EU Member States should invest more in innovative medical technology and diagnostics, as this will increase efficiency in healthcare and reduce the burden on society of disease and disability. Improving health should become an economic priority. These were the key messages delivered recently by Eucomed, the European medical technology industry association, and EDMA, the European in vitro diagnostics association, at their joint housewarming reception.
Governments must find new ways to work together and work with the key stakeholders in healthcare, including industry, ” said Dr Drago Cerchiari, Eucomed chairman and CEO, Sorin Group.
Quoting former EU health commissioner David Byrne, he said: “Health equals wealth. Europe needs a paradigm shift from seeing health expenditure as a cost to seeing effective health policies as an investment. Europe should look at what health puts in to the economy and what illness takes out.”
