Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
"Medical devices are not subject to any regulatory approval; [manufacturers] don't have to prove their effectiveness nor their safety." Would you believe that's what Professor Juergen Windeler, future head of the Institute for Quality and Economic Efficiency in Healthcare (IQWiG), claimed in an article published on 10 June in the German ...
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
As you may be aware, the World Cup in South Africa is in full swing and, although this may not be the first thing that comes to mind, medical technology is on the pitch – sort of. Football is a demanding sport that causes a number of injuries: the ankles ...
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
How important is the domestic medical device industry to the German economy as a whole? Germany's industry association BVMed did the numbers in the recently published 2009/2010 annual report. To wit:
Approximately 10% of jobs in Germany are healthcare related.
Healthcare spending represented 10.4% of gross domestic product in 2007, and it ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
An interministerial working group headed by Federal Health Minister Philipp Rösler is to draw up suggestions for health reform by the second half of 2010, states BVMed’s latest newsletter. The German medical technology industry association writes that according to experts’ opinion, the foundation of the reform should be a separation ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Following similar meetings in Paris and Rome, the International Medical Device Industry Compliance Conference moves to Berlin in 2010. The three-day event, which begins on 3 May, will include a focused discussion of current global compliance issues confronting the medical device and diagnostics industry.
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Medical technology trade association, BVMed questioned its members in October 2009 about the current status of the German medtech sector. One hundred and ten of BVMed’s 226 member companies participated in the autumn survey. The findings show that medtech companies in Germany are defying the economic and financial crisis. They ...
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
BVMed wants its just published 10 point plan to be used as a basis for the health policy discussions that are to come in the next few months. The Bundestag election on 27 September 2009 will give increased impetus to a new government programme, says the German medical technology association. ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
The world market for medical technologies is approximately 220 billion euro. Germany is the third largest market, valued at 22 billion euro, after the United States (90 billion euro) and Japan (25 billion euro), states the just published 2008/09 annual report from BVMed, the German industry trade association.
Healthcare spending in ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Taking place on May 12 in Berlin, the workshop "Environmental Law and Medical Products" will highlight the most important environmental issues for med-tech companies. Targeted at employees working in the fields of research, product development, pollution control, purchasing, regulatory affairs and marketing, the seminar will deal with the European Community ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
To what extent do medtech companies feel the consequences of the economic and financial crisis? To answer this question, industry trade association BVMed conducted an online survey in early March 2009. The results confirm that on the whole the medtech sector is well placed in the German economy:
-One fourth of ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
In spite of all the bad news, the Bundesverband Medizintechnologie (German Association of Medical Technology), or BVMed, has reinforced its statement from last year in which it predicted that the med-tech sector would remain stable and generate new jobs in 2009. The overall mood in the industry seems positive. A study ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
[caption id="attachment_3194" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Joachim M. Schmitt, BVMed director general and board member."][/caption] The German parliament has made it easier for hospitals to request reimbursement for innovative medical technologies, BVMed announced in a press release. The passage of the Hospital Financing Reform Act (Krankenhausfinanzierungsreformgesetz, KHRG) on Friday introduces a measure ...
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