MedTech Week Magazine 2018 At a glance
Highlights from the 3rd Edition of the Award-Winning MedTech Week Magazine
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I take this opportunity to sincerely thank all our members for their enormous efforts in making the role of medical technologies more widely known during MedTech Week 2018 last June.
Now in it's fourth year, MedTech Week brings out the best in the companies and national associations that represent our industry. Together, they have served up dozens of examples in unwavering ingenuity to illustrate the value of medtech.
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Bringing Sound & Vision to the message
Articles
Keeping you running
MedTech Europe go the extra mile in Brussels
Hidden heroes
MedTech is all around us but often goes unseen – and undervalued
Virus or bacterium?
Knowing the cause of an illness helps accelerate recovery, avoids waste of resources and reduces antimicrobial resistance
Sports therapy
Exploring the connection between sport, health and medtech
Race against time
The next French medtech Unicorns
Young companies rewarded for innovative new creations
Boot Camp
Start-ups find inspiration in six-month accelerator program
Food for thought
Access to innovation was on the menu at ‘parliamentary breakfast’
Extraordinary stories, ordinary lives
Meet the patients for whom medtech is a way of life
Tomorrow’s world
Digital health will boost patient safety and tackle infection control
Perspectives
‘Dialysis at home: savings lives, preserving autonomy’
Dialysis can be essential to the wellbeing of people living with kidney failure.
‘Committed to protect our health from Roberto Bertollini, HFE honorary president’
‘Thinking smarter & working harder to deliver Value-Based Healthcare – Together’
Michelle Brennan, Chair of the Board of MedTech Europe and Company Group Chair, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)
‘Artificial intelligence: The next revolution in healthcare?’
At the turn of the century, healthcare companies were at the zenith of an ‘innovate-manufacture-sell’ business model.
‘How digital technologies will reshape musculoskeletal healthcare’
Digital technologies provide an opportunity to move musculoskeletal care to the heart of value-based healthcare. MedTech Views spoke to Satschin Bansal of Zimmer Biomet about some of the innovations that will change the field.
‘Colorectal cancer: don’t delay diagnosis’
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world and the second most common in Europe. The disease can be fatal but early diagnosis and intervention are improving outcomes for patients.
‘Diagnosing STIs: faster tests for chlamydia and gonorrhoea can help reduce the spread of disease’
Advances in diagnostic technologies give patients same-day test results for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as chlamydia and gonorrhoea.
‘Asthma is a struggle – imagine carrying a 50kg stone around all day’
For people living with severe asthma, daily tasks can be a real challenge.
‘Digital health is here – time to take the lead’
How do we prepare Europe for future technologies?
‘Diagnosing Deafness’
Timely cochlear implant surgery can significantly help deaf children’s speech, language, cognitive and socio-emotional behaviour.
Science v diabetes
Charity football match champions diabetes awareness
Both teams lining out for the match between FC Diabetologie and FC Bundestag shared the same goal – to score a publicity victory in the battle against diabetes.
More than 6.8 million people are known to have diabetes in Germany, with another million likely to be living undiagnosed with the disease. On the even of the kick-off of the World Cup, the teams – representing diabetes advocates and parliamentarians – raised awareness of diabetes, as well as its diagnosis and control through the government’s National Diabetes Strategy.
‘Every two minutes, a person falls ill with diabetes,’ said Dr Martin Walger, Managing Director of VDGH – a manufacturers association representing 100 companies in the diagnostics and life science research industries. ‘Rapid digitisation of healthcare must be at the heart of the strategy, as the diabetes patient benefits from it in everyday life,’ said Walger.
The game took place in the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin, with VDGH on hand to support the players and promote glucose measurement technologies by offering free glucose tests. This illustrated how blood sugar levels can fluctuate during physical exertion.
‘Regular glucose measurement is vital for all people with diabetes, even those who are not insulin-dependent, because they have to manage their own disease 99% of the time,’ Walger said, stressing the importance of health insurance companies reimbursing accurate measuring systems.
The charity football match was more than just a game. After the final whistle the teams joined forces for a ‘third half’ where they discussed – in a political debate - tactics for beating their real opponent – diabetes.
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