Nederland investeert ruim 250 miljoen euro in ambitie om Europese MedTech-koploper te worden waarbij de beleidsagenda MedTech 2035 zich onder meer richt op AI.

At AdvaMed’s The MedTech Conference, CEOs from top medical device companies shared how they navigate difficult times, inflation and new technologies.

In today's edition: firefighters, medtech, medical deserts

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Medtech CEOs and consultants advised focusing on a core market and preparing for complex processes in a highly regulated industry.

Likita Care has won an engineering prize for medical devices designed to be maintained and repaired locally.

A homegrown medical device manufacturer from Niger seems an unlikely story in a world of massively scaled manufacturing and global supply chain optimization, but it was precisely this one-size-fits all approach that one startup believed was failing to serve local needs, opening up a niche in the market with regional scaling potential. Likita Care manufactures a suite of patient monitoring devices that track vital signs such as blood oxygen, heart rate, blood pressure and temperature, routing the data through an in-house software platform that allows real-time on screen monitoring, generating automatic alerts and using AI to detect and flag trends for further investigation. These type of systems are readily available on the medical device market. What Likita's co-founder and chief executive officer Mamane Kabirou Ousseini noticed six years ago while working as a biomedical technician at Niamey General Reference Hospital was that many of these expensive devices were falling into disrepair and not being used because of lack of replacement parts. Read More on Business "Imported devices that we have in Niger had a bad life cycle. So a lot of them break down easily. And when they break down, you don't have an ecosystem that can help the hospital...