Tagged with the Netherlands

Pharma Yvonne van Rooy, president of the NVZ, explains the patient’s increasing role as a partner in Dutch healthcare and how greater investment in ICT is needed for the patient to fulfill this role. She further discusses the need for more transparency in the pharmaceutical industry and highlights the need for all stakeholders in the industry to…

Pharma DB Schenker’s Bart Coenen (BC) and Vincent Coolen (VC) explain the company’s Vision 2020 and talk about the benefits for pharma companies of outsourcing their supply chain. In 2013, DB Schenker announced the company’s Vision 2020. Can you please elaborate on this vision? BC: This strategy is about being an eco-pioneer,…

Pharma Floris Van Haselen, Business Development Director Europe for O&M Movianto, one of the rare logistics companies to be fully specialized and to only operate in the healthcare sector, explains how the company wants to help its customers bring their products closer to the “Point of Care” thanks to its flexibility and expertise. With…

Pharma Roeland Van Dam, CEO of Bilthoven Biologicals, a historical Dutch company which remains at the forefront of vaccine production, explains how being integrated into the Serum Institute of India has helped the company to become profitable and consider ambitious new objectives. Bilthoven Biologicals has a very unique history, having started…

Pharma Rob de Roock, Director CL Healthcare for UPS Europe, gives us a brief outline of the current market dynamics impacting the booming European healthcare logistics industry and explains how UPS offers the best way to transform client’s supply chain into a strong competitive advantage thanks to compliance expertise and tailored-made…

Pharma Han Brouwer, General Manager for Actelion in the Netherlands, explains how Opsumit’s successful market launch has strengthened Actelion’s leadership position in the pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) field. He calls for a more comprehensive approach to the disease life cycle and for more transparency during market access procedures while the Dutch…

Pharma Amgen Netherlands is preparing to launch five new products next year, including their leading cardiovascular biotech product Repatha and recently announced the acquisition of the Dutch biotech Dezima. General manager Jasper van Grunsven explains the challenges of preparing for the upcoming year in the midst of structural changes to the…

Pharma Maikel Beerens, CEO and founder of Xilloc, a promising Dutch company that designs patient-specific implants, anatomical models and surgical guides for bone reconstruction or augmentation with the help of 3-D printing, explains how his company aims to provide patients worldwide with the tailor-made implants they deserve while reducing the overall socio-economic cost…

Pharma Michiel van der Veen, CEO of GenKey, a global player in biometric identity management based in Eindhoven, explains how both the healthcare industry and public health schemes could benefit from biometric identities to cut costs and improve funds allocation, and how GenKey aims to become the “Google of digital identity”…

Pharma Menno Kok and Roel Kamerling, Director and CIO of Medical Delta, a life sciences, health & technology innovation cluster around Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam in the West of the Netherlands, explains how this network aims to stimulate economic growth and provide healthcare solutions by developing, transferring and implementing knowledge in…

Pharma Bert de Jong, General Manager Benelux at Genzyme, discusses the solutions Genzyme is offering to patients suffering from rare diseases and MS in the Benelux and how these treatments add value overall to society, as well as the company’s changing role in the Sanofi organization with the addition of the oncology and…

Pharma Europe’s longest-standing Minister of Health, Edith Schippers, provides insight into the local healthcare system and continued efforts to improve quality of life for Dutch citizens, as well as revealing the main policy priorities of the Ministry for the Dutch presidency of the European Union in the first semester of 2016.…