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

Industry Leaders Back At The Wheel Are Driving Health Care Transformation

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 Top 50 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 top-line growth and recapture the momentum we were building prior to COVID-19.” For him, improving the financial performance through operating leverage was paramount.

And with good reason. With a non-COVID care portfolio of orthopedic recon, sports medicine and ENT businesses, Smith & Nephew...

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