Reinvigorated German Innovation Strategy May Succeed Where Market Access Tools Have Failed

German medtech manufacturers hope that the fledgling coalition government's promise to give new impetus to the long-running national medtech strategy initiative will help achieve the very innovations that much-vaunted reimbursement fast-tracking mechanisms have failed to yield.

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...

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