MedTech Europe’s purpose is to make innovative medical technology available to more people, while helpinghealthcare systems move towards a more sustainable path.

Our Purpose

Our Mission

Be a trusted partner to EU policymakers and other key stakeholders

Foster the highest ethical standards in all interactions between the medical technology industry and healthcare professionals and organisations

Facilitate access to medical technologies for people, patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare operators and healthcare systems

Highlight the value and contribution of medical technologies, services and solutions, for patients, healthcare systems and society

Contribute actively to EU health-related policies and legislations

Be the European voice of the medical technology industries – in Europe and beyond

www.medtecheurope.org

What We Do

MedTech Europe is the European trade association for the medical technology industry including diagnostics, medical devices and digital health.

About MedTech Europe

Our members are national, European and multinational companies as well as a network of national medical technology associations who research, develop, manufacture, distribute and supply health-related technologies, services and solutions.

The MedTech Industryin EuropeCreating solutions fora healthier tomorrow

€110 billionmarket

in Europe

MedTech Industryin Numbers

50,000+ in vitro diagnostics

tests

500,000+medicaldevices

27,000+companies of which

95% are SMEs

675,000+employees

WE IMPROVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS & SOCIETY

Contribution of the Industry

WE HELP PATIENTS

• By diagnosing health problems accurately and at an early stage

• By replacing, repairing and sustaining failing body functions

• By monitoring patients’ conditions

• By accelerating recovery and keeping people healthy

WE SUPPORT HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

• By delivering timely and accurate diagnostic information

• By reducing recovery times and surgical complication rates

• By giving more time to health professionals to focus on tasks where they add most value

• By using data to improve workflow

• By developing valuable technologies that deliver efficiency

• By helping citizens to stay socially and economically active

• By preventing serious complications of chronic disease

• By bringing advances in big data to hospitals of all sizes

INNOVATION DRIVEN INDUSTRY

#1 in filing patent applications