Tagged with MedTech

Spain Xavier Carbonell, CEO of Palex Group, a leading Spanish medical device player, discusses how the company’s growth has been triggered by acquisitions to grow their portfolio and distribution arm, as well as how they are positioning themselves as a gateway for foreign companies wishing to bring medical devices to the…

France Pierre Moustial, CEO of URGO Group, explains the life-changing advancement in wound care treatments that URGO has been providing to patients all over the world as well as his upcoming plan to establish the company as a global leader by developing more innovative solutions in wound care and sleeping disorders.…

Malaysia Dr Hyzan Mohd Yusof, CEO at OSA Technology, tells the story of how he founded the company to address Malaysia’s unmet needs in medical devices as well as his vision on the next steps the government should take to boost the sector.   Having our own manufacturing plant is a…

Malaysia George Kazzi, general manager of Baxter Malaysia, highlights the main areas of development for his affiliate, including the introduction of more renal dialysis innovation as well as increasing awareness and delivering additional solutions in parenteral nutrition. He also explains the ways in which the country should promote more effective home…

France Pierre Moustial, chairman of MedTech in France, the association of medical technology companies in France, discusses the challenges for French healthcare start-ups to scale-up and explains why France has no medtech champion despite the world-class innovation in the country.   In France, we do not have a problem getting start-ups…

Korea Olive Healthcare is a startup developing wellness and medical devices services for the quantitative measurement of body composition, an integral part of the new healthcare paradigm based on prevention. Here, Dr. Sung-Ho Han, its CEO and founder together with Andrew Son, chief strategy officer, sheds light on the first two…

Korea According to data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, South Korea’s exports of products in the healthcare sector surged 30.9 percent in the first half from last year. Exports of drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics amounted to $7.1 billion (7.8 trillion won) in the first half, up almost 31 percent…

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…

Portugal Santiago Ruiz, entering his fourth year leading B. Braun’s Portuguese affiliate in Lisbon, highlights the innovation present in Portugal, B. Braun’s Vision 2020 and emerging trends in the medtech world.   How has the affiliate evolved over the past three years under your management? We faced two crucial challenges over…

Algeria Mourad Belkheyar, acting director general of Varian Healthcare Algeria lifts the lid on the progress Algeria has made in its quest to bring the most advanced radiotherapies to Algeria. He discusses the critical role of Varian healthcare in training engineers, operating, and maintaining such complex machinery, to improve the prognosis…

Hong Kong Benjamin Chan of MediConcepts – a Hong Kong-based medtech CDMO – outlines the potential impact of the Greater Bay Area Initiative on Hong Kong medtech, and the key factors behind his company’s success.   Benjamin, as an industry veteran within the Hong Kong medical devices sector, with also a factory…

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…