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26/02/2020
Germany tops Innovation Index
Germany has been ranked the world's most innovative economy by the Bloomberg Innovation Index. The annual rating is based on a range of criteria, including research and development (R&D) spending, manufacturing capability, and the concentration of high-tech public companies.
11/02/2020
German hospitals at the forefront of digitization drive
Germany's government committed itself to digitizing healthcare in its coalition accord. One target set out in the agreement is ensuring that by the year 2021 electronic patient records (elektronischePatientakte, ePA) are available for all Germans.
31/01/2020
Germany's digital healthcare industry in focus
Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI) and the export initiative for the German healthcare industry, HEALTH MADE IN GERMANY, have released a video on Germany's dynamic digital healthcare sector. The film presents and explains Germany's success in the field – focusing on the country's innovative and …
20/01/2020
Find innovative, expert contract research partners in Germany
The export initiative for the German healthcare industry, HEALTH MADE IN GERMANY, is publishing the latest edition of its directory of the country's contract research organizations (CROs). Entitled Company Directory: Contract Research Organizations, the brochure introduces Germany's contract …
16/01/2020
MEDICA even bigger, more global in 2019
A record-breaking number of expert visitors attended MEDICA in 2019. Organizers of the world’s leading medical trade fair say more than 121 thousand guests from over 170 countries came to the event in November in Düsseldorf to see the products and latest innovations being shown by around 5,500 …
07/01/2020
Medtech sector in southwestern Germany reflects national industry
The southwestern German federal state of Baden-Württemberg (BW) together with its healthcare industry initiative BIOPro Baden-Württemberg GmbH has published survey results of almost all of the region's medical technology companies. BIOPro BW and the State Statistical Office carried out the …
19/12/2019
German medical technology industry awards innovation for patient safety
The German Society for Biomedical Engineering (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik, DGBMT) and the Aktionsbündnis für Patientensicherheit (The Patient Safety Action Group) have presented their annual Medical Technology Safety Award. The honor is given to young researchers and engineers …
13/12/2019
Siemens Healthineers on expansion course
Siemens Healthineers has acquired a majority stake in the US healthcare advisory firm ECG Management Consultants. The partnership expands the Siemens Healthineers Enterprise Services business with the aim of improving healthcare delivery, enhancing customer relationships, and opening new …
04/12/2019
German company set to market innovative new product in the US next year
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new system for treating heel bone, or calcaneus, fractures. The latest components in an innovative set of implants – LOQTEQ (R) VA calcaneus plates 3.5 – are produced by the medical device company aap Implantate AG (aap), which has its …
27/11/2019
Japanese visitors see German medical biotechnology at work first-hand
Japanese medical biotechnology industry experts got a good look at what German medical biotech has to offer early in November. The export initiative for the German Healthcare Industry, HEALTH MADE IN GERMANY and Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), invited a Japanese delegation to tour some of the …