Germany's national StrategieprozessMedizintechnik, a medtech innovation scheme set up in mid-2011 but not always given significant attention, is back on the agenda. It is included in the agreement that emerged several weeks before the new "grand coalition" officially took office in mid-March. ([A#MT098168])
This is much to the relief of the medtech industry, which seems to have finally lost patience with the current twin initiatives that promised to fast-track medical technologies toward reimbursement...