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How To Jump Aboard The New EU Innovative Health Initiative Train And Where It Is Heading

 
• By Amanda Maxwell

For MedTech Europe’s Patrick Boisseau, the newly launched Innovative Health Initiative is a real “game changer.” In this interview, he explains how companies should get involved in cross-sectoral medtech/pharma projects that will revolutionize European healthcare innovation.

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Patrick Boisseau, director general industry strategic initiativesat industry association, MedTech Europe, spends 80% of his time working as the representative of MedTech Europe on the governing board of the EU’s Innovative Health Initiative, part of the Horizon Europe program. He believes the project will have a “major impact” on future healthcare delivery through the convergence of innovation in medtech and pharma on a scale never seen before.

Through cross-sectoral initiatives, the IHI aims to create “really new ideas, new contexts, new products and new solutions for patients”...

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