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MedTech Europe’s purpose is to make innovative medical technology available to more people, while helpinghealthcare systems move towards a more sustainable path.
Our Purpose
Our Mission
Be a trusted partner to EU policymakers and other key stakeholders
Foster the highest ethical standards in all interactions between the medical technology industry and healthcare professionals and organisations
Facilitate access to medical technologies for people, patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare operators and healthcare systems
Highlight the value and contribution of medical technologies, services and solutions, for patients, healthcare systems and society
Contribute actively to EU health-related policies and legislations
Be the European voice of the medical technology industries – in Europe and beyond
www.medtecheurope.org
What We Do
MedTech Europe is the European trade association for the medical technology industry including diagnostics, medical devices and digital health.
About MedTech Europe
Our members are national, European and multinational companies as well as a network of national medical technology associations who research, develop, manufacture, distribute and supply health-related technologies, services and solutions.
The MedTech Industryin EuropeCreating solutions fora healthier tomorrow
€110 billionmarket
in Europe
MedTech Industryin Numbers
50,000+ in vitro diagnostics
tests
500,000+medicaldevices
27,000+companies of which
95% are SMEs
675,000+employees
WE IMPROVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS & SOCIETY
Contribution of the Industry
WE HELP PATIENTS
• By diagnosing health problems accurately and at an early stage
• By replacing, repairing and sustaining failing body functions
• By monitoring patients’ conditions
• By accelerating recovery and keeping people healthy
WE SUPPORT HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
• By delivering timely and accurate diagnostic information
• By reducing recovery times and surgical complication rates
• By giving more time to health professionals to focus on tasks where they add most value
• By using data to improve workflow
• By developing valuable technologies that deliver efficiency
• By helping citizens to stay socially and economically active
• By preventing serious complications of chronic disease
• By bringing advances in big data to hospitals of all sizes
INNOVATION DRIVEN INDUSTRY
#1 in filing patent applications