Pharma Leading in some areas, lagging in others, the Italian healthcare logistics sector is on the brink of change according to UPS Healthcare’s managing director for Italy, Jaap Heukers. Each country has slightly different interpretations of certain regulations and compliance, given their unique regulatory development path. Coming from a global international…
Pharma Juan Fransisco Millán Sobaranes of Cetifarma, the council created by the pharmaceutical industry in Mexico for ethics and transparency, discussed the agency’s major milestones and its main priorities for ensuring transparency, notably with regards to patient groups, healthcare practitioners, and clinical trials. You were part of the initial team…
Pharma Mohammad Afshar, CEO of Ariana Pharma, shares his insights on the importance of decision support tools, big data’s impact on the healthcare industry, and the need to translate this data into the production of real products. He also discusses the challenges he faced as an entrepreneur in France and his…
Health The director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics in the Czech Republic explains his mandate to implement a national health information system and reviews its potential impact. He also identifies how his work will help solve the challenges in the current healthcare system and bring quality healthcare to patients.…
Pharma The following statistics provide an overview of South Africa’s healthcare environment, including population, life expectancy, ten leading causes of death, and healthcare expenditure. Click here to read more articles and interviews from South Africa, and to download the latest free pharma report on the country.
Healthcare The President of the Doctoral Council of Semmelweis University, Dr. József Timár provides an overview of the healthcare system in Hungary with particular reference to oncology and describes the challenges and prospects of medical innovation in the country. Can you please provide an insight into the history and presence of…
Pharma Prof. Dr. István Vályi-Nagy, Director General of the United St. Istvan and St. Laszlo Hospitals, shares his insights on running one of the largest hospitals in Hungary and the challenges of chronic underfunding, while also providing his personal ambitions for the future state of Hungary’s healthcare system. Prior to becoming…
Pharma Following regulatory changes, CSL Behring is now able to offer plasma fractionation and purification services to Italy’s public healthcare sector for the first time. General manager Oliver Schmitt discusses the added value and savings CSL Behring can offer in this service segment and the benefits its newest generation of innovative…
Pharma The Czech Minister of Health reviews his achievements in his first two years as minister and elaborates on the National Strategy “Health 2020” implemented in early 2014. He furthermore comments on the financial situation of the Czech health system and names spending as percentage of GDP in comparison to the OECD…
Hungary Chronic underfinancing is a common pitfall for many former socialist states and Hungary is no exception. Total health spending ultimately accounted for 8.0 percent of GDP in Hungary in 2014, which is below the average of 9.3 percent across OECD countries. Moreover, only 63 percent was funded through public sources. Furthermore, fresh data…
Pharma PwC Italy’s Rodrigue G. Schübelin talks maintaining Italy’s impressive growth in pharma production, R&D incentives, public-private collaboration, and PwC’s role within the Italian healthcare ecosystem. Italy’s pharmaceutical production increased by 38 percent from 2009 to 2014; what steps does the industry need to take to keep performing at this level?…
Pharma Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó highlights the significant role that foreign direct investments have played in developing the country’s healthcare and life science sector, while detailing the nation’s ambitions of not only pivoting into Europe’s hub for production, but also innovation. With over a century-long tradition,…
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