Coloplast’s announcement is the latest large and significant advanced wound care (AWC) industry deal. As the high level details have already been thoroughly disseminated by press releases and news aggregators, our analysis of the Danish multinational’s acquisition of Kerecis will focus on: What makes this deal noteworthy in the context of the current advanced wound … Read More
Advanced Wound Care Global, our vehicle for bringing advanced wound care to areas of the world where the need and opportunity are greatest, was recently invited by Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management to share our thoughts on the potential for advanced wound care in Asia. Here is a brief excerpt from the intro: Asia has … Read More
Despite the overwhelming majority of R&D, regulatory, sales, marketing, and corporate finance focus in the advanced wound care (AWC) sector being on physical advanced wound care products, many of the greatest opportunities to drive outcomes–and profitability–exist in the realm of wound care service delivery. This concept was further developed by senior management from several of … Read More
We are frequently tapped by analysts, fund managers, investment banks, and other financial and investment professionals–from small independent funds through the largest global institutions. At the same time, our engagements are also filled by biotech, medtech, life sciences, and digital health executives, as well as provider and clinic networks, payers, hospitals, IDNs, and other healthcare … Read More
In many ways, the pace of innovation in advanced wound care can feel slow compared to other areas of medtech. As a result, many from across the spectrum are understandably confused by recent digital wound care news and developments. Relative to the rest of the sector, this segment is evolving at light speed. Many wound … Read More
What happened? Today (2018.07.02), Mölnlycke Health Care announced its acquisition of SastoMed GmbH. Mölnlycke is of course known in the industry as a top global wound care (also wound prevention and surgical) product brand, particularly in Europe and the United States. SastoMed, a much smaller German firm, was a subsidiary of SanderStrothmann GmbH, a company which assesses, formulates, … Read More
A quick update… We’ve been super busy empowering clients’ wound care businesses so far in 2018: Engagements in Hong Kong, Malaysia, coast-to-coast in the US, and now gearing up for some groundwork in Mexico and both Eastern and Western Europe, to name just a few. In between, we’ve been attending and prepping for key industry … Read More
The situation Last week (15 Nov 2017), David Bassin (Healogics’ former CFO), was appointed as the company’s new CEO. As the world’s biggest wound management firm and provider of wound services, Healogics has both a massive network and a huge volume of wound care and outcomes data. Understandably, healthcare executives, analysts, and investors watching this space have … Read More
Demographic and economic trends, combined with the sheer magnitude of the unmet needs in the emerging markets represents the largest untapped opportunity for advanced wound care products and services globally. Introduction As the business of advanced wound care in North America and Western Europe has boomed for the past two decades, most major wound care … Read More
The following is an excerpt from the original article, published in MedTech Intelligence on 3 Apr 2017: The attractive opportunities for medtech product firms to drive growth in the emerging and frontier markets are well-known: Rising disposable incomes and an expanding middle class, aging populations, and chronic disease prevalence (diabetes, cancer, obesity, hypertension, etc.), … Read More