dalli, made a typically balanced speech about his vision for health on the European agenda at a meeting organised by Friends of Europe. The high-level summit entitled ‘An Innovative Healthcare Agenda for Europe’, was held this week in the magnificent setting of the Bibliotheque Solvay, in the heart of… » read more

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There’s a good future in (DG) Research

November 18, 2010

In a time when much health industry focus is on the European Commission’s Health Directorate, DG SANCO, EU Commissioner for Research Máire Geoghegan-Quinn chose Covidien’s 20 year celebration of their Galway, Ireland, facility (congratulations to all at Covidien) to emphasise again the value of the Medical Technology industry to Europe and the huge policy and… » read more

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Investing in education: Redefining strategy?

November 4, 2010

Any conference, congress or other important event usually involves some kind of a feedback exercise. Many event organisers even incentivise participants, for example through presents, in order to get this essential feedback which generally is used internally to improve the next event. Several days ago feedback figures of a specific scientific conference were presented to… » read more

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A blog on trends, issues, opinions and views about the medical technology industry. It is a collection of former Eucomed blogposts and brand new MedTech Europe ones.


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