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MedTech Forum 2019: Consumers And Wellness, Or Patients And Health Care?

Medtech's Future Hinges On How The Sector Can Change With The Times

 
• By Ashley Yeo

As health care transitions to digitally enabled wellness, medtechs will be missing a trick if they persist in holding onto the delivery, business methods and models that were the standard of the early 2000s. Heightened expectations of the new options for dealing with personal health mean that new opportunities are there for the taking – but industry shouldn’t let the tech companies have it all their own way, advised ZS principal Brian Chapman.

The MedTech Forum, Medtech Europe’s annual conference, was uprooted for the first time in its history, shifting from Brussels to Paris for 2019. The change of location worked well: by tacking the already populous event onto the back of the French industry association's (Snitem) annual start-ups forum (Journée Start-up innovantes du dispostif médical) attendee numbers swelled nicely. (Also see "French Minister Has Her Own Angle On the Success Of Medtech" - Medtech Insight, 30 May, 2019.)

And the French delegates offered fresh ideas on innovation and uptake, and especially on digital innovation, as the health care and medtech worlds turn – albeit slowly – to face...

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