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Spotting Medical Devices Sales Opportunities in Colombia

GHI Analysis — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:38:53 +0000

One of the challenges with selling medical devices and medical equipment in Colombia is that even with tremendous experience, you can find yourself guessing as to what the needs are and who has the most need. Talented, knowledgeable professionals rely on their networks of contacts and what they notice about the marketplace. This makes sense and was a sensible approach.

These days, it may not be enough.

Global Health Intelligence built a database covering nearly 90% of the hospitals in Latin America, and in Colombia, we cover 74%. For each hospital in Colombia (and every other country) that we profile, we include more than 130 data points—especially what kind of medical devices and equipment that hospitals have. With this knowledge, a sales and marketing teams for medical devices/equipment firms in Latin America can see where hospitals are overstocked and, more importantly where they have the biggest needs.

Knowing that—as well as who to contact for purchases, which we also include in the database in many instances—your team can then identify strong prospects and sell.

Below you can download one of our fact sheets for Colombia that breaks down data on beds, rooms, different types of medical devices and equipment, IT infrastructure, procedures performed and more.

That will give you a basic idea of the data, but if you schedule a 30-minute demo with GHI, you can see for yourself how quickly this high-tech tool can uncover a slew of sales opportunities in Colombia and in many other Latin American medical device markets.

Bogota health clusters in Colombia ranked first in the ranking of Merco Health

GHI Analysis — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 01:06:53 +0000

11 IPS representatives from Bogota Health Cluster, led by the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota were rated as the best in Merco Health Colombia. Various Service Institutions (IPS), Health Promotion Entities (EPS), pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers were evaluated. Among the various medical device manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson secured first rank. Baxter healthcare secured 3^rd rank. Among the various pharmaceutical manufacturers, Bayer ranked first followed by Pfizer, Roche, Baxter and GSK, which secured 3^rd, 4^th, 10^th and 12^th ranks respectively. Among the hospitals and clinics, Sante Fe de Bogota Foundation secured 2^nd rank in the region followed by Children’s Heart Foundation, Shaio clinic, Clinic Country, Marly Clinic, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Hospital San José and Clinic West, which were ranked 4^th, 7^th, 9^th, 10^th, 17^th, 21^st and 23^rd respectively in the region.

Colombia Allows Faster Renewals for Lower-risk Medical Devices

GHI Analysis — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:17:47 +0000

According to news published by Emergo, the medical device market regulators in Colombia have begun allowing automatic renewals for licenses of lower-risk products. Colombia’s medical device market regulator INVIMA implemented a new policy (link in Spanish), whereby registrants that submit applications for renewals to the institute will be granted such requests within three days of receipt rather than within one to two months, as is currently the case for registration renewals. The new policy pertains to Class I and IIa devices.

Colombia prohibits surgical aesthetic procedures for under-18 children

GHI Analysis — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 01:55:06 +0000

President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia has sanctioned a new bill which prohibits surgical aesthetic procedures for all under-18 children. The procedure will not be carried out even when parents have no objection. The aesthetic procedures are used to achieve greater facial and body features. In Colombia, a huge number of under-18 girls undergo aesthetic procedures. According to the President, these procedures can lead to irreversible results, which alter decisions of life and the full exercise of maternity or health conditions that may require more surgical procedures. The procedures have risks that young people cannot foresee at young age and it cannot be justified under the responsible exercise of parental authority. However, the ban does not apply to surgery nose, eyes & ears, bad reconstructive surgeries performed by doctors, mechanics & superficial chemical peels and laser hair removal. Nor does it apply to surgeries caused by physical or psychological pathologies duly accredited by the respective health professionals.

Point of care devices reforming healthcare scenario in Colombia

GHI Analysis — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 01:52:44 +0000

The people and healthcare professionals of Colombia are thankful to point of care (PoC) diagnostic devices, as these devices have altered the scenario of healthcare services provided. Several hospitals in the country are equipped with the latest technology PoC devices that benefit doctors in decision making and increase the quality of patient life. These tests can yield results in less than 15 minutes after taking the sample, and are significant for making appropriate medical decisions. Upto 70% of the information used by clinicians to make decisions comes from vitro diagnosis. These devices have minimum operating costs and 100% accuracy in results as well. The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed seven benefits of the PoC tests, which include affordability of prices, sensitivity and specificity, easy to use with a few steps and minimal training, results in less than half an hour, highly portable and do not need large teams for the procedure.

Baxter set to invest more to introduce new healthcare solutions in Colombia

GHI Analysis — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 01:32:06 +0000

The CEO of US-based medical products company Baxter, Jose Almeida, on the occasion of completion of the company’s 60 years in Colombia announced that they would invest USD 41 million in the country and would introduce new healthcare solutions such as automated cycler peritoneal dialysis. Over the past five years, the company has invested USD 130 million in the country, which helped it to produce 26% more. The company’s production center at Cali produces 115 million units annually. 30% of the produce is exported to Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Central America, and the Caribbean making Baxter the second largest exporter of medical products in the country. Moreover, Almeida revealed that Baxter International seeks to implement innovative technologies, such as those required by military hospitals. He also emphasized that patents for these medical devices should be protected under the law, in order to maintain healthy competition in the industry.

Top hospitals in Colombia

GHI Analysis — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 02:22:59 +0000

As part of the annual hospital survey, GHI ranks the Top hospitals in Colombia according to the presence of specific modalities.

The enclosed ranking is a snapshot of key hospitals Best Equipped for Hosting Patients and hospitals with Operating Rooms for attending patients.

The complete ranking is based on the presence of capital equipment such as: Ambulatory beds, Hospitalization beds, Ultrasound machines, Incubators, Cribs, Gamma cameras, X-Rays, Computerized Tomography (CT) scanners, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Electroencephalographs, Angiograms, Echocardiograms, Operating rooms, C-Arms, Ventilators, Endoscope machines, Mastography equipment, Cobalt therapy machines, Linear accelerators, Radiotherapy equipment, Stereotactic mammography equipment, Picture Archiving Communication systems (PACS), Computers, Servers, Routers, Lithotripters, Ambulances, Hemodialysis machines and Hyperbaric chambers.

Please contact one of our sales executives to have access to the full ranking.