Cap on va la indústria Medtech?

Medtech Pulse: Thriving in the next decade

Ara es parla de la indústria Medtech quan abans parlàvem de Medical Devices o subministraments mèdics. Medtech té més glamour.  Per a mi el llibre de referència per aquest sector és el d'en James Robinson, "Purchasing Medical Innovation: The Right Technology, For the Right Patient, At the Right Price". Ja té uns anys, però segueix vigent.

A data d'avui el que cal llegir és l'informe que ha publicat McKinsey per saber que té el sector al seu davant i com enfrontar-s'hi. La credibilitat que li vulgueu donar és una opció personal. Com a qualsevol informe de consultors, el manual diu que primer cal crear angoixa, mostrar la incertesa i les coses que no van o no aniran bé.

Un sol gràfic és capaç de resumir-ho tot, fins abans de la pandèmia tot anava bé, però després s'ha capgirat. La rendibilitat financera/borsària ha baixat del 21% al 2%. Elemental!. El que caldria és comprendre com la pandèmia va afectar al sector, i no projectar ombres com si l'efecte pandèmic persistís després de 2023...

Les tendències estan ben dibuixades, d'això en saben molt i per això cal llegir l'informe. Però llavors els consultors apareixen per assenyalar quines són les opcions de futur, i si no saps gestionar ecosistemes no ets ningú, excepte que els consultors (ells) t'ajudin.

Aquestes són les fonts d'ingressos basades en ecosistemes, diuen:

Aquí tothom pot fer les prediccions que vulgui per als propers 10 anys, i si no l'encerten ningú se n'adonarà perquè som poc amants dels arxius i hemeroteques. Si hi anéssim més sovint trobaríem grans sorpreses i alhora molts motius per no fer cas de prediccions.

PS. A l'informe no hi veig referències al desori medtech europeu amb una regulació esbiaixada cal al lobby medtech precisament, que fa que la indústria americana provi devices per aquí quan la FDA encara no ho ha aprovat.

Medtech on the profitable road

The 2013 Medtech Value Creators Report
Finding Sustainable Value in a Changing Market

Quick numbers from US stock exchange (2009-2013) for 65 companies in Medtech sector (medical device, medical equipment, medical supply and in vitro):

They generated a TSR (total shareholder return) of 14.8 percent per year. While in terms of value creation its performance trails that of other health-care sectors—such as health care services (at 21.5 percent per year) and biopharmaceuticals (14.9 percent per year)—it has come with less risk (that is, a smaller spread between the TSR values of the best- and the worst-performing companies), thus offering an attractive risk-reward profile for investors.

That's all folks.

Medtech market access

 Bringing a Medical Device to the Market . A Scientist’s Perspective

Pharma and Medtech market access

 Commercializing Successful Biomedical Technologies

Contents

1 - The biomedical drug, diagnostic, and devices industries and their marketspp 1-35

2 - Markets of interest and market research stepspp 36-62

3 - Intellectual property, licensing, and business modelspp 63-103

4 - New product development (NPD)pp 104-171

5 - The regulated market: gateway through the FDApp 172-225

6 - Manufacturingpp 226-263

7 - Reimbursement, marketing, sales, and product liabilitypp 264-316

Reading suggestions

Christmas reading suggestions:

'The Humble Economist' by Tony Culyer is now available to download for free in PDF, Kindle and epub formats

Waste, Economists and American Healthcare by Robert G. Evans

Hospital Board Oversight of Quality and Patient Safety: A Narrative Review and Synthesis of Recent Empirical Research

The Healthy NHS Board. A review of guidance and research evidence

Health Policy Basics: Health Insurance Marketplaces

The Optimal Practice of Evidence-Based Medicine Incorporating Patient Preferences in Practice Guidelines

 Fee Increases and Target Income Hypothesis: Data from Quebec on Physicians’ Compensation and Service Volumes

 The influence of cost-effectiveness and other factors on NICE decisions

 NHS Productivity from 2004/5 to 2010/1

 Methods for the estimation of the NICE cost effectiveness threshold

Effectiveness of Medicines and Therapies

 Elaboració d’un sistema universal de priorització de pacients en llista d’espera

La pràctica de la medicina clínica: art i ciència

La mort i l’imperatiu de recerca 

Can Mobile Health Technologies Transform Health Care?

Idoctor. NBC News

Should The Cochrane Collaboration be producing reviews of efficiency?
Mike Drummond, Ian Shemilt & Luke Vale, on behalf of the Campbell and Cochrane Economic Methods Group 

A new stream of work from NICE - Medtech Innovation Briefings

Investing heavily (2)

Global Healthcare Private Equity Report 2014

One of the adverse effects of financial repression is that investors may lose their compass in the allocation of risk and the prediction of rewards. This repression period for savers will last longer than anybody would expect, since the size of public debt in some countries is still increasing. Therefore, now it is the time for private equity to invest in sectors with greater uncertainty over profits that would be desirable in normal conditions. This is one reason, among others, why hospitals may appear of interest and this is precisely what happened yesterday.
We know from a recent report that while overall private equity investment increased, capital deployed in healthcare declined in 2013.

Investment levels in the medtech and provider sectors in Europe were down in 2013 compared with 2012, when these sectors saw three $1 billion-plus deals between them. Deal value in the provider sector was especially slow, coming in at only a third of the level seen in 2012, partially due to the dearth of large deals like the previous year’s Mediq (a pharmacy distributor) and Four Seasons (nursing homes) deals.

In 2014 the trend could be the opposite, at least near here. The closed operation (1$ billion-plus) will change the landscape of private health care for decades, and some shocks may appear sooner than later. Let's wait for the strategic responses.

PS. It may seem a paradox, but the unintended effect of financial repression by governments is a misperception of risk. Speculative bubbles before the recession have had the same effect. Beware of that.

PS. Regarding yesterday's case, I understand that antitrust issues will be taken into account properly...

Enciclopèdia de gestió sanitària

 Elgar Encyclopedia of Healthcare Management

 Una enciclopèdia amb aquest índex.

PART I SCENARIOS
1 Big data and artificial intelligence 2
2 Disruptive technology innovations 6
3 Genomics 8
4 Globalization 11
5 Medical tourism 13
6 Precision medicine 16
7 Robotics 19

PART II BASIC MODELS OF HEALTH SYSTEMS
8 Beveridge model 22
9 Bismarck model 24
10 Market-driven model 26

PART III EVOLUTION OF THE PHARMA AND MEDTECH INDUSTRY

11 Market access 30
12 Digital therapeutics 33
13 Biotech 36

PART IV FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH ECONOMICS

14 Baumol’s cost disease 40
15 Disease mongering 42
16 Moral hazard in health insurance 44
17 Quasi-markets 46
18 Supplier-induced demand 48

PART V FUNDING

19 Payment mechanisms 51
20 Sources of funding 55
21 Tariff vs price 57

PART VI HEALTH POLICY PRINCIPLES

22 Equality and equity 60
23 Universalism 62
24 Well-being 64

PART VII INVESTMENT ANALYSIS

25 Business planning of healthcare services 69
26 Sources of funding for investments 71

PART VIII LEVELS OF CARE

27 Acute, sub-acute and post-acute care 77
28 Chronic care 79
29 Home care and community care 83
30 Hospital 86
31 Long term care 91
32 Prevention 93
33 Screenings 97
34 Primary healthcare 101
35 Secondary vs tertiary vs quaternary care 104

PART IX NEW PARADIGMS

36 Access to healthcare 108
37 Co-production 110
38 Demedicalization 113
39 Evidence-based medicine 115
40 From compliance to concordance 119
41 Gender medicine 121
42 Global health 123
43 Health literacy 125
44 Initiative medicine 127
45 Integrated care 130
46 Population health management 133
47 Skill mix and task shifting in healthcare 136
48 Value-based vs

PART X PLAYERS

49 Boundaryless hospital 142
50 Community and country hospital 144
51 Intermediate and transitional care settings 147
52 Primary care center 150
53 Research hospital 152
54 Teaching hospital 154

PART XI TRENDS

55 Business models 157
56 Decentralization and devolution in healthcare 159
57 Multidisciplinarity and inter- professionality 161
58 Telemedicine 164
59 Vertical and horizontal integration (hub and spoke network) 168

PART XII BEHAVIOURS:

CHALLENGES TO LEADING HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS

60 Accountability 173
61 Accountable care plan and organization 174
62 Iatocracy, professional bureaucracy and corporatization 177
63 Political arena 180
64 Professional vs managerial culture 182
65 Professionalism 184
66 Stakeholder management 186
67 Teamwork 187
68 Turf wars 189

PART XIII PRACTICES

69 Change management 193
70 Disaster management 195
71 Leadership and leadership styles 199

PART XIV ROLES

72 Case manager 203
73 Clinical engineer 205
74 Clinical leader 208
75 Controller 211
76 Family and community nurse 215
77 General practitioner 218
78 Hospitalist 220
79 Medical director 223
80 Operations manager 225
81 Pharmacist 228
82 Quality and risk manager 233

PART XV TOOLS SYSTEM AND

PROCESS: DISEASE MANAGEMENT

83 Clinical governance 237
84 Guidelines and protocols in healthcare systems 239

PART XVI INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

85 Clinical trial 243
86 Health technology assessment 246

PART XVII OPERATIONS

87 Electronic clinical records 251
88 Patient flow logistics 253
89 Patient management 256
90 Supply chain 258
91 Techniques for process and organizations improvement: lean management in healthcare 261

PART XVIII ORGANIZATION

92 Clinical service lines 264
93 Converging trends in hospital transformation 267
94 Divisionalization, clinical directorates and Troika model in healthcare 271
95 Organizational culture 273
96 Organizational design and development for healthcare organizations 276
97 Patient-centered hospital and health organization 281

PART XIX PEOPLE

98 Clinical and professional engagement 285
99 Great Place to Work® 288
100 Magnet hospital 291

PART XX PERFORMANCE

101 Balanced scorecard in healthcare organizations 294
102 Budgeting (financial vs operational) 298
103 Customer satisfaction 301
104 DRG and case mix index 303
105 Length of stay 305
106 Performance measurement and management systems 307
107 PROMs and PREMs 310
108 Strategic control 313

PART XXI PLANNING

109 Strategic planning 318
110 Strategy making 320

PART XXII PROCUREMENT

111 Centralized procurement 324
112 Innovation procurement 327
113 Managed entry agreements (MEA) 330
114 Value-based procurement 333

PART XXIII QUALITY

115 Accreditation in healthcare 337
116 Audit 340
117 Quality management 343

Medtech regulatory affairs

 Medical Regulatory Affairs. An International Handbook for Medical Devices and Healthcare Products