Medical technology is wide and several definitions are available. One of the broadest is written by the European Commission available on the Eurcomed website (very comprehensive source of information!):
“Any instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, including the software intended by its manufacturer to be used specifically for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes and necessary for its proper application, intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings.”
“Devices are to be used for the purpose of:
- Diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease
- Diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or compensation for an injury or handicap
- Investigation, replacement or modification of the anatomy or of a physiological process
- Control of conception
This includes devices that do not achieve its principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, but which may be assisted in its function by such means.”
On this page I will make available all the reports on this topic with the goal of covering the maximum of interesting documents.
Enjoy!
EvaluateMedTech World Preview 2016, Outlook to 2022 – Evaluate Pharma
Pulse: medical technology report 2015 – EY
EvaluateMedTech World Preview 2015, Outlook to 2020 – Evaluate Pharma
Devices and diseases: How the IoT is transforming medtech – Deloitte – 2015
Pulse: medical technology report 2014 – EY
Swiss Medical Technology Industry 2014 – The Dawn of a New Era – Medical Cluster
MedTech in Review 2014 – Evaluate Pharma
