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MTI 2022 Outlook: The Post-COVID Mantra For Medtechs: Prioritize, Optimize And Modernize

Industry leaders back at the wheel are driving health care transformation

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Medtech’s resilience and flexibility have been clear to see during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this forward-looking view for 2022, CEOs from some of the leading global medtechs share their perspectives on the present and the future, from company and health care system standpoints.

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Smith & Nephew plc best summed up the mood among medtechs with a message that would apply to companies serving COVID-affected health care markets, no matter what branch of industry they work in.

Wrapping up the company’s 2020 financial accounts, CEO Roland Diggelmann said: “Our first priority for 2021 is to return to...

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