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Singapore Regulatory harmonisation for medical devices between countries in Asia-Pacific has long been a challenging issue, predominantly due to the extreme variation in cultures, economic development, governmental models, and healthcare systems in the region.   Greater harmonisation would allow solutions introduced in APAC’s most developed markets to filter down to its…

Singapore Mervyn Lim, Vice President, ResMed Asia, shares the company’s journey through COVID-19 in the region, how the company is building on their digitalisation experience, his view on how different stakeholders have to come together to improve reimbursement, and the huge opportunity in a market where 80 percent of patients with…

Singapore Siemens Healthineers Singapore’s Ai Li Siow outlines how her affiliate has pivoted in order to continue to support its customers in what was an “unprecedented 2020.” She also explains how Singapore acts as a reference market for the entire APAC region and why the digitalisation of healthcare is here to…

Singapore Medtech industry veteran Sanjay Prabhakaran outlines the footprint and strategy of women’s health specialist Hologic in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region, how it leveraged its molecular diagnostics expertise to pivot towards COVID-19 diagnostics tests in 2020, and the leadership lessons he has learned from a 30-year corporate career with US multinationals.…

Switzerland hystrix medical is an online contracting marketplace for medical devices and replenishing/repeat purchase products in hospitals. CEO Philippe Hügli explains the company’s origins and model today, his ambitions beyond the company’s home market of Switzerland, and why a digital sales approach is core to “360-degree customer centricity.”   The consumer…

Asia-Pacific At USD 150 billion, Asia-Pacific is home to the world’s second largest medtech market and, with a CAGR of nine percent, certainly its most dynamic. Chronic underfunding of healthcare systems in APAC means that a region accounting for 60 percent of the world’s population only represents a quarter of global…

Singapore In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, Harjit Gill outlines the work of pan-Asia-Pacific medtech association APACMed, how COVID-19 represents a chance to change the global narrative on medtech in healthcare, and the key trends shaping the region’s dynamic market.   We often use the term “learning and leapfrogging” in Asia-Pacific,…

Norway Photodynamic therapy (PDT) firm Photocure is probably Norway’s most significant recent international healthcare success story. CEO Dan Schneider explains how the company was able to action a more effective global commercial strategy and carve out a niche in the relatively uncrowded oncology drug-device combination market.   Despite its technology being…

Norway Filip Standaert outlines the significance of the Nordic cluster to J&J’s medical device operations in Europe, how the affiliate responded to the COVID-19 crisis, and the ways in which J&J is aiming to contribute to driving efficiencies within the Norwegian healthcare system.   There is still change management to be…

Norway CEO Ellen Cathrine Andersen introduces Norwegian firm Epiguard’s ‘Epishuttle’ technology for transporting highly contagious patients, the crucial role that the product is playing in helping to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic across the world, and where she hopes to take the company moving forward.   We have now sold the Epishuttle…

Norway Dennis Hens, the Dutch CEO of Norwegian neuro-opthalmology device player Bulbitech, outlines the company’s journey to market, how its technology can support both optometrists and neurologists in their work, and gives an overview of the investment landscape for innovative medtech in Norway.   Norway is a very good country to…

Norway Dan Schneider discusses the continuing Norwegian identity of Photocure, despite its increasingly global footprint, the company’s strategy, and his background within the life sciences sector.    We are a flagbearer for all Norwegian life sciences firms moving from development to commercialisation and a prime example of what the future could…