Alex Zilberman, medical market development manager, Intel, talks about embedded healthcare medical equipment and how Intel technology is improving the functionality of these devices. He also says the biggest opportunity going forward is for the medical equipment to talk to each other and communicate over the network to provide information directly to electronic health records
Many industries in Germany are suffering from the economic crisis — but medical technology isn’t one of them. After all,people still become ill — crisis or no crisis — and doctors and hospitals need modern medical equipment to treat them. Few Germans are willing to scrimp when it comes to health care.The market for health care in Germany grew around 5 percent in 2008,to some 18 billion euros,and continues to look robust for 2009. Ziehm is a mid-sized company which produces X-ray machines. A global leader in its field,Ziehm develops and produces its high-tech devices in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg. Our reporter Dagmar Zindel follows the story and isn’t afraid to go where it hurts