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COVID-19 Information Hub

Throughout the COVID‑19 pandemic, the medical technology industry engaged with and supported healthcare professionals, policymakers, and experts in their efforts to combat the pandemic. The pandemic affected people's health and the economies of countries around the world.

Our members worked relentlessly to ensure that healthcare workers, patients and healthcare systems received full support in their response to COVID-19. The medical technology industry was committed to providing healthcare professionals, patients, and Member States with all the support they needed to contain and combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 information hub provides you with relevant information on activities of the medical technology manufacturers, the European Union and the Member States in addressing the Coronavirus pandemic. Scroll through the page to find out more about:

1. The role of medical technology in the acute management of COVID-19

Medical technology played a vital role in in the response to COVID-19. Whether by testing who may have contracted COVID-19, ensuring that healthcare professionals could work safely or providing citizens with protective equipment, medical technology was pivotal.

Three key categories of health products were critical in these times:
• COVID-19 diagnostic tests: you can learn more about the different type of COVID-19 tests available here.
• Personal protective equipment (PPE): this includes face masks, gloves, protective goggles and suits. More information on PPE is available here.
• Respiratory support equipment: this includes ventilators and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and is a crucial part of intensive care treatment.

Our Director General Industrial Affairs & Strategies, Jesus Rueda Rodriguez, explains more about these products and the way they helped in the response on our  MedTech ON AIR podcast (published on 13/11/2020).

To make sure that these products are produced and supplied to hospitals and healthcare systems, our members, both manufacturers and national associations, worked relentlessly.

As a trade association, our role was to coordinate and liaise among manufacturers, national associations and EU institutions. Trade associations like MedTech Europe were essential to make sure that supply chains were not disrupted, access to all medical technologies could continue, and information flows between institutions and industry.

As a European association, MedTech Europe supported these efforts. We coordinated and liaised among manufacturers, national associations, and EU institutions to ensure that supply chains were not disrupted and that access to all medical technologies could continue.

2. The role of medical technology in building healthcare sector’s resiliency

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to adjust the way we delivered healthcare. COVID-19 has accelerated changes in new and existing healthcare practices, as well as in the tools to ensure better long-term access to healthcare. For a deeper look into this, you can listen to the podcast (published on 1/10/2021) below.

MedTech ON AIR ·

How COVID-19 is shaping the future of healthcare delivery

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