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MEDICA 2019
Putting the spotlight on HealthTech
Health technology (HealthTech) is a key partner to healthcare services around the world. It enables improved efficiencies and effectiveness across a system, with investment in the latest devices, digitisation and diagnostic technologies delivering significant benefits to patient care, cutting waiting times and alleviating workforce burdens.
Representing the industry in the UK is the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI). Its role as a membership body is to support the HealthTech community, to save and enhance lives. With 300 members, including both multinationals and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), its companies provide a broad range of products into the healthcare system, from syringes and wound dressings, to surgical robots and digitally enhanced technologies. The industry is a UK success story. With 127,400 people working across 3860 companies up and down the UK, HealthTech provides vital technologies and services that improve patient outcomes and, critically, deliver efficiencies for clinical settings. Few industrial sectors rely on collaboration to the extent of HealthTech, with its proud engineering history, addressing challenges identified in clinical settings. Often, those solutions require a step change in how to develop, assess and deploy new generations of technology. Sixty years ago, this could have been the use of electrical stimulation; today it might be new diagnostic, robotic or digital applications. It is, in short, a fascinating, ever-changing industry to be involved in.
The UK is internationally renowned for its creativity, research, and outstanding talent.
From the ground-breaking invention of the hip replacement and the use of ultrasound in modern medicine, to the development of the CT scanner and development of the first multi- articulated prosthetic hand, it has a well- deserved reputation for turning innovative ideas into pioneering medical breakthroughs, which, in turn, become trusted healthcare solutions.
Medica 2019
A key piece of ABHI’s work is to cultivate a positive environment that encourages growth for the sector. This is enabled through the organisation’s comprehensive programme of international activity, which includes hosting UK Pavilions at some of the world’s largest health shows, dedicated HealthTech trade missions to key markets, and business development support through its US Accelerator programme.
In 2019, ABHI will, once again, be leading the UK’s largest and most visible Pavilion of health technology companies at Medica 2019. With thousands of visitors expected to visit the Pavilion every day, Medica is a prime opportunity for UK companies to meet their global partners in one place. Added to this, the ABHI’s publicity work provides UK exhibitors with exposure before - and during - the show.
The UK has long been a leader in healthcare. We have world-class universities, dynamic companies and the biggest single-payer health system on the planet, all adding up to what is an incredible ecosystem of innovation and
medical excellence. Paul Benton, ABHI
OCTOBER 2019
Through exhibiting with ABHI, companies have full access to a central support stand, meeting areas, working offices and an internet café. There will be dedicated one-to-one sessions with representatives from the UK’s Department for International Trade, invitations to exclusive networking drinks receptions and, for the first time, individual access to several of ABHI’s senior leadership team. The latter provides UK exhibitors with access to ABHI’s knowledge, expertise and support on topics ranging from digital health, regulation, policy and market access. Paul Benton, managing director, international at ABHI, said: “The UK has long been a leader in healthcare. We have world-class universities, dynamic companies and the biggest single-payer health system on the planet, all adding up to what is an incredible ecosystem of innovation and medical excellence.
“It is why overseas companies want to
partner with our UK manufacturers and it is the reason the UK carries significant weight when it comes to exploring international markets. It is, in short, a stamp of quality and we are proud to be at Medica once again to showcase many examples of this.”
Arab Health 2020
After Medica 2019, the ABHI international team moves onto Arab Health in January 2020. ABHI has been leading the largest UK Pavilion at the show for more than a decade, and the 2020 congress promises to bigger and better than ever before. A survey by ABHI, conducted in 2017, found that over half of ABHI’s members predicted their exports to the Middle East to increase throughout the next five years. As economies and societies in the Middle East grow, alongside life expectancy figures, there is a big demand for innovative UK HealthTech products.
Thanks to regular collaboration with the UK’s many outstanding medical and
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