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The reforming healthcare infrastructure and an improving economy in Brazil have made the country a potential market for defibrillator devices.

Economic uncertainty and swinging currency are the main obstacles for Latin American medical device manufacturers.

Healthcare is an economic and social priority in Brazil; and will remain one for the years to come. It is estimated that by 2017 Brazil will need an additional 13,000 hospital beds. [...]

In 2014, exports of medical devices to Latin America are expected to top $10 billion. Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia together accounted for more than 75% of imported devices.

Diagnostic industry majors such as General Electric, Agfa Healthcare and Toshiba at 45th Jornada Paulista of Radiology conference, mentioned the strategies of empowering their businesses to close [...]

Global medical device manufacturers have long relied on their core home markets for revenue and profits. The United States and European markets, with approximately 5,700 and 8,000 hospitals [...]

90% of hospitals in Mexico have operating rooms, with at least 2 rooms per hospital. Meanwhile, 8% of hospitals have Picture Archiving and Communication Systems. Global Health Intelligence has [...]

Hemovida web system, Transfudion module, a blood transfusion monitoring system developed by Datasus, the IT department of the health ministry of Brazil has been launched by the health ministry of [...]

Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, announced in January that her government would allow foreign investment in the private healthcare sector for the first time.

The Brazilian government has lined up plans to engage the services of a private medtech company for improvisation of diagnosis and treatment of the heart–care patients in the state-sponsored [...]