Digital's Big Moment Has Arrived Say CEOs At Medtech Europe Panel

The waiting is over and digital technologies are being adopted at pace, according to a CEOs Unfiltered panel at MedTech Europe's 2018 Forum. Connected care is at the top of the priority list, say Siemens Healthineers' Bernd Montag, AdvaMed Chairman/CVRx President and CEO Nadim Yared and former bioMerieux President and CEO Jean-Luc Bélingard, although it's not the only pressing issue on the bill.

CEOs’ panel at MTF 2018: Jean-Luc Bélingard speaking with AdvaMed’s Nadim Yared and Siemens Healthineers’ CEO Bernd Montag to his right.
CEOs’ panel at MTF 2018: Jean-Luc Bélingard speaking, with AdvaMed’s Nadim Yared and Siemens Healthineers’ CEO Bernd Montag to his left • Source: MedTech Europe Forum 2018

Digital technologies, artificial intelligence and value-based health care both create opportunities to improve health care delivery and affordability, and also provide the tools to make those positive changes happen. These were absorbing themes for the record number of medtech industry attendees at the Medtech Europe Forum 2018, convened Jan. 23-25 in Brussels, Belgium.

Connected care is no longer the future, according to a panel of CEOs comprising Siemens Healthineers' Bernd Montag, AdvaMed Chairman...

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