View Of The IVD Horizon: How Roche Diagnostics Sees The Sector Evolving
Executive Summary
While the in vitro diagnostics landscape has seen players come and go, Roche Diagnostics has remained at the top. But the Swiss giant, like all its other smaller rivals, is facing a new reality, with increasing pressures to prove medical value, and a more stringent regulatory environment. Medtech Insight spoke to Roche Diagnostics' Jean-Claude Gottraux, head of centralized and point of care solutions, and Jean-Jacques Palombo, lifecycle leader for the company's cardiac, women's health and personalized health care solutions immunoassay portfolio, to gain their perspectives on how the sector has evolved and will continue to evolve. They also spoke about the company's strategy to address these changes and challenges.
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