The Maltese EU presidency will seek more transparency in the way pharmaceutical companies negotiate with member states on medicines’ pricing, Health Minister Chris Fearne said in an interview with EURACTIV.
Healthcare systems must pay for the medical technology bill - but they should do it smartly, so that therapies, used in the right way with the right patients, can help save costs, MedTech's chief executives believe.
Small firms in the health sector are waiting up to 700 days to be paid by public bodies, John Wilkinson, chief executive of Eucomed, the European Medical Technology Industry Association, told EURACTIV in an interview.
Health care systems should reimburse medical devices to support innovation in this booming sector, which, according to the European medical technology industry association (Eucomed), is going to help eHealth and bring solutions faster than the pharmaceutical industry.
