Integrated Health Care Europe-style Is Here – Get Used To It
Executive Summary
The era of integrated health care has arrived, at least as far as the European medical technology industry is concerned, where the devices and IVDs industry associations have merged under the umbrella name MedTech Europe. MTE chairman Rob ten Hoedt explains what this means in practice.
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